Hi everyone,
We have been learning lots about how to measure distance and length using a varitety of materials. We can measure using our feet, hands, numicon and cubes! We have discovered that measuring with our feet and hands are not always accurate because we all have different size feet and hands! We are beginning to use metre sticks and rulers to measure more accurately. The rectangles have been learning about numbers to 100, in particular they were learning about rounding numbers to 10. They could use this knowledge to measure using the metre sticks. Miss Lyons was very impressed! The triangles and circles have been learning about adding and subtracting and are using this knowledge to compare measurements.
We have enjoyed making paper aeroplanes so we decided to go outside to measure how far our paper aeroplanes could fly. Some of our planes went REALLY far, in fact one went so far it flew right over the fence. We found this very funny and had to estimate how far the paper aeroplane flew.
In literacy we have been learning all about magic “e”. We have been creating magic “e” words in creative ways. Some of us have even created lists of magic “e” words by going round the class and school trying to find as many as we can. In the end we had nearly 30 words written on the list, we were impressed that we could find so many!
This Elf arrived from the North Pole in time for the countdown to Christmas . We recieved a letter from Santa to tell us that our Elf had been sent for us to look after until Christmas. Santa told us that the Elf will be watching us to make sure we are doing good work. We voted on a name for our Elf, we chose Elfie! Elfie has been up to mischief all month!
We have been creating lots of Christmas crafts the past few weeks, in particular we have been learning about watercolour painting. We created Starry Night paintings, we had to learn how to blend colours together before painting a tree with a thin brush. We learned how to hold a paintbrush and how to use soft strokes while painting.
Please look at the pictures of our learning over the past month.
Also we would like to wish all our families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New a
Year!Love,
P2c.
