Mad for maths

This term we worked on money💷💷💷💷💷. Wecreated a shop with items which we priced for us to add together, work out change and role play being shop keeper and customer. What fun!

We have explored time working on knowing days of the week, months of the year, o clock, half past and quarter past with an hour earlier and later in analogue and digital times.

We continue each week to work on our learn it sums, counting practice, it’s nothing new (doubling, halving) and calculations addition, subtraction and some multiplication.

 

Literacy

In literacy over the past term we have worked learning on our sounds and spelling patterns in different ways…

In writing  we have been researching more about people who help us to create our own paramedics information book by reading, sketching, taking notes, looking at photographs, websites and videos.

 

In our reading groups we have worked on:

  • reading to an audience with fluency, good pace and expression
  • retelling a story through drama
  • writng our predictions and pre-reading questions
  • discussing  our books and answering questions to help our understanding
  • dictionary skills and vocabulary in our texts
  • taking what we learned from our books and exploring this through play

World book day

What a fantastic day! We had great fun dressing up, reading our favourite stories, decorating our classroom door with one of our favourite class stories ‘the pigeon finds a hotdog’ by Mo Willems. We enjoyed a playground treasure hunt and did buddy reading with p4 r16!