Timetable changes

Monday - PE

Thursday Forest School

Friday - PE

Friday - Book Change

Week 1

It was lovely to have all the children back this week.

This week we learnt about the Hindu and Sikh festival of Diwali. We read the story of Rama and Sita, the story of Diwali, and learnt why it was called the festival of lights. We created Mehendi patterns, rangoli patterns and our own Diya lamps.

In Forest School we created a collaborative Mandala from leaves, sticks berries and feathers. We also enjoyed trying to catch the falling leaves as they blew from the trees in the breeze.

We also heard the story of Guy Fawkes and the history behind Bonfire Night.

In Maths we looked again at repeating patterns to deepen our understanding. We also continue to compare quantities. This time we needed to ensure we were listening carefully as we played a game of "the winner is..." because it could be the one with fewest objects or the one with more. We also learnt to use the term equal to if they had the same quantity.

Week 2

This week used the book "The Hairy Toe" by Daniel Postgate as our inspiration. We drew the old woman, her house and our own monster. We also drew a simple story map to help us retell the story.

In Maths we looked at how things are made of parts, for example, "my hand is a part of me and the whole of me is ____" We began by naming parts of different objects before we looked what parts we could see in 2 and 3.

In Phonics we revised i n p g o and used them to blend into words.

We learnt about Remembrance Day and celebrated by making our own poppies.

Week 3

This week we used "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler as our inspiration. We drew one of the characters, the dark wood and what we thought the Gruffalo's house would look like. Again we drew a simple story map to help retell the story.

In group time we made our own Gruffalo Crumble. The children helped chop the vegetables and grated the bread and cheese to create the crumble topping. After it had been baked we tasted it, some children even came back for thirds!! The recipe is in our virtual cookbook if you would like to make it at home.

In Maths we continued to look at the whole and its parts. We looked at the different ways we could split 4 and 5

At Forest School we had to find the Gruffalo's toes and then we built the different types of home for the fox, snake and owl.

Week 4

This week's text was "The Jolly Postman" by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. For Drawing Club we drew the postman, the village and created our own vehicle to deliver the post.

A visit from a theatre company with the Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime got us in the mood for Christmas so we wrote our letters from Santa.

This week was road safety week so instead of going to the forest area we walked to the local post box to post our letter to Santa.  

In Maths we refreshed our numeral recognition and careful counting. We played lots of games to encourage this including helping the postman deliver the letters by recognising the numeral on the letter and matching it to the correct door.

We also joined Year 1 and Year 2 to start rehearsals for our Christmas production.

Week 5

This week we read the traditional tale "The Gingerbread Man" for Drawing club. We drew the Gingerbread Man, the path he ran along and then designed a trap to catch him..

We also baked our own Gingerbread Men, weighing out the ingredients and using the rubbing in method to make the dough. Thankfully they didn't run away so we got to eat them the next day.

In maths we practiced our careful counting and numeral recognition by playing the Gingerbread Man game on:-

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/gingerbread-man-game

Week 6

This week we have had 2 amazing performances of Lights, Camel, Action 2!

We learnt about the story behind the first Christmas and we had fun with some Christmas craft.

In Maths we practiced ensuring quantities were in the correct order. We also practiced recalling 1 more than a given number.