On Tuesday we had a special challenge – looking after a new Jelly Baby friend for the whole day!

We gave them names and wrote some facts about them. 

We talked lots about how best to take care of them and how to be a kind friend. 

We also created a healthy packed lunch for them and designed and made them a home to live in too!

Creating a healthy lunch.

Sharing a book.

Designing and creating somewhere for them to live.

Building a house from bricks

In Maths this week we have been comparing numbers using words like 'greatest' and 'smallest' and have been learning about some new symbols we can use to help us do this 

<     >     and     = 

These are called 'inequality symbols' - but we also know this as 'Charlie Croc': the greedy crocodile that always wants to eat the biggest number!

 

Here is some of our work showing that we can use Charlie Croc (inequality symbols) to compare numbers - 

  

Over half term please take some time to learn your spelling words that have been given this term - these have been stuck into reading diaries each week and are also listed below.

You should be able to read and spell these confidently now.

Please also make sure to read your reading books to an adult - perhaps you could have a go at retelling the story to someone to see how much you can remember!

Have a lovely week - see you on Monday 29th October.

 This week we have been practising retelling the story 'Traction Man' by finishing our storymaps from last week and using these to help us remember the story.

We have also been ordering the events in the story and writing sentences to say what is happening in each in preparation for our first 'Big Write' today - I am so impressed with the effort put in by the children and am really looking forward to reading them all!

We have also been practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and have been making these number sequences using different resources to help us 'see' what they look like

We have been continuing our work on 'materials' in Science this week, thinking about what objects are made from which materials - and why that might be!

Home Learning

Due Thursday 18th October

This is also stuck into home learning books as usual - 

This week we have been continuing to get to know the story 'Traction Man' by adding some actions to different parts of the story.

We have also started to create 'story maps' to help us retell the story in the right order - we will be continuing these next week before having a go at writing it ourselves!

In Maths we have been busy practising our counting and ordering of numbers, filling in missing numbers and finding one more in Year 1 and showing patterns and sequences using Dienes ("chips and peas" - tens and ones) in Year 2.

We have also all been enjoying learning to count in 10's using a song and video to help us!

In science we have started to think about different materials (what things are made out of) and have been looking at lots of objects and deciding what materials they are made of, before describing what they looked/felt like using lots of different adjectives.

We also had to sort a box of objects by the material they are made from - wood, metal, plastic, fabric or stone.

This week we got the instruments out in music and explored the different sounds they could make. We tried playing softly and loudly and then practised making different rhythms together. 

Golden Book 

In the Golden Book this week were Lilly and Ruby for consistently trying hard with ALL of their learning over the past few weeks - WELL DONE!

We also said a huge well done to TJ who has just joined us and has been trying hard to remember all of our new routines and do his best with his work in Class!

Home Learning 

Due Thursday 11th October

Home Learning books have been sent home today with an activity to complete based on the work we have been doing in Maths this week. 

These are stuck into home learning books but please feel free to come and see me if you are not sure what to do.

Please also try to cover your new book this weekend (for example in wrapping paper or sticky-backed plastic) to protect it and keep it looking nice for the year ahead.