Author: WLSusan.Grieve@glow

On Thursday afternoon we invited our parents into The Hive for afternoon tea and a look around the classroom.  We were delighted to finally have parents in!! They enjoyed spending time in the room, looking at their child’s work, looking at the floorbooks which have lots of photographs of their children busy doing a variety of activities, and of course enjoying a cup of tea and some delicious snacks!!

The children had also been to the library on Wednesday to choose a book for their grown ups to read to them.

Thanks to everyone who came, it was lovely to see you all.

Mrs Grieve has been on a course all about Numicon which is a fantastic Maths resource.  The children really benefitted from this and we all explored the Numicons.  We looked at number bonds to 10, as well as ways that they could help us learn some of our times tables.  Then we decided to carry on our learning with the Numicon using paints!

Jess Hepburn from the ASN Team was in to chat to some of our children in The Hive. They had a lovely time together, telling Jess all about what they like about school, what they think the new school should have in it and how The Hive helps them with their learning.

For the last few Fridays the Hive have been able to have a PE lesson in the gym hall with Mrs Grieve and Mr Fazakerley.  We are focusing on gymnastics skills, being safe on the equipment and most of all having fun and keeping fit.

At the beginning of the week we all go down to the Literacy room to choose our reading books for the week.  Mrs Grieve and Mr Fazakerley point us in the right direction for the level we are reading at, then we get to choose which books we will read that week!

For Numeracy last week we were learning how to divide.  We linked our knowledge of the times tables to help us, completed some work station tasks and also used crisps to help our dividing skills!

The children in The Hive have settled into the new year and new term very quickly. We started our workstation tasks this week and have been very productive. We now go to the Library and Literacy room daily to pick our own reading books. We take them back to the Hive, read them at our Workstations then do a linked Writing task. We have rewritten our fiction books and written facts about our non-fiction books.

In Maths we have been learning about fractions. We now know what halves and quarters means, and some of us went on to look at thirds and sixths!

Last week was Book Week and we did a lot of reading based activities in The Hive.

We brought in our favourite books from home.  We read them, wrote about them, made book covers for them and put it all up on a display board in the school.