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.