This week in Maples during geography we looked at fieldwork. Fieldwork combines the knowledge and skill children require to think about about what and where places are and why. We created a short checklist of areas within the school grounds and asked the children to locate them. The children really enjoyed sharing their knowledge and were rewarded with a play session in the soft play for their efforts. Well done Maples.
This week in Acorns we have been exploring some challenges linked to ‘Fieldwork Fortnight’.
One of the challenges was to look at signs, and explore how colours signify different meanings. We talked about red for ‘stop’ and green for ‘go’, and how this helps to control traffic and keep people safe.
We even made some road signs of our own to use with the small world vehicles!
In our Maths and topic work we have been exploring maps and directions. We have described routes around school and created our own ‘treasure’ maps for our friends to follow.
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 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.
Birches took part in a workshop with Kirsten from Newcastle University today. we looked at flags, where we see them and what they represent. We then designed our own flag with pictures of things that represent us. Kirsten was very impressed with our knowledge and enthusiasm.
This week in Acorns we have been looking at and learning about maps, and creating our own. We identified positional vocabulary in the story ‘What the Ladybird Heard’, and used this to talk about our maps.
In Maths, we have been learning about pairs, and sorting odd and even numbers. We paired up animals to go onto Noah’s Ark.
An Olympic athlete, Lucy Turner, came to visit school on Monday. We all took part in a fitness challenge!
We’ve had a fabulous week!
As part of our Geography topic “Rocks, Relics and Rumbles” Cherries have been investigating soil by carrying out fieldwork in our school gardens.
We know there are 3 types of soil: sandy, silty and clay.
We collected soil samples around school, and in class we performed tests (rolling, squeezing and observing) to establish what type of soil we had found. We decided they were silty and clay soils.
In computing the children planned and drew a route for a car using the directions of forwards, backwards, up, down, left and right. They had lots of fun trying out the different routes that their friends had drawn. Well done Rowans!!
This week in maths the children in reception have been learning all about 1 more with numbers 1, 2 and 3. The children in year one have been comparing numbers using greater than, less than and equal to. In phonics the children in reception learnt all about the +m sound whilst they children in year one learnt about the +oa sound. In PE the children practiced working as a team to tackle and score goals in football. In science the children learnt about rockets and created their own rocket for the space display in class. In geography the children learnt about the features of a map and created their own maps.
A great end to a fantastic half term, well done Rowans!
