As part of our IDL focus ‘From Front Door to Seashore’, we have been learning facts about coastal birds and marine mammals. We have also been exploring seashore minibeasts and underwater plants. This week we used non-fiction texts to find out information about otters and puffins. Miss Harrison read us a story called ‘Dylan’s Amazing Dinosaurs’ and we noticed that Dylan used a fact file to record information about a T-Rex. Using our facts, we selected whether to create a fact file about an otter or a puffin. We explored the layout of a fact file and Miss Harrison told us about the different subheadings. Using bullet points and sentences, we created our own fact files. Miss Harrison was so impressed with our fact files and we displayed our school values, confident and resilient, when writing our information.
In Literacy this week we have also been learning the sounds ‘dr’ and ‘fr’. We practised word building on our magnetic boards and we created our own sentences containing ‘dr’ and ‘fr’ words. Some of us also revised the sounds ‘oi’ and ‘oy’.
In Numeracy, we have been learning to find 10 more or less than with numbers to 100. We used a 100-square to help us to count on or count back in tens. Later in the week we looked at comparing numbers. We were able to find the larger or the smaller number with numbers to 100. Some of us played a game where we picked a number each and the person with the larger number scored one point!
In Number Talks, we have been looking at ‘Esti-Mysteries’. Miss Harrison has been showing us different objects in a glass and we have been giving our own estimations. After different clues, we check to see if our estimate is still possible and if not, make a new estimate. Finally, we explain why we chose that estimate. We are really enjoying our Number Talks!
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
P2B and Miss Harrison xxx
