Half Term!

This week we have been doing lots of learning!
In literacy we have been thinking of our own ways to start stories and sequencing the story of 'Mr Gumpy's Outing'.

In Maths we have been learning about subtraction and how the numbers become smaller when we take away.

We have aslo looked at irons and how they worked and how they used to look before electricity. The children were asked to differentitate between past and present.

Here are some photographs from this week.

In the first week back after half term we have our class assembly. We will be doing a lot of practice for our assembly.

Can the children please bring in one cap each as we will be using them in our assembly.

Does anyone have any small plastic bottles with lids that we can use in our Role Play?

Next half term there are lots of fun and exciting things happening. We have Green Day, Sports Day, Cultural Week and our School trip.

We hope you have an enjoyable and fun half term!

We have had great fun this week learning the story of "Mr Gumpy's Outing". The children have taken on the role of the different characters and acted out the story.

In maths we have experimented with scales and compared the weight of different objects using the key words, 'heavy' and 'light'.

In creative we have learnt how to change the shade of a colour by mixing in small amounts of white paint.

This week we are going to be carrying on our learning using the story of Mr Gumpy. We are going to think of our own ways to start a story (including a setting and a character) and sequence the story too.

In Maths this week we are going to be learning the main concept of subtraction and having a go at some practical subtraction sums.

We are also going to try to differentiate between past and present and find out clothes used to be ironed and put them on a timeline.

We hope you have a good weekend!

Water

Last week we had lots of fun exploring water.

We learnt how clothes used to be washed; using a washboard to scrub the clothes, how the dolly and poser washed the clothes in the water and how a mangle was used to dry the clothes. The children have had great fun using the artefacts and washing some clothes themselves.

In Literacy we wrote instructions on how to use the artefacts.

We have also conducted a floating and sinking investigation and found out which objects float and sink.

This week we are using the story 'Mr Gumpy's Outing' by John Burningham. We are going to sequence the story and write a character profile on our choosen character.

We are also going to use our investigating skills and find out how many marbles it will take to sink a paper boat.

In creative we are thinking about colour mixing to change the shade of one specific colour by adding a little bit of white paint.

Don't forget to order your photographs.

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Royal Wedding!

WOW! What a busy and fun 2 days we have had!

We have been creative and made crowns for our 'playground party', been musical and learnt new songs to sing at our party, made a memory mat so we always remember exactly what we were doing at the time of the Royal Wedding and dressed up in red, white and blue for our playground party!

Here are some photographs of us enjoying our party.

This half term we are going to be focusing on water. Next week we are going to learn where we find water: rivers, taps and rain; what we use water for: drinking and washing and the different noises that water can make. We are going to be experimenting with different objects in the water to create sounds and then have a go at writing the sounds we hear. In creative we are going to be making wax resist water pictures using wax crayons and Brusho.

We hope you have a lovely long weekend and enjoy the Wedding!

Next Term!

A BIG thank-you to all the parents and helpers on our school trip to Mill Green.

We had lots of fun and learnt lots of exciting new things. The Miller told us all about the Mill and how the water wheel turns the cogs to grind the wheat into flour. We used the flour to bake some bread, made shakers with the wheat and made our own badges!

Here are some photographs of us on our first school trip!

After Easter we have a 2 day week (Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th).

On these 2 days we will be taking part in activities associated with the Royal Wedding. We are going to be making our own crowns and tiaras using finger paints, making our own bunting for a playground/street party on Thursday afternoon and making our own memory mat to record information about ourselves such as our friends, favourite colour and which class we are in.

We hope you all have a restful Easter Break!

Mill Green Museum!

This week we had a special treat! Mrs Coates (Gracie’s Mum) came into school on Thursday and taught us some Monkey Music. We all had a go at singing, dancing and playing a drum in different ways - tapping, rolling,scratching adn banging! We made lots of noise and had lots of fun!

Next week we are going to be really busy as it is the last week of term and it’s our school trip! We will be reading the story about The Little Red Hen, discussing the characters and sequencing the events in the story. We are looking forward to our trip to Mill Green Museum (thank you so much to all of the parent helpers who volunteered to come with us.) We will be listening to the miller who will explain all about how to grind wheat, making our own bread and making badges and shakers!

We will be carrying on learning about adding and the number bonds to 5 and 10.

As we investigated with magnets last week we are going to be taking our learning forward by investigating the different materials in our classroom and trying to describe them.

We will learn about Easter and how it is a special time of year to some people and we are going to make some chocolate nests and notice the changes that happen to the ingredients - there may be a treat in the nest!!!

Spring Time!

Thank you to everybody who came to watch our assembly.

The children did really well and made us all proud.

This week we have been really busy with rehearsing for our assembly, but have had time to go on a spring walk.

Here are some pictures of the signs of Spring which we found.

Next week we are going to be thinking about Mother's Day and how special our families are. We are also going to be thinking about magnets and investigating which materials are magnetic.