Chinese New Year

January 31, 2020 | sgoring

This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. The boys enjoyed retelling the Chinese New Year story using masks and music to re-enact the swimming race with the 12 Chinese animals. They also created their own dances dances using a Chinese animal costume. During Expressive Arts and Design, the boys made some wonderful Chinese lanterns.

The swimming race:

Chinese dancing:

Making Chinese lanterns:

This week during Maths we have combined addition and subtraction. The boys have been distinguishing between the + and – symbols. They 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, a numberline 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. For an extra challenge, extend this to numbers beyond 20. Please comment on this blog to say how you got on or bring work in to show. Have fun!

3+4=

10-5=

5+2=

10+4=

8-3=

9-1=

12-2=

13+3=

7+3=

Digraph games

Digraph snap

Spotting birds through the window who are enjoying the ‘Little Leo’ bird feeders. The pigeon is on the bird feeder made by Danveer in RS:

For show and tell please bring in a picture of something you are curious about or an example of how you have shown your curiosity. The Starboys for next week are as follows:

Monday: Christian

Tuesday: Danveer

Wednesday: Denis

Thursday: Feyi

Friday: Jacob

The weekly challenge for next week is: Use a knife and fork.

Please help your son to practise using his knife and fork at home.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Starkey and Mrs Aldridge

The animals went in two by two…

January 24, 2020 | sgoring

The boys have had a fun and productive week…

During Literacy and Understanding the World, we listened to the story ‘Noah’s Ark’. The boys loved watching the animals enter the ark and being safe from the flood. Their wonderful writing about Noah’s Ark will be displayed in class, alongside their sewing and paintings.

The boys were fascinated learning about rain and rainbows and how they are formed. They enjoyed painting their own rainbows. We also have a class ‘puddle’, which we are going to watch to see if it evaporates!

During Music they boys performed a teddy song to their teddies:

In Maths we have been learning about subtraction:

For the Maths homework activity, could you please practise counting back from 20. After this, use dice to subtract numbers. Throw two dice, start with the biggest number and subtract the smaller number using your fingers. To extend this beyond 6, use one of your laminated number cards, roll the die and subtract using your fingers. Please comment on this blog post to say how you got on. Have fun!

The new theme for show and tell is: Please bring in a picture of what you are curious about or an example of how you have shown your curiosity. The Starboys for next week are as follows:

Monday: Patrick- A picture of your family during the Christmas holidays

Tuesday: Zachary- A picture of your family during the Christmas holidays

Wednesday: Aarav

Thursday: Alistair

Friday: Antonio

The weekly challenge for next week is: Line up smartly and quietly with your hands by your side.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Starkey and Mrs Aldridge

Weather and Superheroes

January 17, 2020 | sgoring

This week we have been learning more about our new topics ‘Superheroes’ and ‘Weather’.

The boys have been having lots of fun in the Superheroes’ Headquarters role play area.

During Literacy, we listened to the story ‘Superworm’. Using their sentence writing, the boys wrote their own scenarios or problems for Superworm to save the day. All of their writing has been turned into a book to read in their bookcorner:

The boys also learnt about weather forecasts and facts about different types of weather.

During Expressive Arts and Design, the boys have been busy sewing raindrops for a weather class display. Mrs Aldridge and I have been very impressed with their determination and improving dexterity.

In Maths we have been writing addition number sentences learning where to place + and =.

For the Maths homework this week could you please complete the following:

Choose a number between 0-10, 0-20 or higher. Roll a die and add this to your first number using your fingers. If the number will total more than 10, place the largest number in your head and count on with your fingers.

Here are some other pictures from this week: