Timetable changes for Term 2

PE will be on Friday

Book Change day will be Friday

Forest School will be Thursday

Week 1

What an amazing start to the new term.

This term we are only learning one new sound a week in Phonics but we are revisiting some of the single sounds to ensure we fill any gaps and misconceptions of previously taught sounds. Our new sound this week was qu and we revisited c and k. We have been continuing to work on blending the sounds into words and we have had a go at writing some words containing these sounds.

In Maths we continued to compare quantities. This time we looked at equal quantities and well as more than and fewer than.

Our text for Drawing Club was "The Hairy Toe" by Daniel Postgate. The children have enjoyed drawing the monster and the old women's house and have designed a trap to capture the monster.

This week we have also celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali. We have listened to the story of Rama and Sita and watched some clips on CBeebies about how one family celebrates. We have also learnt a very simple Indian dance and made our own Diva pots from saltdough.

Week 2

This week we have used the book "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson as our inspiration.

In Drawing Club we drew the Gruffalo, the woods and what we thought the Gruffalo's home would look like.

In English we drew and labelled a story map and labelled some of the features from the story.

We also cooked Gruffalo Crumble which is a savoury vegetable dish topped with breadcrumbs and cheese. The children chopped the vegetables and added them to the tray before cooking and tasting it. The recipe is in the virtual cookbook if you would like to try it at home.

In Group time we investigated the habitat of different animals and considered why they chosen these particular types of home.

In Maths we began to learn how things are made of parts. We sang head, shoulders, knees and toes to name some of the parts of our body. We then used the sentence "a ___ is a part but the whole is me." This will lead on to the idea that numerals can be made of different amounts.

Week 3

This week we used "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen as our text for Drawing Club. We drew the bear and his cave. We thought about the different types of hunts we could go on and what games the bear might like to play with his friends.

We also learnt about different types of bears.

In Maths we continued looking how we can break quantities into parts by separating groups of children by matching features.

This week we had our first Forest School session. We practiced dressing in our protective clothing then walked to the Forest Area and sat around the fire circle. We then made up the rules to keep us safe 1. we use our owl eyes

                                        2. we use our bat ears

                                        3. no pick, no lick

                                        4. we do not walk in the fire circle

We then went on a bear hunt, hidden around the area were lots of bear pictures to find.

Week 4

This week we used the traditional tale "The Gingerbread Man" as our inspiration for Drawing Club. We drew the Gingerbread Man and the river. We thought what we would bake if we could bake a new character and we designed a trap to capture the Gingerbread Man.

We also baked our own Gingerbread Men and took them to Forest School area to eat with a hot chocolate.

In Maths we thought about the cardinality of numbers and we made sure we remembered our "stopping" number when counting objects and actions.

We also discussed road safety. We thought about ways to stay beside the road, especially now the evenings are darker.

Week 5

This week's story for Drawing Club was "The Jolly Christmas Postman". We drew the Postman, the snowy village and designed a new sleigh for Santa.

We used it as our inspiration to write our own letters to Santa and then walked to the post box during Forest School to post them.

In Maths we continued to at cardinal numbers and match a quantity to its numeral by posting given amounts of letters in a post box. We also ordered the numerals to 10,

We also had plenty of rehearsals for our Nativity play.

Week 6

This week we used the Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler book "Stick Man" for Drawing Club drawing Stick Man, the family tree and what we would use our stick for.

For our writing challenge we labelled some of the things Stick Man was used for.

In Maths we looked at length and compared the length of different sticks. We discussed how the objects we are comparing need to be positioned such that one end is together at the same starting point, We explored the terms longer and longest, shorter and shortest. 

In Jigsaw we discussed friendship and what makes a good friend. We made our friends a bracelet.

In Forest School we made our own Stick Men by decorating sicks with pipe cleaner arms and googly eyes. We then used them to retell the story.

We also had our 3 performances of the Nativity play, "Lights, Camel, Action." Some of us may have suffered a little stage fright but we were definitely the stars of the show.

Week 7

This week's Drawing Club book was "The Dinosaur who Pooped Christmas" by Dougie Poynter and Tom Fletcher. We drew The dinosaur and the boy's house.

In Maths we ordered the numerals 1-10 and revisited repeating patterns by "fixing the fairy light strings." We completed the challenge of creating our own light string patterns.

We looked at the Jewish festival of Hannukah and some of the traditions associated with it.

In Forest School we made jingle sticks and then played them while we sang some Christmas songs.

We finished the week and the term with a party. We played pass the parcel and musical statues.