We have taken advantage of the sunny weather this week. We have been doing ‘Walk a Mile’ most days and we had maths outside on Wednesday. It made a nice change and we think the fresh air helps our learning. We have been subtracting using number lines and we made a large one using round mats that we could jump along to find our answers and use our bodies to understand how to take away on a number line. We also used a large ten frame to find our answers and did lots of other fun subtraction games.
We are continuing our outer maths topic ‘money’. The children visited ‘Kennedy’s Fruit and Veg’ shop and they had to help Mrs Kennedy to work out the change they needed as Mrs Kennedy wasn’t very good at it! We have been playing with money in our Garden Centre and playing money games with our friends.
We have been looking at transient art with natural resources over the past couple of weeks. We learned about Andy Goldsworthy – a very talented outdoor artist. We tried our own art outside and have been playing with natural resources to create pictures indoors too.
When we arrived into school on Monday, we discovered that the warm weather had encouraged our butterflies to hatch, a little earlier than expected. We have really enjoyed watching them closely this week and looking after them. We agreed they really would like to be outside with lots of space to fly. We released them on Thursday and they certainly seemed happy to be outdoors – a lovely ending to our Life Cycle topic.
On Friday we watched Newsround, we really enjoyed watching the news and we learned a lot about the Royal Wedding happening this weekend. Then we enjoyed designing dresses, cakes and/or football strips (Two big football matches this weekend too). We even had some visitors from P3 who quite fancied joining us to design dresses!
Have a lovely weekend. From P1B and Mrs Kennedy
