We have done lots of 'finishing off' this week - in Maths we have been practising our skills ordering and comparing numbers....

....and in English we have been working on thinking about the settings in stories. We have enjoyed learning the story 'Oi! Get off our train!' and have been learning about using an exclamation mark to make our voices a  bit louder or how it can be used to make characters a bit more 'shouty'!

Why not see if you can name the setting (where the story happens) in your reading books or a story book from home over half term?


I am so impressed with some of the home learning submitted this week - lots of really great comparisons between old and new bikes and some super designs for some 'bikes of the future'!

  

We have had a great last day of term today with Class 1 (Reception) and really enjoyed making our autumn hedgehog rolls....

Rolling out the dough...

...shaping and leaving to prove (rise) ready to cook and enjoy!

....and we were set a challenge to work in teams to build the best bridge that we could which could take us on our next 'journey'!

Great thinking and teamwork!


Home Learning
Due Thursday 2nd November 

Don't forget, next week is half term, so see you all on Monday 30th October.

This week we have been reading the story 'Whatever Next!' by Jill Murphy and have planned and written our own stories based on this theme - I am so impressed with the writing produced by everyone today! 

We have continued our work comparing numbers this week, using lots of different resources and using the words 'greatest' and 'smallest' in Year 1 and the symbols  <  >  and =  in Year 2.

A super piece of independent work by Lilly!

In our topic lessons we have been learning about how bicycles have developed over the past 200 years!

We talked lots about what is the same and what is different between bikes from the past and the bikes we have now and drew pictures to show the differences.


Well done to Alfie for being in the Golden Book this week for having a great 'Growth Mindset' attitude towards his learning and showing such a huge amount of progress in just a few weeks!


Home Learning
Due Thursday 19th October

Choose 1 of the 2 activities below:

1. Design a bike for the future!
What will the bikes we ride 50 years from now look like? Will they look similar or very different? How many wheels will they have? 
They must still be powered by our bodies (no engines!) but the design is up to you. Please label your picture to tell us about your design.

2. Take a photo of your bike (or one belonging to someone in your family) and stick it in your book, labelling the parts of the bike.
Then write about what you like most about your bike and explain what is the same and what is different about it, compared to the bicycles of the past that we looked at this week.

This week we have been working on making our writing more exciting, by adding adjectives or 'describing words' to our sentences.
Here are some of our descriptions of our favourite toys!

My toy has black eyes and it is ginger.

My train is silver and red and it is shiny and fun.

My toy is long and brown. It is not furry and is skinny.

My toy has a light orange shirt and has a black nose.

In Maths we have been thinking about comparing numbers - in Year 1 using the words less/more than and showing greater/smaller numbers and in Year 2 using inequality symbols ( <  > and = ) - also known as 'Charlie Croc'  to help us !

We have had some children reach the first milestone on our reading chart, so a huge well done to :

Siena            Sophie            Dotty            Horace            Jack            Iris            Billy            and            Samuel

Home Learning
Due Thursday 12th October

This weeks home learning is a Maths task.

Year 1 should count the objects in each box and write the number, before working out what is one less and one more than this number. 

Year 2 should use what they have learned this week about comparing numbers using the symbols < > and =  to complete the number sentences.