This week in Geography the children explored five of the animal habitats – Desert, Ocean, Farm, Poles, and the Rainforest. The children had to identify the animals and sort into their correct habitat. Well done everyone!
This week in English we have been reading ‘Monkey Puzzle’ by Julia Donaldson. We then sorted animals into groups based on their features, e.g. whether they had fur, feathers or scales. We have also been researching animal diets, and grouping carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
Here is some of the amazing writing we have produced –
Our current maths focus is ‘To 20 and beyond!’, where we are learning about counting, building and exploring patterns of numbers beyond 10.
This week we have been investigating adding ones to groups of ten, enabling us to build numbers from 11 to 20. Everyone has worked super hard to explore, explain and discuss what they have found out. Well done Acorns!
“One group of ten and 7 more is 17.”
“I have got a tower of ten. I need 5 more cubes to make 15. 10 and 5 is 15.”
Our new topic in Acorns is Animal Safari. In this topic we will be learning about all the incredible animals that live around the world. We will explore and compare animal habitats, and investigate animals in the local environment.
We will learn how to care for pets, and find out what all animals need to grow, survive and stay happy and healthy.
Our role play area is in the process of becoming a veterinary surgery –
We’ve explored online games about how to look after animals –
We made posters about taking care of pets –
We drew pictures of our favourite animals and labelled them –
We can’t wait to find out more and become animal experts!
At the end of our ‘Ready, Steady Grow’ topic, we had a challenge to complete! We read the story ‘Penny Pig’s Super Salad’, and talked about the importance of eating a healthy, varied diet. Then we explored salad ingredients and identified which ones we would like to try.
Everyone helped to peel, chop and mix the vegetables and then we all created our own ‘super salad’. We also challenged ourselves to try something new, and everyone tried at least one new vegetable! Well done Acorns!
This week in English we have been matching animals to their babies, drawing pictures and writing labels. In Maths we have explored one more and one less, and completed a number line challenge.
In our topic work we explored farms in the past, and also made observational drawings of our cress seeds.
We also had fun outdoors!
The children in Rowans looked amazing in their costumes for World Book Day!! The children listened to the story of The Enormous Turnip, they then retold the story using colourful semantics and answered comprehension questions about the story. In the afternoon the children selected animals from books and created paper plate animals. The children finished the day sharing stories with the children from Acorns. A super duper day!!
This week in Science, we have been exploring what a plant needs to grow.
We explored different types of seeds, talking about how they look and feel and compared sizes and shapes, then we decided to grow some cress seeds.
We planted two sets of seeds, and placed one tray in the sunlight, and the other in a dark cupboard. We will water the seeds in the sun but not the ones in the cupboard. Everyone made predictions about what will happen to each set of seeds. We’re going to observe our seeds daily and observe what happens.
This week we have had a bit of a mystery in Acorns! We found some ‘magic’ beans and golden eggs around our classroom!
After some discussion and detective work, we decided that it must have something to do with the story we are reading in English, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, but we still haven’t solved the mystery of where the items came from…… How very strange!
We shared our ideas and wrote some sentences about the story, and continued looking for clues to solve the mystery!
This week in Acorns we have made a start on our new topic ‘Ready Steady Grow’. We will be learning about food and farming, plants and animals, and will be planting some seeds and observing how they grow.
We started to change our role-play area into a farm shop, and will continue to work on this over the next few weeks. Our first job was researching what types of things you would find in a farm shop, and we made a colourful bunting sign!
We also set up a small world farm where we can make up our own stories.
In English we read ‘The Enormous Turnip’, explored new vocabulary and then drew and labelled some root vegetables.
