This week we were learning all about the story of ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’.
We have been working with P2B to create a lovely corridor display to show off all the work we have been doing. Mrs Miller has been helping us make seagulls and build our very own lighthouse.
We were applying our work on adjectives to create a character profile for Mr Grinling and Mrs Grinling. Here are some of Miss Mudd’s favourite describing words we used:
- Intelligent
- Encouraging
- Caring
- Hard-working
- Jolly
Miss Mudd also set us a design challenge to design a new basket to keep the pesky seagulls out! We had some AMAZING ideas! Some of the baskets were full of sleeping gas to send the seagulls to sleep, some gave out electric shocks, some had scary faces and noises to scare the seagulls away. We wrote sentences to explain how it worked.
We also had a go at weaving our own paper baskets. We had to listen carefully to instructions and follow the steps to create our baskets. It was very fiddly and we had to be patient but it was good fun!
In PE we were developing our team work skills. We were split into teams and had to work out how we were going to get from one side of the hall to the other to deliver Mr Grinling’s lunch on time!! We were only given a mat and a bench. It took a while to come up with some ideas but we communicated well and worked together to solve this tricky problem!
We finished our PE session with some relaxing yoga. Miss Mudd taught us some positions to help us stretch our muscles. We loved the animal names.
In Numeracy we have been finishing our work on place value. We have been using the Numicon to build numbers and we have been partitioning numbers.
We played games to speed up our mental recall. We have also been learning how to add/subtract in multiples of ten – starting with the concrete materials and by the end of the week we were doing it mentally!
As our warm ups this week we have been using the shape fans to consolidate our learning on 2D shape.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Miss Mudd and P2A x
