This week we met Miss Devonshire. Miss Devonshire is training to be a teacher and she will be with us lots from now until the summer. We all made her feel very welcome; she was very impressed by our enthusiasm for learning.
Our focus in Phonics this week was ‘magic e’ split digraph o-e. We are able to identify ‘magic e’ words in our reading books – this is something you could do at home too. Here’s an o-e memory game you could play:
http://www.galacticphonics.com/longvowels/o-e/interactive/memory/memory.htm
In Maths we started our new focus – multiplication.
We know that we might hear these words: sets of, multiply, times, arrays.
We learned how to draw an array to solve multiplication problems. When pictures or objects are put into columns and rows, it is called an array.
We know to use the first numbers to tell us how many dots to draw in the column. Then we take the second number to tell us how many rows to draw. As well as drawing arrays we made arrays using objects. We picked this up really quickly and loved making arrays with pictures:
We began our Victorians topic by making a mind map about what we already know and what we would like to know. Lots of us were interested to learn about toys Victorian children played with, jobs children did and what school was like in the Victorian times. Next week we are going to learn about the jobs children did.
In Art we looked at Victorian buildings and identified the features. We noticed that all Victorian buildings had chimneys and criss-cross windows so we made sure to include these in our drawings:
Some of us painted a cobbled street with Miss Devonshire. We are going to create a Victorian street in our classroom.
Weather permitting we will be going on our trip to the park on Tuesday.
Have a great weekend!
Love P2A and Mrs Bell x
