This week we have been making sure we always write 'SUPER SENTENCES' - with capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

The Elves have been leaving us lots of deliveries this week, each day we have had a new letter and story and sometimes they have left us other challenges as well.

One day we had all of the ingredients to make a marshmallow snowman - but no instructions! We had to look at the one they had given us and work out what we had to do. 

 Today they wrote to us with a HUGE problem - one of the Elves had eaten all of the Christmas cookies they had baked! They gave us the names of all the Elves that were close by at the time of the theft and 5 clues that would lead us to the answer. We had some great teamwork and problem solving, fantastic!

Well done to EVERYONE for two amazing performances of 'Wriggly Nativity' on Wednesday - we are very proud of all of you.

There is no home learning this week - have a restful weekend after our busy week in preparation for lots of festive activities next week!

This week has been extremely exciting in Class 2 - at the start of the week we found a mysterious door had appeared in the corner of our classroom with 'Under Construction' signs on it!

We thought for a long time about who might have built it there and why and thought it could be Elves - we wrote some letters to leave by the door asking lots of questions and kept a close eye on it all day.

The next day we found the letters had all gone and in return we had been left a letter and some presents and Christmas stories to enjoy!

Each day we have enjoyed coming in to see what the Elves have left us - lots more Christmas stories and a few challenges!

They sometimes leave some children gold chocolate coins if they see they have been trying their best and being kind and helpful too.

Here we are completing a treasure hunt - we had to work together to find out how much money was in each picture on the challenge sheet, then find the card with that amount on which was hidden somewhere around our classroom - this would give us a letter which spelled out a secret message once complete. The whole class showed great teamwork to complete this challenge, well done!

We are enjoying our Post Office where we can write letters to the Elves too.

We have been learning new ways of writing sounds we already know this week - Year 1 learned some new ways to write the long 'ee' sound....

...and Year 2 practised some more words with 'silent' or quiet letters in words with the 'l' sound at the end!

There is no extra home learning task this week - we have a busy week next week with Christmas performances and other end of term activities, so please have a relaxing weekend in preparation - please just make sure to practice your spelling words from this week and read your school reading book to a grown up, as usual!

Don't forget, our Christmas play performances start at 1pm and 5pm on Wednesday - we hope to see lots of you there!

 Year 2 have been learning abut silent letters this week.

g (gnome, gnash)
k (knee, knock)
w (write, wrist)
b (lamb, thumb)

We have been working hard to think about the spelling patterns of these words and writing them in clear, correctly punctuated sentences which make sense.

Year 1 have been revising the 'oo' sound (moon) and learning new ways of writing this sound 

ue (blue)
and 
ew (screw)

We have been completing end of term assessments this week so all of the children have been working really hard showing what they have learned so far this year. Well done to everyone for trying their best.

Amongst the assessments we have started getting 'festive' - we have learned all about the celebration of Advent and talked about how this is celebrated in different places. We also looked closely at the Advent Wreath which will be displayed in churches during advent and made our own paper versions.

Today the whole class worked together to create a paper chain that went all the way around the classroom! 
Great teamwork and enthusiasm from everyone - well done!

In the GOLDEN BOOK this week were :
Lucas for always putting in lots of effort and tackling any task with a smile and great attitude and Eden for persevering with her learning this week even when she was finding things rather tricky - well done for not giving up!



Home Learning
Due Thursday 6th December

Following on from our work on Advent this week, your home learning is a reading comprehension task. Read through the facts about Advent (which you should remember from our lessons also) and then answer the questions about what you read. 

These are stuck into Home Learning books as usual and there is a different text for Year 1 and Year 2 - please let me know if you need a copy or you are not sure what to do 

Parents - please could encourage your child to read as independently as possible and sound out any unfamiliar words, rather than just reading the text to them, thank you! 
Of course, if they get really stuck, please feel free to help them out!

This week Year 2 have been practising counting in 10s  from different numbers and have been thinking about different ways to represent '10s' numbers. 

We found that instead of drawing 10 counters / cubes etc we could make each counter / cube worth 10 (instead of 1).

Here we have used the tens frames to show this:

We have also been using what we know to find out what we don't know and work out number bonds to 100 using our number bonds to 10.

Year 1 have been working on adding 2 numbers together and solving 'missing number' problems using pictorial methods (drawing!) to help us.

We have been writing number sentences in different ways to, to help us remember that addition  sentences can be written in many ways. 

We have planned our new superhero stories this week - first we talked about our key ideas :

• Who is the new superhero? 
• Where is the story going to happen? 
• What is the problem in the story and how does it get sorted out?

We then transferred our ideas to a 'story mountain' and added a bit more information.

Finally, today we have been thinking about how we can make our stories as fantastic as possible when we write them next week

Mrs Flynn wrote her ideas down on the board and we helped her sort out her story so it was much more interesting and was written in sentences using the correct punctuation. 

We realised if we just quickly wrote our ideas down we missed out the 'WOW' words and lots of our sentences didn't make sense or missed out punctuation!

Home Learning
Due Thursday 29th November 

Your Home Learning is a Maths task based on what we have been doing in class this week. 

Year 1 should find the missing numbers and complete the calculations by drawing the dots onto the ladybirds.

Year 2 should complete the counting in tens number tracks - use the 100 square to help you or challenge yourself to try it with this covered up!

If you are not sure what to do please let me know before Thursday.

Finally, a letter has gone home today with details of your child's part in our Christmas performance - some ideas for costumes have been provided but please let any of us know if you are having any trouble getting together a costume and we will try to help in any way we can.

Thank you!

As part of our work on 'materials' in science, this week we watched a video of the story of the Three Little Pigs. 

We talked about why bricks were the best choice for a house (they are hard, strong, heavy etc) and why straw and sticks were not such good choices (fragile - can easily be broken or bent, not waterproof, could blow away etc). 

Then we had a challenge to try to build the best house possible from each of the materials!

In Maths we have moved on to writing addition and subtraction (+ and - ) number sentences, using the part whole model to help us.

In Year 2 we have been checking Mrs Flynn's calculations and proving whether or not she is right or wrong using drawings of cubes and counters to show our work. 
This has been really tricky but everyone has really persevered this week, well done!






We had some lovely home learning handed in over the past few days following last weekends Remembrance Sunday celebrations - these were some of the original and creative pieces of artwork that some children took such time and care over! 

Georgie, Lydia and Lilly all earned 'Super Star' certificates for their fantastic home learning this week.

Part of Lydia's poppy themed artwork

Georgie's 3D poppy picture celebrating 100 years since the end of WW1

Lilly's creative Remembrance paintings 

Dotty was in the Golden Book this week for an absolutely amazing Big Write last week, writing a new adventure for Traction Man - WELL DONE!


Home Learning 

Today the children wrote their final version of their Traction Man adventures they have been working on for the past week or so - it looks like he has been very busy!

Firstly we thought about our new characters ....

... then we planned our new adventures through role play ....

...and then finally we created 'story mountains' to plan the beginning, middle and end of the adventure...!

In Maths we have been continuing with addition using the part whole model from last week, working hard on writing addition (+) number sentences using these models to help us.

We have also been learning about Remembrance Sunday and thinking about how and why we mark this special date and the reasons for wearing poppies. 

We had some lovely discussions about the reasons behind the day and the children were really thoughtful and showed real compassion for those who lost their lives and their families that were left behind.

Home Learning
Due Thursday 15th November

This week we have been starting to plan our own adventure for Traction Man, using what we know about the style of the original story to think about a different problem for him to 'solve', as well as new characters and settings, before writing these next week.

We have role-played our adventures using puppets...

 ... in lots of different settings...

...and come up with a story plan!

In Maths this week we have been using the 'part-whole' model to split big numbers (whole numbers) into 2 smaller ones (parts). We have been doing lots of practice using cubes and big part-whole models to help us and have started to record some different number sentences to show our working too!

  

Home Learning

Due Thursday 8th November

This week your home learning task is to practice what we have been learning in Maths this week - using 'part whole' models to partition (split) big numbers into 2 smaller numbers (parts) and writing a number sentence to go with it.

For example: 

The part-whole models are stuck into your home learning books as usual - please come and see me if you are not sure what to do!

Please also take some time to practice this weeks spellings (stuck in reading diaries) and read some of your reading book.