For Comic Relief, we had a cake sale.
We raised over £100!
Thank you everyone for your kind donations
This week we have been carrying out scientific jobs in class as part of science week. We explored ‘connections’ by matching animal faces to make sure they made a complete face, and we made our own butter!
We investigated how the liquid cream changes into solid butter by being shaken in a jar. It was amazing as we watched and heard the cream turning into a solid!
After we made the butter we all tasted it on some bread, and agreed that it was yummy!
Exploring insects and matching to the small world minibeasts. We looked closely using magnifying glasses, and counted how many legs each creature had. We also looked at how they were similar to or different from each other.
Year 1 retold some Bible stories in RE. We read the story about Jesus feeding the five thousand, and then discussed why Jesus is so important to Christians.
Investigating length in Maths. We found objects that were short, long and of equal length, making sure we used the correct mathematical vocabulary when talking about what we had done.
Our ‘Long Ago’ topic timeline, showing how toys have changed from the 1970’s to now. Our grown-ups from home and adults in school sent in pictures and information about their favourite toys when they were children.
In Acorns we read ‘The Invisible String’, and thought about the ways that we are connected to people we love, even if we can’t always see them.
We drew ourselves, and the people we are connected to by ‘invisible strings’.
We have been finding out how to stay safe online. We read the story ‘Hanni and the Magic Window’ and discussed what we could do if we saw something online or elsewhere that made us feel upset or worried. Then we drew things that we would like to see if we had our own magic window.
In English we read the story ‘Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge’ by Mem Fox. This is a lovely story about a little boy who helps an elderly lady to find her lost memories. We then shared some of our own favourite memories with the class.
Our grown ups have been helping us with our topic work. We gave them a task of telling us about their favourite toys when they were children. We are going to put this information onto a timeline to show how toys have changed over time.
Every Thursday. Acorns and Hawthorns have their weekly reading club. This is run by Mrs Malone, Miss Henderson and Jo-Anne.
In the first session, everyone chose a favourite book which we put into our special reading club basket. Every week we focus on a different book, so everyone has a turn to share why their book is special.
Last week we looked at ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We found some mysterious magic beans, read the story, and then did some reading, writing and creative jobs linked to the story. We had so much fun!
This week the children have explored the story of Rosie’s Hat. The children created a story map and used colour semantics to describe what was happening in the pictures. In phonics the children have been learning the new sound of ‘u’. In maths some of the children have been completing number bond activities to 10, 2d shapes and ABC patterns. As part of history the children planned activities for an afternoon using time, such as ‘first’, ‘then’ and ‘next’. Then on the next day they looked back at what activities they had planned on the afternoon and used the vocabulary of ‘yesterday’. As part of science the children have been identifying eyes and noses and there functions.
In Music lessons we have been listening to music, sharing our thoughts and finding the beat. This will help us to create our own beat and compose our own music.
In phonics we explored the ‘ow’ sound, then read and wrote some ‘ow’ words.
This week we have been focusing on the story of the The Three Little Pigs. The children loved joining in with this story! We have sequenced the story by creating a story map. We also have used colourful semantics to describe what is happening in the story. In art we created a collage to represent the three houses and identified each material. We also identified the shapes needed to create the houses. We had lots of fun following instructions to build our own houses using duplo blocks and stickle bricks.
Well done Rowans, a super duper week.
In Maths we have been using the mathematical vocabulary ‘more than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’ –
3 is less than 5
Equal means ‘the same’
6 is more than 2
We have also been reading ‘The Jolly Postman’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, and finding out about what happens in a Post Office.
Exploring our new Post Office role-play area
