This week we have been thinking about what we have learned this year and as well as having a busy week of assessments, Year 1 have been thinking about all of the sounds they know in phonics and the rules we know to help them decide which sound to use in a word.

Here we are sorting 'ou' and 'ow' words .... we worked out that usually if the sound is at the end of the word we use the 'ow' spelling but if it is in the middle or the start then we often use the 'ou' spelling.

We have been continuing to work on our boxes this week to create our own setting from 'Where the Wild Things are' - these are looking absolutely brilliant and are nearly finished and ready to be displayed!

We have started to plan our own versions of the story, changing the characters and how we get to the place where the Wild Things are! 
We are drawing our own story maps and writing key words and sentences to help us plan out our story before we begin to write it up neatly to create a finished 'book' in the next few weeks.

Alex was in the Golden Book this week for consistently putting lots of effort into all of his learning and tackling a very tricky maths problem methodically and thoughtfully which allowed him to find the answer!


Home Learning
Due Thursday 5th July

This week your home learning is a Peter Rabbit 'telling the time' activity to practice what we have been learning in class about how to tell the time.
As always these are stuck into your home learning books but please see me if you need another copy or you are not sure what to do.

We really enjoyed having the Blyth Woods group in today to help us weed and mulch the young trees at the front of the school - thank you, and thank you to all the parents that came along to share this activity with the children.

They also helped us identify some of the different trees around the school grounds by their leaves!

We have started to turn our settings that we designed last week into 3D models using the boxes everyone brought in and have used lots of different materials and techniques to create trees, waterfalls, grass and vines.

The shoe-box settings are all looking fantastic and really unique and we are looking forward to displaying the finished models!

It was really lovely to have all of the Reception children join our class as part of our transition morning on Wednesday - it was nice to get to know them all a little better and we look forward to having them in again in a couple of weeks!

Home Learning
Due Thursday 28th June

As we have been learning the difference between fiction (made up) and non-fiction ('fact' or information) books this week, your home learning is a piece of non-fiction writing that you need to read and then answer the questions about what you have read.

As always these are stuck in your home learning books but if you need another copy or are not sure what to do please see me before Thursday.

We have been telling the time this week in Class 2 - first to the hour, then to the half hour - Year 2 have also been working on telling the time to the nearest 15 minutes.

We will be continuing to practice next week as it is quite tricky!

'What's the time, Mr Wolf?'

'4 o'clock!'

In science we have been thinking about animals and their habitats and we watched a video showing lots of different areas of a jungle. We then discussed what animals we saw, where we thought they lived and what other animals might live there and wrote a list.

We then talked about how it looked like the setting from our story 'Where the Wild Things are' and so we have started to design our own version of the setting, using what we know from the story and what we saw and learned from the video in our Science lesson.

The designs are fantastic - some really careful work went into these and we even wrote labels for our picture, using adjectives to describe what each part might be like.

Home Learning

Due Thursday 21st June

This week your home learning is an activity to help you practice telling the time, as we have been learning this week.

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

Welcome back!
We hope you had a restful half term break.

We have been continuing our work on 'Where the Wild Things are' and this week have been thinking about the Wild Things. We have written some fantastic descriptive sentences about the Wild Things from the story....

....and now we have chosen some different animals and have created our own Wild Things!

 In Maths we have begun to think about time and have been working hard to learn the names and order of days of the week and months of the year.

We have also thought about using language connected with time - Wednesday is BEFORE Thursday, Sunday is AFTER Saturday - and about activities and routines we have at different times of the day - we have tea AND THEN go to bed.



Well done to Mary for being in the Golden Book this week for consistently putting lots of effort and enthusiasm into all of her learning.



Home Learning
Due Thursday 14th June

Year 1 - This week you have a phoneme spotter activity - you will need to spot all of the different 'ay' sounds in the story ( ay / ai / a_e / eigh) and highlight / colour or underline them. 

Year 2 - You have a calculation activity - you need to work out the answers to each problem and then use the answers to help you 'crack the code'! Good luck!

As always, these are stuck into home learning books but if you need another copy or are not sure what to do then please see me before Thursday.

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: