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

English: This week Blue group have been reading ‘Pip’s Pizza’ and writing about all of the yummy toppings they can have on their favourite pizza. Red group have been reading ‘ I think I want to be a bee’ and writing about what they want to be when they are older. We had lots of lovely suggestions: vets, doctors, teachers, pop stars, etc. Green and Yellow group worked independently writing instructions on ‘how to make a sandwich’ and progressed onto writing instructions for making a puppet.

Maths: We have started looking at division this week. The children have been learning to share given amounts between 2, 5 and 10 and checking that each group are ‘equal’ and ‘fair’ to get the right answer. Some children have recognised that not all numbers can be shared equally.

PE: The children enjoyed their circuits in PE on Monday to raise money for the NSPCC. Please return any sponsor forms once they are completed. Thank you for sending Class 2 children in their PE kits this morning! It really helped with getting to Worship on time.

History: In History this week, the children made posters of toys in different categories to make a class museum. They made posters about moving toys, outdoor toys, building toys, dolls and stuffed animals and puzzles and games.

D & T: In D & T the children made leavers to make a picture move. They read the story Jack and the Beanstalk and made a moving leaver to make Jack climb up the beanstalk.

Spellings: Spellings to be tested on Friday 17th November 2017.

Spellings 10.11.17

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: This week green group have been reading ‘let’s sing’ and writing some interesting sentences about their story and answering questions. Yellow group have been reading a non-fiction text about ‘puppets’. We then had lots of discussions about making our own puppets and which puppets we like best in the book. Blue and red group have worked independently in English this week, writing instructions. They started with writing instructions about how to make a sandwich and progressed onto writing instructions about how to make a wooden spoon puppet.

Maths: In Maths we have continued to practise counting in twos and then challenged ourselves to count in tens and fives. The children have related this to money and have been counting 2ps, 10ps and 5ps.

Science: The children have been investigating day length in Science this week. We have had lots of lovely discussions about clocks going forwards and backwards and how much daylight we get in different seasons. The children have been explaining how it is now getting dark when they come to school and when it is their dinner time.

RE: In RE the children went on a Winter/Christmas walk. They looked for signs around the school that winter was coming and found lots of lovely things e.g. frost on the ground, seeing their breath, colourful leaves, berries, etc.

Spellings: Spellings to be tested on Friday 10th November 2017.

Spellings 3.11.17

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: In English this week, green group have been reading the story ‘Jam’ and completing sentences about what they have read. Blue group have been reading the story ‘Chips’ and red and yellow groups have been reading ‘Red Ken’. Once the children have read the story with their partner and heard an adult read it with expression, they are encouraged to talk about the story and answer questions. We then write sentences relating to the stories.

Maths: We have continued with addition this week. The children have been using ten frames to make number bonds to 10 and 20, learned how to count on from a given number to add and looked at patterns to help solve addition sentences. We have also discussed starting with the biggest number and adding on the smallest number to make addition easier.

Science: We had a class discussion about the season we are in at the moment and how we can tell. The children then came up with a list of ideas to suggest what to look out for in Autumn.

History: In History this week, we looked at a range of adjectives to describe toys and sorted them into a Venn diagram. The categories were ‘adjectives to describe an old toy’ e.g. old-fashioned, rusty, chipped, etc and ‘adjectives to describe a new toy’ e.g. shiny, modern, colourful, etc.

Spellings: The children have all been working really hard with their spelling practise and this has been showing in their results. Thank you for your continued support with reading and spelling practise at home. New spellings to be tested on Friday 6th October 2017.

Spellings 29.9.17

Have a great weekend!

Miss Edwards