In the Active Learning Zone this week we have been practising using Google Earth. We are learning during road safety week about travelling safely and we have used Google Street View to try and find our own house. Most of us managed it!

 

At the making table we have been drawing trees and cutting out leaves to make a number tree. All the leaves are the colours of Autumn. Well done Alise who spent a long time creating her number tree.

We have been exploring music more too. We have been learning songs for our Christmas show and are continuing to use the iPad to find out about different music through some music apps. At the Wii we have also been exploring how our bodies move and how we can make them move to music. We use the timer so we all have a turn at playing. Who let the Dogs Out is one of our favourtie dances!

Our Percy’s shed is continuing to grow. We have looked back at our plan and checked off all the things that we were able to find. We are enjoying exploring being Percy but we are still working on looking after our resources in the ALZ and will continue to work on taking responsibility for tidying up.

In number work this week we have been learning lots more about addition. We have been learning more about adding to numbers together, this week we were concentrating on learning to add the stories of 4 and 5. It is starting to get very tricky but some of us have really got the hang of it. Over the next few weeks we will revise the stories of 1 to 5 and learn some new addition stories.

   

      

In health, we have been thinking all about staying healthy. We had a fit Friday and we took part in lots of sports like Tennis, Football and Karate. We all had lots and lots of fun and lots of us were talking about what we liked the best and some of us even want to start new clubs because of what we have been learning which is super!!!! Miss Peace has been teaching us all about healthy diets too. We learnt that there are five main food groups and to stay healthy we have to have something from them all – some are better for us than others though! Next we had to make a plate of food showing what we had learnt and thinking carefully about how much of each type of food we would have in a meal so that it was healthy. We did really well and we had lots of fun too!

          

      

We have started reviewing our week and this is called our Thinking Thursday Activexpression Activity. We have to use our activexpressions to vote for the collect answer after we have listened carefully to the question and thought carefully about what the answer might be. It was lots of fun and we all did really well. We are even getting really good at interpretting the results when the results come up.

     

We have been learning to use our Jolly Phonic sounds to make new blends. This is when two sounds that we know join up and make friends  to make a new sounds. This week we were learning all about the sounds qu as in quack and th as in this and thin. We all had lots of fun and enjoy putting on the Jolly Phonics songs CD in the story area when it is choice time.

We are continuing to self assess and we have been getting really good at it. We have made a display to go in our thinking board and it helps us learn all about what our focus is for the term and how we are doing at it.

We have also gotten some new areas around the room to use at choice time. Each area either teaches us a new skill or lets us apply a skill that we have been learning. Some of the most popular areas this week have been;

-using the wedge with magnetic letters on leaves to make new words and record them on a sheet

-using the aquamat to write words which are in our Roald Dahl books   

– the writing table has lots of different independent activities were we have to write our ideas or what we think the characters ideas or words might be

–the art area where we have been creating animals to go in the jungle

 

Week Beginning 26th November

Remember to bring your filled, named water bottle with you every day (no juice please).

HOMEWORK – Please send it to school every day but any tasks should be completed by Wednesday. The teacher will collect in the weeks work on      Wednesday. Each week there will be a Yellow Book Challenge to do but you can pick which challenge you want to do from a list of 3 each week. There will be no homework on a Wednesday night.

Gym is on a Monday. Please remember long hair will need to be tied back and no jewellery. This means all earrings must be removed. Thank you.

Fruit money will be £1.80 for the term.

Next week is Read Week

Tuesday 27th November remember to bring your teddy bear and a snack for the Teddy Bear’s Picnic.

Thursday 29th November remember to bring in your favourite story book. 

On Friday 30th November remember to come dressed as your favourite character.