Author: Miss Hewitt

This week we have been learning –

• spotting mistakes in sentences
• writing sentences of our own remembering the 4 key features
• telling the time on analogue and digital clocks
• adding ten to a number
• totalling coins to pay for items
• about the connections the brain makes when we make mistakes
• defending in basketball
• the ‘oa’ diagraph
• about being good winners
• working out change when paying with different coins
• the correct formation for the letter j
• painting with watercolour paints

 

We thought a bout a recent mistake we had made and how this made us feel (silly, sad, angry, ok, ridiculous, embarrassed), then scrunched it up and threw it away! When we collected our crumpled piece of paper and started colouring all the lines we had made we realised this looked like a brain. This is what happens when we make a mistake – our brain makes lots of connections and helps our brain grow.

 

We corrected missed capitals, capitals in the wrong place, missing full stops, missing words and separated squashed words with finger spaces to make these sentences correct.

 

Our mental maths record 🙂

  

Our oa phonics words we found in the story. Ivo completed his first phonics sentence this week and was very proud 🙂 

Hector was enjoying our money work this week and did an amazing amount of adding to total every single item in our shop! Well done, Hector 🙂

Our first karate session with David this year 

 

Thank you very much to the parents who were able to make it along to the meet the teacher afternoon on Thursday, great to see you! We were so busy doing our watercolour wash art lesson I only got 2 quick photos!

Have a lovely restful weekend 🙂

 

This week we have been learning  –

• starting our spelling programme and using rainbow writing to learn our words this week
• correcting sentences by thinking about what a sentence has to have to be a sentence
• adding and taking away zero and one mentally (Here are the games we use so you can practice at home if you want – https://coolsciencelab.com/math_magician_addition.html    https://coolsciencelab.com/math_magician_subtraction.html)
• TU and some HTU subtraction sums
• identifying 2D and 3D shapes -their names and properties
• taking photos on the iPad
• discussing and understanding a growth mindset and a fixed mindset
• hearing, reading and spelling words with the ai diagraph
• answering questions about our reading books
• chest pass and bounce pass in P.E

Our fabulous best scores from mental maths this week

Some of the 2D shapes we found outside

3D shape hunt

Ivo was working with an adult on spelling out 3 letter words and made loads!

Ivo building bridges for his police car during a choosing time he earned for completing all his  literacy work

 

Mariam has been chosen to work with a group of girls in the school on developing girls’ confidence. This week they went on a trip to a local café and Miss McCue said how confident she was 🙂

Subhan’s birthday is this weekend so we had a party for him on Friday afternoon. Here are the party goers, tired and ready for home after a busy week!

See you next week,  in September!

 

We had our first trip of the year to Linn Park Adventure today and the sun shone for us! Today was Aiyub’s first time ever at Adventure and he had lots of fun exploring with the class and exercising outside. We had a special ice cream treat too, yum 🙂

Scooting, swinging, spinning, climbing & running – working up our appetite for lunch!

Investigating some of the new things at Adventure this year

Enjoying some ice-cream after lunch 🙂

Wow, first full week complete already! We have had a very busy week in Class 2 starting to get into our routine. We have been doing some assessments to see what we remember from last year and what things we still need to learn.

Some of our learning this week has been –

• TU addition and subtraction sums (using counters, number lines and mental maths strategies)
• doubles add sums
• counting in patterns
• reading and comprehension work with our new reading books
• revising phonics sounds
• creating some leaf and bark rubbings
• discussing our feelings and behaviours
• some team building games in P.E with P6/7
• setting targets for the term

Today we had a party in class to celebrate Hector’s birthday which was earlier in the week. We had some delicious party food chosen by the birthday boy and played some games in class – a lovely end to a very busy week.

Miss Hewitt is super proud of how well everyone has settled in and how hard everyone has been working already.

Hope you all have a restful weekend ready for even more learning next week 🙂

 

Working on our leaf & bark rubbings to create a group art project

Hector found this tiny slug outside in the garden

Our first class party 🙂

 

Welcome to our new blog for this school year!

The first week whizzed in with 3 days in class for the children. We did lots of settling in activities and got to know each other better.

We all designed our bear based on different choices. Nobody’s bear was exactly the same because we are all different but everyone had some similarities.

We discussed what we want our class to be like this year and used this to make the class rules together. Some fantastic answers and I’m sure it will be a great year judging by these answers!

 

This week we will be starting work on our more set timetable which includes P.E on Tuesdays (bring P.E kit please – shorts or joggers and a t-shirt) and the usual trips on Wednesday with Class 2  starting with swimming (bring swimming kit please).

Check back soon for more updates on our learning this week 🙂