Norwegian Day

On Friday this week, it was a very special day for Norwegians and for one particular pupil in our class. He was able to tell us all about why Norwegians celebrate on the 17th May each year and we asked lots of questions to find out more. He is going to bring in a few things on Monday to talk to us more about how he celebrated the important event. Well done! 🙂

Spelling

This week we have been working on our spelling sounds. We discussed the sound and came up with as many words as we could that used the same sound. We had to think carefully to work out how to spell them. Some of us were also practising writing common words on the big whiteboard.

Writing

We started a writing assessment this week. We had to try and work on our own and we had to imagine that new children were thinking about joining our class and we had to tell them lots of positive things and why they should join our class. We had to use WOW words and we highlighted them so that we could see them clearly. We also were making more effort to use word mats and dictionaries. We have been reading our work aloud to ourselves to try and help us proof-read and change any mistakes.

Maths

A lot of us have been working on chimney sums this week. Some of the sums have involved carrying which was tricky to begin with but we seem to have the hang of it now! Next week we will be moving onto subtraction chimney sums. Some of us have also been working on our addition and subtraction and trying to do sums mentally at times. We are definitely showing improvement and are practising lots!

Rehearsals

We took advantage of the lovely weather at the beginning of the week and had an outdoor practise of ‘There’s a Sunflower in my Supper!’ We have also had a practise inside and it finally all seems to be coming together so we hope to have a performance date very soon.

Topic

We have been very busy this week with our topic learning. We are enjoying finding out all about animals and nature.

Animal Classification

We used the new toys that had been brought in on Monday to sort them again into the correct categories. It was a bit harder since there were more reptiles and some trickier toys to think about!

Food chains

We have been learning about where animals get their energy from. We know that food chains use arrows to show the flow of energy and we know that all food chains start with the sun.

We know that PRODUCERS produce their own food and that CONSUMERS eat the food. We had to draw an example of a food chain on a whiteboard and we also had to create our own food chains on a worksheet.

Miss Dow read out sentences and we had to use the given cards to show the flow of energy in a food chain. It was quite tricky!