We have done lots of 'finishing off' this week - in Maths we have been practising our skills ordering and comparing numbers....

....and in English we have been working on thinking about the settings in stories. We have enjoyed learning the story 'Oi! Get off our train!' and have been learning about using an exclamation mark to make our voices a  bit louder or how it can be used to make characters a bit more 'shouty'!

Why not see if you can name the setting (where the story happens) in your reading books or a story book from home over half term?


I am so impressed with some of the home learning submitted this week - lots of really great comparisons between old and new bikes and some super designs for some 'bikes of the future'!

  

We have had a great last day of term today with Class 1 (Reception) and really enjoyed making our autumn hedgehog rolls....

Rolling out the dough...

...shaping and leaving to prove (rise) ready to cook and enjoy!

....and we were set a challenge to work in teams to build the best bridge that we could which could take us on our next 'journey'!

Great thinking and teamwork!


Home Learning
Due Thursday 2nd November 

Don't forget, next week is half term, so see you all on Monday 30th October.

This week we have been reading the story 'Whatever Next!' by Jill Murphy and have planned and written our own stories based on this theme - I am so impressed with the writing produced by everyone today! 

We have continued our work comparing numbers this week, using lots of different resources and using the words 'greatest' and 'smallest' in Year 1 and the symbols  <  >  and =  in Year 2.

A super piece of independent work by Lilly!

In our topic lessons we have been learning about how bicycles have developed over the past 200 years!

We talked lots about what is the same and what is different between bikes from the past and the bikes we have now and drew pictures to show the differences.


Well done to Alfie for being in the Golden Book this week for having a great 'Growth Mindset' attitude towards his learning and showing such a huge amount of progress in just a few weeks!


Home Learning
Due Thursday 19th October

Choose 1 of the 2 activities below:

1. Design a bike for the future!
What will the bikes we ride 50 years from now look like? Will they look similar or very different? How many wheels will they have? 
They must still be powered by our bodies (no engines!) but the design is up to you. Please label your picture to tell us about your design.

2. Take a photo of your bike (or one belonging to someone in your family) and stick it in your book, labelling the parts of the bike.
Then write about what you like most about your bike and explain what is the same and what is different about it, compared to the bicycles of the past that we looked at this week.

This week we have been working on making our writing more exciting, by adding adjectives or 'describing words' to our sentences.
Here are some of our descriptions of our favourite toys!

My toy has black eyes and it is ginger.

My train is silver and red and it is shiny and fun.

My toy is long and brown. It is not furry and is skinny.

My toy has a light orange shirt and has a black nose.

In Maths we have been thinking about comparing numbers - in Year 1 using the words less/more than and showing greater/smaller numbers and in Year 2 using inequality symbols ( <  > and = ) - also known as 'Charlie Croc'  to help us !

We have had some children reach the first milestone on our reading chart, so a huge well done to :

Siena            Sophie            Dotty            Horace            Jack            Iris            Billy            and            Samuel

Home Learning
Due Thursday 12th October

This weeks home learning is a Maths task.

Year 1 should count the objects in each box and write the number, before working out what is one less and one more than this number. 

Year 2 should use what they have learned this week about comparing numbers using the symbols < > and =  to complete the number sentences.

This week we have been reading the story 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea' by Judith Kerr.

We have looked at the pictures closely and have acted out the story in small groups.

One day there was a ring on the doorbell...there was a tiger at the door!

Drinking all of the water from the tap....

We then planned and wrote our own short stories, this time about an animal that turns up at OUR doors and causes a few problems...!

On Tuesday we were Nature Detectives and went around the school grounds to see what creatures live here with us. We talked a lot about their different habitats (homes) and why they might like to live where they do. 

Look who we found...!

Home Learning
Due Thursday 5th October

This week your home learning is to find words using the sounds we have been focusing on this week: 
Year 1 - igh (as in night) oo (as in spoon or book) oa (as in boat) and ar (as in car)
Year 2 - different ways of writing the 'air' sound (air as in chair, ear as in bear or are as in share)

Can you find any words with these sounds in in your reading book or in a book of your own from home? What words can you remember from our phonics sessions this week?

Thank you so much to everyone that came to our Harvest Festival this morning and to all the food donated!

In our English this week we have been learning the story of 'The Enormous Turnip' and adding some actions to help us remember the story and characters. We have sequenced pictures and added labels and captions and today did our first 'Big Write', retelling the story. 
Some children produced some absolutely lovely work which they should be very proud of - especially Year 1 who worked really hard on their writing today!

Look out for some examples on our 'Wonderful Writing' walls!

In Maths we have been practising counting forwards AND backwards and showing numbers in different ways using lots of resources and drawing our own 'representations'.

Year 1 have been working with smaller numbers ....
Here some children showed worked together to show numbers to 10 in 4 different ways!

Year 2 have been challenging themselves with some bigger 2-digit numbers....

                                Can you show 67 in 3 ways?

Yes!

Yes!

Home Learning
Due Thursday 28th September

This week we have been reading the story ‘The Enormous Turnip’ and thinking about harvest time.
Please choose any 2 of the challenges based on this theme (stuck in your books) to complete this week.

Welcome back everyone and well done for settling in to your new class with your new friends so well! 

Each morning we have a 'check-in circle' and we spend some time listening to how we are all feeling that day. We know we do not have to say anything if we do not want but our friends will always listen to us if we do.
We are pleased to hear so many children say they are happy and enjoying their time in Class 2 so far!

In Maths this week we have been focusing on number - counting forwards and backwards from 0 or 1 and thinking about the order of numbers.
We have also been grouping and counting objects and using lots of resources to show what numbers might 'look like'.

Here are some fantastic examples from today's lesson:
The challenge was to show a number in at least 4 ways - some of us used counters or cubes, or even our fingers!

 Year 2 had an extra challenge - to write the number in words AND show the number using Base 10 (or 'chips and peas' as we call it in Class 2!). 
I am super impressed with everyone's understanding of this after only a few lessons!

In English we have been remembering how to write sentences with the correct punctuation and to use our phonics to help us if we get stuck with spelling a new word.

We created our own superheroes and wrote about what they look like and what their super power might be. 

Everyone has also been putting in lots of effort with their handwriting - we are starting to learn how to write letters correctly ready for joining our handwriting later on!

Home Learning:

We will be sending home learning from next week.

Your home learning this week is to make sure you read with an adult at home and have them record this is your new Reading Diary. 

We will be starting our Reading Reward Chart on Monday!

We started off the week with another fantastic visit to Rendlesham Forest - the weather was very kind to us and the children had a lovely day exploring all the forest had to offer, as well as enjoying the play equipment too!

Max came along too and enjoyed having a go on the swings and the zip-wire!

Higher! Higher!

Helping out...

Den building...

Two pairs of hands needed!

Building a campfire!

Enjoying a walk through the forest.

Working out the maze.

Look at me!

Looking out for each other - what a great friend!

A well-deserved break for lunch.

Back in the classroom e have written our own list poems this week, based on 'Ten Things in a Wizard's Pocket' by Ian McMillan - these were then beautifully written up and decorated by our authors and will be sent in as entries to the 'Suffolk Young Poets Competition' - see http://www.poetrypeople.co.uk/home/4592237524 for more details.

This week Year 1 have been learning about making words plural - this means more than one. Here is a video you could watch at home to help you remember when to add 's' or 'es'.

There is no Home Learning this week as next Thursday is the last day of term - but please make sure you read your reading books to an adult over the weekend!


Don't forget we will be opening up our classrooms on Monday and Tuesday between 3:15-3:45pm to give parents/carers a chance to look at what we have been up to this term.