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Class 1 had a lovely week with new experiences and fun!!

We celebrated “Book Week” and, in line with our topic, we worked with Pinocchio!! We enjoyed the story and we learned a lot about puppets and the different materials that can e made of. We stated with the sock puppets; the kids chose their sock and they decorated them using their imagination.  Marionettes were the next puppet we explored. We found out that we have to use our fingers and strings in order to move these puppets. The kids had the opportunity to gain the experience of Shadow Puppetry and set up their own Puppet Shadow play using the characters from the Pinocchio story.

In maths, we started working with money. This week we focused on identifying coins up to 20p/50p and £2. The kids worked really hard and next week we will set up our own Toy shop! In Literacy, we worked with the sound “n” and “ie” as well as blending sounds in order to read cvc/ccvc words.

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The last 2 weeks, class 1 is working really hard with our IDL topic, History of Toys.

During the first week, we explored the fantasy world of Toy Story and we learnt lots of stuff about our favourite characters, Woody and Buzz. We also tried to make our own Mr Potate Head and I believe that we did it great!!!   In literacy, we practised the sound ” T for toys”  by making crafts, printing the sound and plying lots of active games. We also made a missing poster of our favourite toy by writing a small description of that. In science, we talked about different materials and we checked by which material our favourite toys are made of.

In week 2, we gave emphasis on old and new toys by sharing experiences about my childhood and the toys I was playing with when I was in their age. We learnt about the differences between old and toys focusing on the materials that they were made of. I introduced to the kids the old game ” cups and ball” and we made our own toys. We tried many many many times to throw the ball into the cup, at the end we made it!!! During this week, we learnt about the printing method and Andy Warhol. The kids made amazing printings inspired by him. Finally in maths, we focused on numbers bonds to 5 (Mariam, Abdul, Muhsin), 10 (Joshua, Diego), 20( Murray), on place value- tens and units- (Sorley, Zainab) as well as on comparing groups of toys using the words “more” and “less”.

Check all our amazing work and of course the lovely toys the kids built up in their free time.

PS: I promise that next time I will upload more photos !!

Hello!!

Class 1 has had lots for fun this week with lots of different Halloween themed activities.

In maths this week we have been learning about to count up to 20/30. For our maths topic we have started to learn about 2D/ 3D shapes. Ask us to see if we remember any of the names of these shapes. We have also practised sharing in two groups using pumpkin seeds.

We have continued to learn our sounds. This week we have been focused on the sound p for pumpkin. Sorley worked hard with his writing this week giving a lovely description of the witch by adding wow adjectives.

Check our video for all the amazing learning and experience 😊