Family Learning Day!
Thank you for making this day a success!
In literacy we continued learning about nocturnal animals. Have a look at the below, which nocturnal animals can you spot?
Family Learning Day!
Last Wednesday was such a great day; lots of families visited our classrooms and joined with the learning!
Thank you for making this day a success!
For the last part of our science learning in our unit about dark and light, the children learned about circuits. The children used wire with crocodile clips, light bulbs, batteries and switches. They know now how everything in a circuit should be connected, in order to make a light bulb light up. They showed their understanding by making their circuits more complex, gradually adding more batteries and light bulbs to their circuits.
In Year 1 the children started learning about division through sharing. We used a division board and pebbles to help us to solve division problems. You can see an example of their work above. The children also practised sharing equally when making bracelets and preparing a plate for a meal. Division is very new for our Year 1 learners so we will continue this learning next week.
In literacy we continued learning about nocturnal animals. Have a look at the below, which nocturnal animals can you spot?
In Year 2 we have been developing our grammar skills. We have been practising identifying different types of words and sentences. We used the story of Iggy Peck as a stimulus for problem-solving and worked cooperatively to answer questions relating to the story. In maths this week we have become more familiar with terms such as o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to in order to help us tell the time. We have even made our own clocks to support us!
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MATHS DAY It was finally here! The day we could finally present and sell our product; those we have been working on for so long! The children did an absolute brilliant job promoting and selling the different products. Year 1 has been making key chains with Hama beads. They chose their designs and carefully counted the beads and put them together. We made price tags and posters to make our stall look attractive. Year 2 has been working on pizzas. They had to find out which toppings people prefer in order to make pizza that would sell. And we were sold out quickly! The learners also had a chance to buy products made by other classes; especially the slime station of Year 6 was very popular, as well as the fruit pizzas made by Year 4! It was great to share this afternoon with all the learners from Primary and to use our maths skills in a real life situation. The learners were so excited, they would really like to make and sell products soon again! In Literacy Year 1 has been focusing on non-fiction texts about nocturnal animals. We started with some research about these animals and we will continue with this next week. In Year 2 we have used our story plans to write our own version of the story of Bumblebear. We applied our knowledge of adverbs and worked hard to expand on our plans by including time connectives and descriptive language. We are now becoming more independent at checking our writing and making improvements. We have also worked with our learning facilitator to look at what we have achieved and what our next steps should be. Come and join us for FAMILY LEARNING DAY! 27th March 2019 There is a sign up sheet by the door of each classroom. In Learning Journey we looked at shadows this week. We experimented with torches and Lego people. Our goal was to carefully record our observations. After this we made sundials and kept track of the shadows at different times during the day. They were responsible to help each other in their teams, which they did very well! Do you know how shadows change? Can you explain why this happens? Science in Milepost 1We started learning Science this week, which has been so amazing! The learners used their enquiry skills to experiment with light and dark! They learned the words: transparent, translucent and opaque. They went on a material hunt in the classroom to find objects that were either transparent, translucent or opaque. So much great thinking going on!
In Literacy we started learning to take notes while watching a video or listening to someone. Notes are usually very short and help us to remember what we've just seen or -listened to. The children practised interviewing others and taking notes and also listened to some information, while taking short notes. This will come in handy when we start learning about nocturnal animals next week! In Year 2 in Maths we have been thinking about which products will sell best for Maths Day. We have been using tally charts, pictograms and blocks graphs to show our results. We have also started to learn about money and change in preparation for Maths Day! This week in Literacy we have been reading The Bumblebear. We have been learning about adverbs in order to improve some of the sentences in The Bumblebear so that it is more interesting to read! Seeing the Light!
Our new unit is called Seeing the Light, in which we will learn all about Light & Dark.
To start our unit off right we tasted different foods in the dark and we read a story by candle light. We also found out what we already knew about Light and Dark through a quiz and explored different sources of light! Follow this link below to do this quiz at home! create.kahoot.it/share/seeing-the-light/a44d70a3-dec9-4910-8088-cda228d03acf
In Year 1 we continued learning about fractions. We are now more familiar with halves and quarters. Some of us even challenged themselves with thirds and fifths! You can see an example of our work on top.
In 1S they practised writing stories following on from Book Week and using tricky words in their writing. 1A has been practising for their assembly; trying to use a microphone and presenting their learning! In Year 1 we also practised being enquirers by asking questions to each other and to the characters we read about in stories; which you can hear below.
In Year 2 we have continued our learning on data handling. We have learned to pose our own questions and collect information in tally charts and block graphs. We have really been developing our skills in interpreting the data we have collected by answering questions about e.g. most popular fruit, and have even generated our own questions to ask each other.
This week in Literacy we have been acting out our own Traction Man stories. We have also been thinking about what a hero means to us and who our heroes are. |
MP1The learning adventures of MP1! |