This week in maths we continued our learning about shapes. We focused on 2D and 3D shapes and we made 3D shapes with Play-Doh. We also learned about faces, edges and vertices. We finished out autumn wax resist leaves, discussed harvest festival and thing we are thankful for and we practiced our songs and words for the Harvest Service. Happy holidays!

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we have been playing lots of spelling games to revise the taught rules from this term. We have also tested our common words again and made individual spelling lists to practise words we find tricky.
We have enjoyed ‘Wild ERIC’ this week, where we are all reading in class, choosing from the class library. We are allowed to read anywhere in the room. On pillows, under desks, on the teacher’s chair!
In numeracy we have been ordering and sequencing numbers to 100 for p2 and 1000 for p3  and working on mental addition strategies.

We have been enjoying playing mini games in football this week. We have been working on our dribbling, passing and shooting skills as well as communication, problem solving and listening. In outdoor learning we have now had a chance to do all three of the activities, natural story builders, bird watching and tree aging. its been very interesting exploring these activities in our year groups. in Literacy we have been focusing o the connectives but, so and and. We have been using these in sentences and creating our own. In maths we have finished up our work on cross-sections of 3D shapes. we have explored play-doh, shapes, games and activities. For RME we have been learning about Harvest. We thought about the gifts that Autumn brings and things that we can be thankful for. in Art we finished making Autumn leaves using wax resist to create patterns using lines and shapes. We love the Autumn colours we used.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we continued exploring the animation apps on the iPads together. We can now all add characters, backgrounds, text, sounds and movement.
We have been enjoying singing our harvest songs and getting ready for our harvest assembly.
We are practising dictations with our new spelling rules. P2s are learning ‘ss’ and P3s are learning ‘ey’.

In numeracy we have been sequencing and ordering numbers to 100 for p2 and to 1000 for p3.

We have loved learning about cross sections of 3D shapes this week. We were able to chose our activities, whether we were matching, building, playing Tic-Tac-Toe or making 3d shapes from playdoh and cutting. whatever activities we didn’t do this week we will get to do next week. We have also been writing autumn sentences with connectives to make them interesting. In Art we have been focusing on line. shape and pattern to create autumn wax resist leaves. We have also been busy in our committees this week.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we had fun exploring the animation app ‘Scratch Junior’. We were able add characters, backgrounds and make our characters move and speak. We gave each other feedback when watching them together. We all really enjoyed this and we plan to do more.
In numeracy we were rounding and estimating.
In literacy we worked with a partner to make a poster about Julia Donaldson. We then did a paired talk to the class, using our poster as an aid. We all put in lots of effort.
We assessed our spelling of common words this week and this will allow us to make personal spelling lists to see which words we still need to work on. Please continue practising at home also.
We had a lovely sunny day for Loose Parts Play with the p1 class. We also liked bench ball this week in PE.

This week we have continued with learning football skills. We were using lots of fun games to practice, dribbling, passing and other footwork skills. Our favourite game is space invaders. In outdoor learning we rotated groups so one group looked and birds and nature, another looked at trees and the third did natural story builders. In Health and Wellbeing we discussed the difference between a big deal and a little deal. We also spoke about the different responses we can have in these situations. We also started Committees this week. Don’t forget to ask me about my Committee. in Art we created colourful Christmas art in preparation for Christmas card printing.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we were learning about a growth mindset and also the learning pit. We worked together in groups to create our own mini plays showing what to do to get out of the learning pit. We had lots of fun and then used our ICT skills to film them. Finally we watched them all on the smartboard like a cinema and gave each other feedback.

In numeracy we are working on estimation and rounding. P2s have been using number lines to see if a number is closer to 0,10 or 20. P3s are rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. We are all learning how to count a collection of objects systematically in groups of 2, 5 and 10.

In spelling we have been working on new spelling rules. P2s are learning ‘ll’ and P3s are learning ‘ay’. We have been doing dictations on the whiteboards and making up our own silly sentences.

Our book of the week was ‘The Cook and the King’ by Julia Donaldson. We practised our grammar and phonics through shared texts and wrote descriptions of the king. P2s were trying to use the connective ‘and’. P3s were using adjectives and a variety of conjunctions. Some were trying similes.

We look forward to seeing some of you at the School Fayre on Saturday.

This week we have started learning  football skills in PE we learnt to say ‘no to the toe’ to make sure we were using the correct part of our foot to dribble. We worked on lots of touches and keeping the ball under our control. we played What’s The Time Mr. Woolf, Traffic Lights and Space Invaders but all with a football twist. For outdoor learning we have split into three groups one group did natural story builders, one focused on leaves and trees and another on birds. we will rotate these groups for the next three weeks until we have covered the three different activities. In Literacy we have been working on writing good sentences. we have been thinking about capital letters, spacing, full stops and making sure they make sense. In Maths we have been exploring 3D shape this week and in Health an wellbeing we have been learning about positive affirmations. In Science we created our own skeleton flip books and have been exploring facts about our skeletons, joints and muscles.

Hello 👋 families,

We have enjoyed our Author Study of Julia Donaldson this week. Our main book was ‘The Smeds and the Smoos’. Our character descriptions were fabulous and we also used the iPads to airdrop our wonderful pictures from the ‘Sketch’ App. We liked giving each other feedback by sharing good examples on the smartboard.

In reading we have been working on fluency and expression. We are working with a range of reading partners and practising our key vocabulary together.
For spelling we have continued to practise common words. Please keep this going at home throughout the year. Next week we shall have a short assessment on these words.

In numeracy we have been looking at place value within 100 for our P2s and 1000 for our P3s. We have been working in groups to order numbers and to create the highest and lowest numbers with digit cards.

We joined P1 again for Loose Parts and demonstrated our School Values well.

This week we have also been talking about the importance of persevering and a growth  mindset. We shared the story ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ and have been nominating people in the class who represent our Learner Characteristics.