We began our week listening to the story ‘Supertato’. A story about a Super Potato who rescues all the vegetables in the supermarket from the villain ‘Evil Pea’. After hearing the story, the boys wrote ‘Wanted posters’ about Evil Pea, these are displayed in Pre Prep’s library. During Expressive Arts and Design, the boys made their own Super veg or dressed them as they looked in the story.

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This week during maths we have combined addition and subtraction. The boys have been distinguishing between the + and – symbols. They also enjoyed reading number sentences and correcting the incorrect answers.

The maths challenge this week is as follows:

Please complete the following, either using your fingers or objects to help you. Look carefully at the symbol as it might be ‘+’ or ‘-‘. You may need to put some numbers in your head and count on or back with your fingers. Have fun!

3+4=

10-5=

5+2=

10+4=

8-3=

9-1=

12-2=

7+3=

In Understanding the World, we continued to learn about Weather. We looked at how snow is made and we had a visit from Pebble the Humbolt Penguin. Pebble is a penguin Lochinver House has adopted from ZSL. We wrote in Pebble’s diary and then returned Pebble to the senior science department.

The star boys for next week are as follows:

Monday: Harry

Tuesday: Jack

Wednesday: Jack N

Thursday: Jake

Friday: James

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Goring and Miss Barr

 

We began our week listening to the story ‘Noah’s Ark’. We learnt about the animals, rain and floods. The boys rewrote the story and showed excellent perseverance.

During Art, they painted their own rainbows like the rainbow at the end of the Noah’s Ark. During Understanding the World, they also learnt how rainbows are made and the early concepts of the water cycle. We placed a ‘puddle’ in our classroom and we will watch to see if it evaporates.

During music the boys sang a song about a magic box and they decided what the box would become:

During maths we have had lots of fun learning about taking away (subtraction). The boys have been playing several subtraction games. One of which is this weeks maths homework activity, please see below:

Please roll 2 dice and write down the highest number you see. After this, record the subtraction sign, then the other number on the die. Complete your number sentence. Have fun!

The theme for show and tell is ‘Superheroes’. For this, please bring in a picture of your favourite superhero and explain why they are your favourite superhero (This can be a famous superhero, or someone you know e.g Dad or Grandma).The starboys for next week are as follows:

Monday: Seb  (A picture from your Christmas holidays)

Tuesday: Shayan (A picture from your Christmas holidays)

Wednesday: Andrew

Thursday: Ayaan

Friday: Etem

The boys love using play dough in class, please come and sign up on the play dough making rota, which is on the inside of our cloakroom door with a recipe.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Goring and Miss Barr

 

 

For our topic of ‘Superheroes’, the boys listened to the story ‘Superworm’. They listened to the problems that Superworm managed to solve. After this we mind mapped different scenarios where Superworm could save the day! The boys then wrote their own page for our class Superworm book, which will stay in our class book corner to read.

 

In Maths we have continued to practise our adding. The boys enjoyed using objects and their fingers to add numbers together. The boys also worked independently to play different maths games. They organised themselves and shared the resources very well:

The maths homework activity this week is as follows:

Please roll a die and write down the number you see. After this, choose a number from 1-5 that you would like to add to the number you rolled. Then, complete your number sentence and see if you remember your + and = symbols. Have fun!

We have also started our Understanding the World topic of ‘Weather’. For this, the boys have been busy sewing raindrops:

The starboys for next week are as follows:

Monday: James

Tuesday: Kenan

Wednesday: Nathaniel

Thursday: Rishaan

Friday: Riyan

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Goring and Miss Barr

 

 

It has been so lovely to see the boys and parents after a well deserved Christmas holiday.

The boys are very pleased to see their friends. They have all come back enthusiastic and keen to do well.

The boys have learnt about New Year traditions and they have been thinking about New Years resolutions. We have had some super ideas, including even making their own beds! The boys  wrote down three ideas. They are doing very well forming their sentences.

One of our new topics this half term is ‘Superheroes’. The boys were excited to see that the role-play area is now a ‘Superheroes’ Headquarters’! They have been enjoying completing ‘missions’, by writing mission slips, writing missions on the computer, creating superhero passports and log books:

In Maths we have been reviewing numbers to 20 and beyond and revisiting ordinal numbers.

This week we have been learning about missing numbers, for this week’s maths homework, please fill in the missing numbers, by commenting on this blog post.

_, 2, _, 4, _, _, 7, _, _, 10, _, 12, _, 14, _

 

18, 19, _, 21, _, _, 24, 25, _, 27, _, 29, _.

 

The theme for show and tell is: Christmas holidays. Please bring in a photograph of your family at Christmas time. The star boys are as follows:

Monday: Etem

Tuesday: Harry

Wednesday: Jack

Thursday: Jake N

Friday: Jake O

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Goring and Miss Barr