We have been applying our knowledge of measure during our play experiences 🤩
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Fairtrade Acrostic Poem
You will find optional Fairtrade homework in your child’s homework folder. This is an opportunity to complete an acrostic poem for an upcoming competition. Fairtrade was discussed today in class. Your poem will be set out as follows;
F
A
I
R
T
R
A
D
E
Good luck 🙂
Mrs Stephenson
Jump Start Jonny
Kindness
Today we spoke about being kind to each other through our words. We sat in a circle and passed two apples around. To the first apple we said unkind words such as- ‘I don’t like you,’ ‘you’re stinky,’ ‘you’re ugly.’ To the second apple we said lovely things such as ‘you are beautiful,’ ‘You smell nice,’ ‘You are lots of fun.’
We talked about how the apples would feel on the inside (even though they looked fine on the outside). Mrs Stephenson then cut the apples in half. The one we were kind to looked bright and healthy on the inside, the one we were mean to looked dull and bruised.
We discussed that when we say unkind things to people, although they might look fine on the outside, on the inside they will feel really sad ☹️
To finish our circle time, we said lovely kind words to each other and all felt great afterwards 🤩
It has been a busy week in 1.4!
We continued with our Social Studies topic looking at methods of transport from the past in comparison with what we use today. We loved the old style bicycle and some of us really want to be taken home from school in a horse and cart!
During our literacy time we have been focusing on reading. We have been using our scanning skills to find different words in our books, sequencing our story in the correct order on storyboards and developing our confidence when reading aloud.
Numeracy & Maths has involved a mixture of ordering numbers and completing calculations. Mrs Stephenson likes to challenge our mental maths during class games. We are getting much faster with our answers. Sometimes we play against her (but we always win!).
We have also reorganised our room and we are really happy with the results. We took ownership of how the classroom would be laid out and where to place our resources so we could easily access them. We will upload pictures as soon as we can.
During our time in the ICT suite, we have been learning how to reply to e-mails. Mrs Stephenson has been sending us e-mails asking us questions and we have been responding to her. We would now love to send someone from home an e-mail. Please write an e-mail address in our homework diaries that we can contact and we will aim to do this after the February break.
Thank you 🙂
Transport
Our new class topic is ‘transport’. Today, we conducted a traffic survey to see how many different vehicles we could see on the road. There were a lot of cars but we didn’t see any bicycles or motorbikes. The children said it was probably too cold for them 🥶
Handwriting
Today we were focusing on our handwriting. We are writing a lot more in our jotters now and it’s important that our letters are formed correctly. We did a fantastic job and took on the feedback we were given to make improvements. 🤩
Education City
All children have now had their Education City username and passwords sent home with them (these can be found on homework diaries). If you have paid for home access, you will be able to play games from home. Otherwise, the children will have opportunities to explore the site during our ICT time and during free choice in class 🙂
Phonics Detectives
We have been using our special detective magnifying glasses to look for different digraphs in some of our library books. When we find the digraph we have been challenging ourselves to try and read the full word it belongs to 👍🏻.
