In science we have been thinking about the weather and seasonal changes - the windy days this week were perfect for making and testing wind socks outside!

Our maths work this week has been continuing to practice finding fractions of shapes and numbers - halves (1/2) and quarters (1/2), plus thirds (1/3) for Year 2.we hav

We have done lots of practice to make sure our parts / groups are all EQUAL for each fraction.

We have been busy writing letters too, using our book 'Where the Wild Things are' to help us - first we wrote to Max to help him not to feel so sad and lonely then we pretended to be Max and wrote letters to mum to say sorry for being naughty and causing mischief! 

Finally we wrote letters to the Wild Things to explain why we left so suddenly and that we did enjoy our time with them, but we just wanted to go and see our family again.

In the Golden Book this week were Victory - for putting such enthusiasm and effort into her work, especially her writing, recently - and Siena for an absolutely FANTASTIC Big Write to retell the story 'Where the Wild Things are' last week - you even remembered all of the different punctuation we learned whilst practising the story! 

Home Learning

Due Thursday 24th May

Your home learning this week is some practice finding fractions of shapes and numbers, to help you remember what we have learned this week in maths.

These are stuck into home learning books as usual however if you need help or another copy please see me before Thursday. 

No new spellings this week, please just spend some time practising some of this terms words to make sure you are really confident!

We have been thinking about making our writing more interesting this week and adding lots of adjectives (describing words) and different punctuation to our work, such as commas (,) and exclamation marks (!). 

We have finished the week with a 'Big Write' retelling the story 'Where the Wild Things are' and I am so impressed with the effort some children put into their writing today, I am excited to read them all over the weekend!

We have continued our work on fractions this week and have been thinking about dividing or 'sharing' shapes and numbers into quarters - 4 equal parts or groups.

Last week we composed some music using some different instruments for our own 'rumpus' from Where the Wild Things are and this week we continued thinking about this part of the story in our PE lesson!

We choreographed some moves to go with this, making the 'music' with parts of our bodies. We stamped our feet, clapped our hands and experimented in lots of different ways to make new and interesting sounds.

  

We also had 2 very scary 'Wild Things' as part of this groups performance!!

Home Learning
Due Thursday 17th May

This weeks home learning is a fractions task to identify fractions and find quarters of some different groups of objects. 

These are stuck into your home learning books but please see me before next Thursday if you need a copy or if you are not sure what to do.

This week we have been continuing with our work on our book 'Where the Wild Things are' and have been using our storymap and some actions to help us retell the story - including the punctuation!

Why not have another practice at home over the weekend!

We have also been working on our descriptive writing and have been thinking about how the characters might be feeling at different times in the story and about how we can use interesting words to help us describe the settings and characters. We have had some absolutely brilliant writing this week and Year 1 have impressed me by challenging themselves to try to use commas and expanded noun phrases in their writing!

This earned Lily C a place in the Golden Book this week - I was blown away by your lovely descriptions Lily, well done!

We finished our week by discussing what we thought a 'rumpus' was - we decided we thought it was a bit like a party or a parade and then about what we might do, see and hear at a rumpus.....

.....before creating our own, complete with music and dancing!!! Great fun!

Home Learning

Due Thursday 10th May

Your home learning for this week is to complete the activity about the story 'Where the Wild Things are' - please do not rewrite the whole story, the template (in your home learning books) is designed to just record the key details of the story.

Please see me if you need another copy of the template:

As our topic for this term is 'Where The Wild Things Are', this week we have been reading the story and are starting to learn it, using actions and creating story maps to help us remember what happens and in what order. This will help us when we retell the story over the next few weeks!

... a forest grew - and grew - and grew ...

"Now Stop!" Max said and sent the Wild Things to bed with no supper.

In Maths we have been thinking about division this week - how we can share objects into equal groups. I was so impressed with how hard everyone worked this week and Year 1 were even challenging themselves to write the division number sentences that Year 2 were doing!

We have also been trying to keep outside as much as possible and have been enjoying some time in our outdoor area this week (when it has not been raining!).

Some children decided to practice writing numbers with chalk and then came up with their own version of hopscotch! The mud kitchen was also in operation, complete with a very yummy menu thanks to Sophie and Lily. 

Home Learning 

Due Thursday 3rd May

This week your home learning task is a division challenge, to practice what you have learned this week. This is stuck into your home learning books. Don't forget to ask before Thursday if you need some help with this.

Don't forget to practice this weeks spelling words too!

It has been great to have everyone back after a nice Easter break and to see the children enjoying all of the new play equipment in the sunshine!

We have been making the most of the lovely weather by being outside as much as possible - even in our maths lessons! 

This week we have been practising making equal groups and arrays to help us find the answer to multiplication word problems.

We went outside onto the playground and practised making these with some of our PE equipment and even used ourselves to prove that 5 x 5 is 25 !

Year 1 has some extra practice and used these skills to work out the answers to more problems and then start to record these .....

.... Year 2 then taught us how to write addition AND multiplication number sentences!

We have also begun work on our new topic - details are still a bit of a secret but the children are already producing some fantastic thoughts and ideas in class so I am sure we will all really enjoy the summer term!
It has been lovely to see the effort some children are putting into their writing this term already and am looking forward to more super English work in the coming weeks, which will be linked to our topic.



Home Learning
Due Thursday 26th April

This week you have a choice of an English or Maths challenge for your home learning - these are slightly different for Year 1 and Year 2 but are stuck into your home learning books.
Please see me before Thursday if you need more details of these or are not sure what to do.

Have a lovely weekend!

What a busy last week of term we have had!

We began the week with a 'Big Write' retelling the story of 'Farmer Duck' that we have been working on for the past few weeks - I was amazed at how much everybody's writing has come on over the term, well done!

To help Farmer Duck out with his jobs for the lazy farmer, on Tuesday we helped him make some Easter biscuits.

We had to put the recipe in the right order and then spotted all the 'bossy' verbs that told us what to do, like 'mix' and 'roll'

We then followed the recipe and baked and decorated the biscuits too!

Finally we used all the bossy verbs we had thought of this week, along with the photos we took as we baked, to help us rewrite the recipe for ourselves. 

We have also been preparing for Easter this week by creating Easter 'collage' cards which were very unique and colourful!

Today we also had our Easter bonnet parade, everyone looked fantastic in their creations and it was lovely to see the different designs and all the effort that was put in to each one.

After a short walk to the common we had great fun in our annual egg rolling competition too! 

I hope you all have a lovely break and return on Monday 16th April ready for the Summer term!

Home Learning
Due Thursday 19th April

Please don't forget to have some relaxing time with your families too!

Happy Easter everyone!

Thank you to all of the parents and carers that joined us for our 'Great British Spring Clean' on Tuesday afternoon - we managed to find quite a lot of litter hidden around the playground and school field!

We have been thinking about 'Floating and Sinking' as part of our topic work on Water - we talked about what each work meant and then predicted which objects would sink and float before testing them.

We also discussed how boats stayed afloat and had a go at making our own boat shapes from Plasticine!

Whilst continuing with our work on Farmer Duck this week in English we have been working on how to make our sentences more exciting and using some different 'time words' to start our sentences, to help us think about the order of events.
We ordered the pictures and then wrote a sentence or two about each one, trying to use some of our new words, like first, next, after that and finally. Year 2 challenged themselves and used some even more exciting sentence starters, such as while, just as and when.


Home Learning 
Due Thursday 22nd March

This week we have been using ‘time words’ in our English lessons to help us remember the order of things that happen and to make our sentences more exciting! 
For your home learning I would like you to tell me about something you did this weekend using some of the time words we have been learning.

Good (Year 1) -      First… Next… Then… After that…  Lastly…
  
Better (Year 2) -     When…    After that… / After a while…  Just as…   While…     Finally…

Don’t forget, your sentences should also have capital letters and full stops.