We have had a lovely first week back. In PE we took part in a variety of Halloween themed games, where we worked on our fitness, problem solving, communication and team building skills. In health we have completed work on strategies to use in challenging situations such as using our stop shield, talking to a trusted friend or adult and taking deep breaths…. We have also started discussing the different feelings we feel over the course of a day and how everyone is different. we made feelings flowers and hung them up to make a feelings garden. In math’s we started learning about measuring lengths. We discussed longest, tallest, shortest and  about the same. we discussed how important it is to line objects up  before we measure and we spoke about how many cm are in 1 meter. Don’t forget to ask me about my skills academy!

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

It has been so nice to see everyone after the holidays.
We have all had a great time in our Skills Academies- Lego, animation, games and printing.
We went out in the sunshine for Loose Parts Play with the p1 class and showed great cooperation and creativity with our builds.
We tried hard at the daily mile and also in PE with our fitness challenges.
In writing we are learning to write a good set of instructions. We did dooking for apples and wrote about it!
Our new spelling rules are ‘zz’ in p2 and ‘ea’ in p3. The p3s have started to learn the first joins in handwriting.

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.