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8 years ago
Posted on 16th Feb 2018 by

Half term Junk model instruments and Mardi Gras

On Tuesday 6th of March the we will be having a Mardi Gras celebration day. The colours of Mardi Gras are Green, gold and purple, and we would like all the children to come to school wearing one, two or even all of those colours on that day.

On the day we will have a parade around school wearing our masks and playing our instruments, plus lots more Carnival fun.

Over the half term we would like children in Class 1 to make a musical instrument to bring into school on the first week back.  We would love to see what they can create using empty cereal boxes/tubes/ food packaging etc.  Don’t forget to put photos up on Tapestry of their creating.

The children will then get a chance to show the rest of the class their handiwork and the whole class will use them as part of our Mardi Gras celebrations.

We are also collecting junk modelling so that the children can do more junk modelling during Child Initiated times.

For ideas – https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/musical-instruments

Thank you

 

Mrs Bowes

 

8 years ago
Posted on 15th Feb 2018 by

Chinese New Year

Class 1 enjoyed finding out about Chinese New Year today.

8 years ago
Posted on 14th Feb 2018 by

Pancake maths

This week our focus story is ‘The Runaway pancake’.  We have linked our maths work to pancakes.  On Monday we looked at our favourite pancake toppings and made a class pictogragh, we found out the jam was the favourite topping in the Class, and in 2nd equal; lemon juice with sugar and maple syrup.

The children have used the coins to buy pancakes, they had to work out how much they needed to pay using our pennies. We also looked at how the price doubles when the pancakes cost 2p rather than 1p.

Some children investigated how they could share 10 strawberries between 2 pancakes and wrote their own calculations!

 

 

8 years ago
Posted on 09th Feb 2018 by

Maths – early subtraction

This week our focus story has been ‘The 3 Little Pigs’.  We have used this as a basis for our Maths.  The children have enjoyed singing songs such as 10 pigs in a bed and 10 Little Piggies went walking one day and have been able to say and show how many are left each time.

Over the week they have made up number subtraction stories using the farm animals, used number lines to count back and have a go at recording their number sentences.

 

8 years ago
Posted on 09th Feb 2018 by

Read, Write inc

This week the children have revised:  m   a    s   d   t  i  n  p  g  o  c k u  b f e l h sh ck r j v y

Focused on:  w, th, z, ch, qu

They have used these sounds to form words containing these letters,  for example:  thin, thick, this, zag, zip, chin, chop, chat, quiz, quit

We have also looked at some split digraphs this week:

a-e – Make a cake

i-e – nice smile

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8 years ago
Posted on 08th Feb 2018 by

3 Little Pigs

Today we built some new houses for the 3 Little Pigs – A house of blocks, cardboard and straw.  We then tried to find out which was the best house.  We discovered our house of card was no good in the rain as it went soggy. Our house of straw looked good, but it blew down when we huffed and puffed.  Our block house was the best and we thought would be even better if we could cement it together!

 

8 years ago
Posted on 08th Feb 2018 by

Walk around the village

This week we walked around the village to find out what some of the buildings and areas are used for.  We chose a very cold and snowy afternoon for our walk!

 

 

8 years ago
Posted on 02nd Feb 2018 by

Special Places – school walk

This week we talked about our School as a special place.  We drew a map of  all the rooms we knew about and then set off to explore.

The children discovered new rooms and investigated the purposes of different areas.

Some children even managed to sneak into a very important room -Mrs Johnson’s office…

 

8 years ago
Posted on 02nd Feb 2018 by

Addition

This week we have concentrated on addition. We started the week by looking at one more.  Our theme story was ‘The Enormous Turnip’, so the children started by acting out the story and then working out how many people /animals were helping to pull the turnip the out.  We used fruit and vegetables and the farm animals to make our own addition stories,

8 years ago
Posted on 02nd Feb 2018 by

Read, Write inc

This week we have revised:  – m   a    s   d   t  i  n  p  g  o  c k u  b f e l h sh ck   r j v y 

New sounds:

ou – shout it out 

oy – toy for a boy 

ea – cup of tea  

The children have applied phonic knowledge to read,  make (magnetic letters) and write words containing this weeks sounds and form CVC words.

This week’s words:    red, run, rat, jog, jet, jam, vet, yap, yes, yum, web, win, wish, wet, sock