This week, we continued the story of Supertato to help us with our writing. We explored the idea that all stories have five key elements: character, setting, problem, action and resolution. This helped us to break the story down and develop our understanding further. After discussing the story in detail we tried our very own story map, where we retell the story using pictures, paying particular attention to the order of events and the way the story flows on the page. It was a huge success and the boys and girls were delighted to talk about their storymaps with their peers.

We had a busy week in Numeracy and Maths learning about number bonds to 10 (2numbers that add together to make 10). We really enjoyed the timed game to match the numbers together. We tried to make amounts to buy toys in the shop and explored a variety of ways to facts to make the same number. We also had time to subtract using a variety of language such as 2 less than 4 and take 3 from 5.

We enjoyed our time in the garden this week particularly using the ice in our play. We painted ice blocks and made some ice cream in the mud kitchen.

Lots of creativity was on show again this week in our play areas with huge castles being built, elaborate designs on the pin boards, volcanoes erupting on the animals and words being drawn in the sand. As always, it is a delight to see the pupils playing so kindly with each other and interesting to see the ideas they come up with the materials provided, as they lead their own learning.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Denholm