Week 2

This week we continued to learn more about some events that have happened in the past. We started to think about different modes of transport and looked at the similarities and differences between vehicles of the past and present. We read a book about Amelia Earhart and learned that she was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, then explored maps, atlases and Google Earth on the iPads to see what different places we could find.

We also revisited some of our knowledge from the Autumn Term this week. We remembered what we found out about Remembrance and poppies, then planted some poppy seeds of our own. We’re going to look after them carefully so that when they grow we can do something special with them… watch this space!

We had lots of fun making words with sponge letters. We chose our favourite vehicles and then segmented the sounds to help us figure out which letters we needed.

In maths we recapped odds & evens and doubles. It was interesting to see that the numbers with doubles in were always even… we even noticed that we could spot the ‘odd block’ or ‘even top’ when we arranged numbers on a ten frame! The more we learn, the more patterns we’re spotting - numbers really are amazing!

We also made towers using numicon and counted out what numbers we’d made, as well as practising reading numbers to 20 and arranging them using play dough on ten frames

I had a bit of a disaster this week… I lost my key! Luckily, the Dolphins were there to help me out. They made special posters and stuck them around the school. Hopefully they will work and my key will be found!

In PE we travelled in different ways. We loved pretending to be different vehicles, especially cars and bicycles! Then we used a new piece of equipment - a hoop! At first, we had a go at seeing what we could do with our hoops. Then we learned how to push them so that they rolled across the playground. At the end of the lesson, we tried to roll our hoop to a partner. This was tricky, but so fun!

Week 1

What a busy week we’ve had!

We kicked off the week with a fun music lesson. This half term all of our music lessons will be based around the weather. We sang some songs about the weather and then listened to ‘April Showers’ from Bambi. We really enjoyed moving ribbons in time to the music and talking about which instruments represented the rain, wind and lightning.

In Drawing Club we read the story ‘Penguin’ by Polly Dunbar. Throughout the week we drew the lion, a hiding place for the penguin and invented a way to get the penguin out of the lion’s tummy! We loved being able to show our parents how Drawing Club works during our Wednesday session - thank you to everyone who was able to attend.

In maths we continued to learn about numbers to 20 and beyond. We’re getting really good at spotting the pattern of the number system and deepened our understanding of ‘teen’ numbers by matching them with numicon. We noticed that each teen number had one 10, whilst the numbers behind 20 contained two 10s. On Friday we applied our counting skills to a game called ‘Race to 20’.

This half term we will be learning about the famous aviator Amelia Earhart. This week we thought about the concepts of old and new. We looked at different objects and tried to figure out which ones were the oldest (we particularly liked the old phone and the Thunderbirds game!). We talked about the past and remembered that some things happened a long time ago, whilst other things happened recently. Then we made a timeline to help us understand how long ago some events happened. 

In the woodwork area some of us learned how to use a hand drill! We looked at different drill bits and noticed that the bigger drill bits made bigger holes. Then we practised putting wood into a vice and turning the handle to make holes. We are getting really confident with hammers, screwdrivers and saws now - our designs and creations just keep getting better and better!

We have really enjoyed playing and exploring with our friends again after the two week break. We made and tested boats, created potions in the mud kitchen, made sand castles and dens in the small world area, wrote secret messages and much more!