We’ve had a busy week back. Thank you for the boxes for our junk modelling. Next week we’ll start making our ‘dark, dark town’ for the Beebots and use the skills we’ve learned this week as part of EU Code Week.

We’ve had lots of fun learning about sequencing and the instructional language we need to help us create our own codes. First we followed a simple set of instructions – walk forwards, turn, backwards, turn, clap, thumbs up etc. –  and had great fun giving our friends instructions in the playground to get to various places. We then had a tinker with the Beebots around the classroom and practised programming them to manoeuvre around obstacles.

Today we wrote our own codes for the whole class to follow. We used this knowledge to help the squirrel find its nuts, avoiding the many obstacles in its way – a snake, a giant spider and a curious cat among others!

Also this week we have learned the sounds ‘o’ and ‘l’. For ‘o’ we made an octopus and for ‘l’ a ladybird and a ‘leafy lion’. We’re doing a great job remembering our phonics, please continue to practise these at home.

In numeracy we’re finishing up our block on numbers to 10 and are starting to move on to addition.

In our outdoor learning we were excited to see all the leaves that had fallen in the holidays. We’ve been collecting lots of leaves and identifying the deciduous trees that they’re from. We used these for our leafy lions and for leaf rubbing. We worked particularly hard with our leaf rubbing and were amazed at the different parts of the leaf we could see. We put the leaves on our autumn tree in the window and discussed how it will change through the seasons.

Here are some pictures of our learning we’ve chosen to share this week: