The Year 1s have been learning about how to write a diary and what the main features are...ask them, can they remember? They have written diaries for everything from wombats to worms and even pretending to be the Tortoise or the Hare from the play they watched before half term.
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| The Hare in a pose for the camera |
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| The Hare and the Tortoise |
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| Them in a competition |
They have also been writing addition sums to 10, to do this they have used Numicon. The children have started to make number bond activities for home learning.
At the same time in maths the reception have used Numicon and explored what each colours value is. They have investigated the Numicon by pushing it into bread or playdough and counting the dots, then to extend their learning they wrote a simple addition sum to match.
As it was Remembrance this week we looked at a book called 'The Hen and the Great War'. From this the children wrote postcard home from the boy Arthur to his mum talking about Bertha the Hen he had found. The children enjoyed the story and have talked a lot about Bertha (I hope they have also at home!!)
Keeping on the theme of poppies and addition sums, the children made poppies and had to add together the circles used for petals and stem.
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| Our poppy addition |
We have made lemon and poppy seed shortbread this week to stay
with our poppy theme.
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| Making Lemon and Poppy Seed Shortbread |
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Another exciting activity this week was pretending to be
horses and learning how to use a stopwatch and time each other for a race.
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| Horse Racing - Scoreboard |
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| Let's Go!! |
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| Who was the winner??? Next week we are looking at the Hindu festival of Diwali. We will learn the story of Rama and Sita, make diva lamps and Rangoli pictures. |
