English: Blue and Red group have been reading their RWI books this week and completing work based on their stories. Green and Yellow group have worked independently writing poems and descriptive sentences about the Rain forest. Thursday and Fridays lessons were based on the story Beegu, we discussed Beegu’s feelings at different stages in the story and then we have written character descriptions.

Maths: In maths the children have continued to work on addition, looking at their bonds to 10 in more detail and later in the week we have focused on the greater than, less than and equal too symbols.

Science: The children began their Science topic this week ‘Everyday materials’ – they started with looking at a range of materials and began to describe them.

Geography: In Geography, we looked at Mangroves in Indonesia and the different features we see when looking at a Mangrove e.g. tidal water, high roots, animals and insects, etc.

PE: On Monday the children made their own gymnastic sequences and performed them to their peers. Today the children had Mr Bebb teaching them ball games.

Spellings: To be tested 26.1.18

Spellings 19.1.18

Next Friday: On Friday morning I’d like to take the children outside for English into the Forest School area to complete some activities on our class story ‘Beegu’. Please could the children bring warm, OLD clothing (we may get muddy), a waterproof coat, wellies/walking boots and their uniform to change back into later in the day.

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: This week in English we have started to look at a new book, called Beegu, that we will continue to focus on every Thursday and Friday. The children have listened to part of the story and discussed it so far in a lot of detail, they have acted out the first few pages and created freeze frames during their role play. Today they began to make predictions about what may happen later in the story.

Maths: We have began to look at addition this week and have been recapping on their number bonds to 10. This will continue next week with the children learning how to partition numbers into parts to make a whole number.

Geography: The children were introduced to our new topic ‘Jungles and Rain forests’ on Thursday. To begin the lesson, the children were asked to write down as many facts as possible about jungles and rain forests, I am very impressed with what they already know! We then looked at jungles around the world and learned that they are mainly found near the equator as this has warmer, wetter conditions.

Spellings: To be tested Friday 12th January 2018.

Spellings 5.1.18

I sent home a curriculum letter yesterday with the children, providing an overview of the lessons this term. Here is a copy in case it didn’t find its way home!

Curriculum letter spring 2018

The children made us very proud this morning in their Nativity! I want to say a massive ‘WELL DONE!’ and thank you for your continued support with this. We hope to see you Monday at 6pm for the final performance.

Have a great weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: This week Yellow and Green group have been working on their RWI books. Blue and Red group have been working independently on the story ‘The Jolly Postman’. They have written a letter to Goldilocks as Baby Bear, made a new poster for the Wicked Witch advertising witch supplies and written a postcard like the one in the story from Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have also learned how to change a verb to past tense by adding the suffix ‘ed’.

Maths: This week the children have been learning about 3D shapes (cubes, cuboids, cylinders, cones, spheres and pyramids). We have been looking at the shapes of their faces, their edges and vertices (corners).

D&T: The children made a wheel mechanism in D&T, this was to change the size of the wolf in the story Little Red Riding Hood – as they spin the wheel, the wolf grew in size.

RE: Class 2 have been thinking about the question ‘Why is Christmas important to Christians?’ and had a great class discussion. They have also been acting out parts of the Nativity story.

Nativity: Just a reminder that costumes for the Nativity are due in on Monday. If you need any support with supplying an outfit, please do not hesitate in coming to see me. Please could the children’s costumes be handed in, in a clearly labelled bag. Thank you!

Spellings: To be tested Friday 8th December 2017.

Spellings 1.12.17

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: This week the children have been continuing our routine with RWI. Two groups have been reading their RWI books and writing about it whilst the other two groups have been independently working on the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. The children have also been learning how to add ‘ing’ to a verb and using these in sentences and today focused on adding ‘s’ to a word to change it from singular to plural e.g. one cat – two cats.

Maths: We have been looking at 2D shapes this week. The children have been learning how to identify circles, squares, oblongs and triangles and what properties these shapes have. They have also been identifying these shapes in everyday life e.g. our doors are oblong and the clock in the classroom is a circle.

Science: We had lots of fun on Tuesday walking around Bicton village finding things that remind us of Autumn. The children found lots of lovely, colourful leaves, berries, etc and put these in the middle of the table to inspire their creative writing. The children used lots of lovely adjectives to describe their findings.

Spellings: To be tested Friday 1st December 2017.

Spellings 24.11.17

Nativity: The children will be visiting the church on Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon next week. Please could you ensure that the children have a warm coat/clothing in school all week as the church is very cold. If they still need their lines to support them please could these also be brought in next week. Thank you for your support.

Have a great weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: This week the children have been reading the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. Two independent groups have sequenced the story, written character descriptions and written their own version of the story. Yellow group have been reading pink RWI book ‘Scruffy Ted’ and Green group have been reading red RWI book ‘Lets swim’.

Maths: In maths the children have been continuing their sharing and grouping and writing sentences such as ‘8 shared by 2 is 4′ and ’15 split into groups of 5 is 3’.

Science: In Science this week, the children made rain gauges to measure how much rainfall we have in autumn. They had lots of fun placing these in different areas in the wild life area. They will revisit these during next weeks Science lesson.

History: The children answered lots of questions about what they have learned about toys so far and played games about their knowledge. Today the children imagined they were a child in the past waking up on the morning of their birthday/Christmas morning and described the toys that they would get.

Spellings: To be tested on Friday 24th November 2017.

Spellings 17.11.17

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards