P1D Highlights of the Week

Shea: I have liked the Lego this week because you can build loads of things. I made an alien with a blue brick and 2 heads. I put 2 arms on him and 2 heads then put a brick inside him and then 2 legs.

Roma: I liked going into my new classroom because we got to make bears. You needed to cut out the bits of the bears and then glue it on because we were doing ‘going on a bear hunt’.

Michelle: I liked going to P2 because we got to sit at any table we wanted too. I sat beside Igor.

Cordelle: I’ve liked sports day because you needed to do different activities. I liked when you were throwing the wellies in the big tyre. I think I got 2 in.

Paul: I liked going to P2 today because it was Miss Lydon that was teacher.

Pati: I liked playing in the house corner because it is fun. I was playing with dolls and playing mummy and big sister.

Rojin: I liked the house corner because my friends were playing with me. We were playing kittens.

Celine: I liked reading because it is easy for me to read. My book is ‘In the Garden’. The children got small.

Amelia: I liked playing with the cubes because they are very fun to play with and you can do anything with them.

Jane: I liked being in the P2 classroom because it was nice and I liked making a bear.

Carter: I liked winning the running race at sports day.

Anna: I liked doing writing this week about health week.

Luke: I liked number talks this week because I like talking to my partner.

Igor: I liked playing with the house corner. I was doing food.

Logan: I liked playing with Lego because I like making ships with a car.

Scott: I liked the green rainbow learning where you had to write things on a paper for your teacher for P2.

We are looking forward to a week full of fun next week for the last week of term.

Have a lovely weekend.

P1D Health Week

Relax Kids

Lucas: we played a game, when the lady lifted up the elephant or the chipmunk you had to act like it.

Shea: we stretched.

Freya: there was a ball and it went out and in and it done it as the same time as us.

Anna: we were doing back rubbing, we were in a line and we had to back rub.

 

Outdoors Play

Logan: we tried to get the ball in the hula hoops and someone could steal the balls. I was in the yellow team but we didn’t win.

Cordelle: you steal from the other team if you ran out of balls.

Rojin: we played on the trim trail, I went fast on it.

Yoga

Roma: we done a butterfly, you have to put your feet together and then you flap your legs.

Paul: we done boat pose, you lie on your tummy and put your feet up and try to hold your feet up.

Carter: we done a gorilla pose, you have to swing your arms at your chest.

Freya: we were doing the bird pose, you lie on your tummy and put your feet up to the sky and make a triangle shape with your hands and hand and try to lift your legs up without shaking.

 

Health Week Maths

Layla: we had to take the skin off bananas and cut up pieces – two of them.

Celine: you made the banana in half, half needs to be the same size.

Shea: you then cut it into quarters – you cut it into 4.

Scott: then we eat the bananas.

Jane: we had to sort the food from the very hungry caterpillar story. We sorted it in healthy, unhealthy or in the middle.

Rojin: the apple was healthy.

Amelia: cupcake was unhealthy.

Anna: cheese would be in the middle because if you eat too much then it can be unhealthy.

 

NYCOS

Carter: someone had to sing if you have the ball. If I had the ball other people would sing ‘Carter has the ball’ and I would sing ‘can you catch it Shea’ or who I wanted to catch it.

Shea: you had to make a circle and someone was sitting in the middle and there was a drum. Someone played the drum and the person in the middle had to guess who was playing the drum.

 

Synergy

Pati: 1 person would spin the wheel and it had a number and the lady told us what to do. I done star jumps.

Lucas: We I spun the wheel it landed on air punches.

Layla: we didn’t have time to get to 24!

 

Food Tasting

Roma: we were eating food. We ha watermelon, it is a fruit. It was very yummy.

Pati: we had carrot. It is a vegetable and it was good.

Logan: we had cucumber, it’s a vegetable. It was delicious.

Anna: we had raspberries, it is a fruit. They are my favourite fruit.

Cordelle: we had mango and it’s a fruit. It was delicious.

Lucas: we had red pepper. I liked it a little bit. It was the first time I tried it.

 

Tough Mudder

Amelia: we had jump over the seats.

Roma: you needed to go under the parachute.

Cordelle: you went in and out the tyres.

Carter: you had to go through the bamboo sticks.

Paul: you had to jump over benches.

Anna: we went over 2 tunnels.

Shea: it was raining, it was wet.

Jane: my trousers got muddy!

 

Taewkondo

Michelle: you had a partner and 1 person had a pad. The other person had to run over and punch the pad.

Mara: you had to kick the pads. I kicked the top of the pad. My partner was Jane.

 

Dance

Carter: at the end you had to jump and do a cool pose. I done a hand stand.

 

Our Highlights

Scott: my favourite was tasting the food. My favourite was the carrot.

Michelle: I liked tough mudder because you got messy.

Mara: I liked tough mudder because you went under the parachute.

Celine: My favourite was tasting the fruits and vegetables because it was healthy.

P1D Highlights

Our highlights of the week are:

Celine: I liked the yellow rainbow learning. You had to read the number word on the smart board and press the number on the fruit. I scored 30.

Here is the link for the game for you to play at home:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/fruitShootNumbersWords.htm

Paul: I liked the green rainbow learning. You had to get a story and write your favourite bit of the story and write the title and draw a picture of what happened in the story. I picked Shark in the Park. I liked the end bit when they were walking over the bridge and there was a tail of a shark under it.

Roma: I liked the party for my mummy. We had a party because she went somewhere. She went to awards and she won a trophy because she is the best head teacher. I was happy. I liked the balloons at the party.

Igor: I liked PE and playing bean bag scramble. You had to take the bean bag from the middle and take one from another person. I was in the green and then yellow team. I won.

Check out our twitter for another video of one of our PE activties @mrsd_stnps

Layla: I liked playing in the house corner playing dolls. I was putting shoes and boots off the dolls and then back on again and took her a walk. I took her to the pretend park and went on the slide. She is called Sarah.

Anna: I liked the tuff tray. I was making food. There was chef stuff.

Scott: I liked the yellow rainbow learning and press the numbers on the smart board.

Jane: I liked the green rainbow learning and doing the book review. I picked ‘Eric Makes a Splash’. I liked it and my favourite bit was when Eric gets invited to the swimming pool party.

Rojin: I liked RE. I liked learning about the seasons.

Shea: I liked the pink rainbow learning. You had to play the toys in the calming corner. Then you add to answer the question ‘how do you feel about moving to P1’. You had to cut out the picture of how you were feeling and stick it on.

This would be a good opportunity to speak to your child about changes next year.

Lucas: I liked the party with Mrs Purdie because she went to a place and she won an award because she was the best head teacher. I liked that there was music at the party.

Luke: I liked the blue rainbow learning. You had to put the number words in order.

Pati: I liked the red rainbow learning. You had to do the 1 minute timer and write some sounds.

Logan: I liked the yellow rainbow learning and you press the numbers on the smart board. I scored 21.

Michelle: I liked the red rainbow learning. You have to write sounds and you have to get a timer and write the sounds but when the timer runs out you stop.

Freya: I liked the pink rainbow learning. You had to think about how you were feeling. I was feeling happy and I stuck it on the white piece of paper then you could play with some calming toys.

Amelia: I liked RE with Mrs Howley because I learned about seasons. I learned what is in the seasons.

P1D News

Here are the areas of our classroom which we wanted to tell you about this week:

Board Games

Scott: there is a piggies game. You have to roll the dice and build the house. If you land on the wolf you blow the house down and steal a house from someone else.

Amelia: in the beanie boos game there is a little elephant. You start the game in the yellow star and you roll the dice and move spaces. Then you need to land on a shape and pick the shape and look if it is the colour. If it is your colour you get to keep it, if it’s a different colour you put it back.

Roma: I liked that game too.

Carter: I liked the animals jigsaw because it was quite hard and challenging for us.

Investigation Station

Lucas: there are wee bugs and you could play with them.

Anna: there were cards that you could read about the insects and you could find out information about them. I found out that butterflies lay 50 eggs in a season.

Carter: I learned that every year an ant goes up a tree and find food to hibernate.

Layla: I learned that butterflies can fly.

Freya: We could take the little cups outside and to put animals into the cup and then close the lid and then take them back into the classroom. I found a snail so people could see it.

Logan: I saw a baby snail.

We used the story ‘Superworm’ as our inspiration for this. Here is a link to the story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpN4dftXLI

Numeracy Area

Pati: there are clocks because we were learning about time. I can make 5 o’clock. The little hand at the 5 and the big one at the 12.

Celine: we learned about half past too.

Lucas: Half past 5. The big hand would be at 6 because it went half way around the clock and the little hand would be a little bit past the 5.

We enjoyed playing this game to support our learning this week:

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time

and we really enjoyed this song:

Tuff Tray

Shea: it was a clock. We used pipe cleaners for the clock and you had to make a time on the clock. 5 o’clock would be the big hand at the 12 and the small hand at 5.

Fiddly Fingers

Cordelle: there were pegs and marbles and you put pegs on the blue board and then put marbles on the pegs.

Rainbow Learning

Paul: you had to find all the sounds in the story. I was finding the ‘oa’ sound.

Carter: I was looking for the ai sound – the ‘a and i’ and ‘a and y’. One word was snail and the other was nail.

Rojin: I was looking for the ‘th’ sound. One of my words Beth, the ‘th’ sound is at the end.

Logan: I was looking for the ee sound. It is 2 e’s.

Igor: Bee was in the tree.

Each group were given a printed story where they had to find as many of the sounds they have been working on as possible. The sounds we have been working on this week are:

ai/ay

th

oa

ee/oo

Michelle: for the green rainbow learning you had to write some sounds on the computers or the ipads.

Luke: you had to remember what letters to do.

Do you have a whiteboard app on a device at home where you could practise writing your sounds? We were also using microsoft word to type our sounds too.

Roma: the yellow rainbow learning was a time game on the smart board. You had to look at the clock and then you had to press the time that matched it.

The link for this game is above and was also shared on twitter.

Mara: the analogue clock is the clock is the one with hands and the numbers one is digital.

Jane: for the pink rainbow learning you needed to paint a picture of someone who could help you. I painted Mrs Davenport.

Logan: they are heroes.

Luke: I painted a police man.

Anna: I painted a teacher.

Amelia: I painted a teacher.

Lucas: for the purple rainbow learning you had to close your eyes and pick someone’s name. Then you got a heart and drew a picture of the person you picked. You had to cut it out. Mrs Davenport helped us write what was special about that person.

This activity is part of our ‘building resilience’ block of learning about our class family. Did you see our video on twitter about our partner obstacle course which also promoted our class family.

 

Writing

Layla: there was a bear in our classroom on a chair he was holding a book about a bear.

Cordelle: we read the story that he had it was about a bear and a house.

Here is a link to the story:

Freya: the words in the story all rhymed. We talked to our talking partner about rhyming words and then when we figured out our rhyming words we were writing them.

Shea: I wrote “a dog walked into the fog and ate a log.”

Luke: “Mouse in the house.”

Carter: “the fox in the box wearing socks.”

 

NYCOS

On Tuesday, we participated in a session of NYCOS with Mrs Curl. We have 2 more sessions of NYCOS to go and we really enjoyed it. Mrs Curl was very impressed with all the boys and girls who wanted to sing on their own!

Roma: we read a story about a frog sitting on a log.

Freya: in the book there was a frog and he didn’t know what to sit on. Then the cat said that frogs sit on logs.

This is the story we are talking about:

Carter: we played with the parachute.

Anna: there was a bee in something and it grew out of the stick.

 

Lanthorn

Carter: we were going to mass to hear the readings.

Shea: Jesus went up to heaven.

We went to mass at the Lanthorn to celebrate the feast of the Ascension.

 

P1D Class News

Our Classroom Areas

Luke: there is a fire station at the investigation station.

Shea: you can drive the cars.

Logan: you put out the fire and you use the helicopter.

Pati: at the fiddly fingers you can make a picture. I made a symmetrical picture with flowers.

Carter: you can use all the loose parts.

Roma: I made a symmetrical picture by putting a line in the middle and a love heart at both sides.

 

Rainbow Learning

Scott: At the red rainbow learning you had to write your name 4 times. I wrote Scott Russell.

Shea: you had to make sure you had a capital letter at both of your names.

Jane: you don’t put capital letters in the middle of your name.

Practise writing your full name at home. Make sure you only use a capital letter for your first and surname. Not in the middle of your name!

Anna: the green rainbow learning was on the smart board and you had to beat Mrs Davenport’s score.

Roma: the smart board told you a word and you need to listen to the word and then you have to pick the first sound in the word. All the words started with 2 sounds.

Luke: I scored 70.

Carter: I scored 200. I beat Mrs Davenport.

Amelia: I scored 256.

Layla: I scored 20.

This game focuses on blends at the beginning of a word e.g sm at the beginning of smug. Have a go at home using the link below:

http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/bowling_alley_US.swf

Pati: at the blue rainbow learning you have to count the picture and put a peg on the number.

Luke: I counted 6.

Carter: I counted 10.

Rojin: I counted 17.

Lucas: at the yellow rainbow learning I was counting the numicon. If there was a 10 numicon and a 5 numicon I knew it was 15.

Shea: If there was 10 and 8 it would be 18. I didn’t need to count that.

Mara: if there was a 10 and a 6 it would be 16. I didn’t need to count to it.

 

Amelia: at the pink rainbow learning you had to draw a picture of your back up team.

Luke: that means people that would help you.

Carter: it is people that you help you if you are sad and that make you happy.

Celine: my mum, dad and granny was in my picture.

Roma: my back up team is my mum, my dad and my friend.

Rojin: my mum, dad and little brother are in my back up team.

Why don’t you send in a photograph of your back-up team or draw a picture of them to give to Mrs Purdie who will put this on our display in the hall.

Cordelle: at the purple rainbow learning you had to make a picture of something that could help you, like a fire engine or a police car.

Michelle: you weren’t allowed to draw pictures but you had to count out different shapes.

Anna: I made a fire engine. I cut out circles and a rectangle.

Logan: I used a triangle and circles and squares for the windows of a fire engine.

Scott: I made a doctor helicopter. I made it with blue paper.

Luke: I used a square and a circle for the windows at the back of the fire engine.

 

Phonics

Amelia: I learned the ‘ou’ sound. It is a black sound because it lives in the vowel house.

Carter: you use an ‘o’ then a ‘u’ to make the sound.

We were all learning about the ‘ou’ sound this whilst revising some other sounds which we have found tricky. Here is a link for the ‘ou’ song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvdehRHSBXY

Shea: the ‘ch’ sound is green because it comes from every part of your mouth.

Celine: chomp has the ‘ch’ sound.

Rojin: chip has the ‘ch’ sound.

Pati: the ‘oa’ is an ‘o’ and ‘a’.

Luke: it is a black sound because it lives in the vowel house.

Layla: the ‘ee’ sound is like a donkey sound.

Logan: the ‘oo’ sound is like a ghost.

 

National Digital Learning Week

Jane: we made a film about people who help. I made a police video with Luke, Carter and Shea.

Roma: Luke was a robber and Carter was trying to get robber. Me and Rojin were doing the work on the computer.

Carter: Luke tried to escape but I closed him in the jail.

Shea: I made the video and I had to press the button to record.

Michelle: I made a video about the hospital.

Anna: Igor fell and me and Michelle picked him up and we bandaged him up. My job was a doctor. Freya was the film maker.

Cordelle: I made a video of the vets. Layla was a cow and she got hurt.

Layla: Cordelle helped me she gave me a jag.

Amelia: I made the video and I shouted ‘action’ and when it was the end I said ‘stop’.

Scott: my group was at the fire station. There was a fire in the shops and the fire engine came to put the fire out.

Logan: Lucas was making the film for my group.

Lucas: when I started it I had to say ‘action’ and press the red button.

 

Have a lovely long weekend, see you on Tuesday.

Mrs Davenport and P1D

P1D Weekly News

Roma: At the red rainbow learning you need to write the sounds and you had to trace the sound and the writing was joined up. I was practising the igh sound joined up.

Lucas: you had to join the letters up I was joining the ee sound and the ai sound.

Cordelle: I liked joining the letters together. It was tricky but when I practised I was able to do it. It made me happy.

Carter: On the green rainbow learning you had to make numbers with loose parts. One of my numbers was one thousand, you need 1 and then 3 zeros.

Logan: I made the number ten, you need a 1 and a zero.

Amelia: On the blue rainbow learning was a smart board game. You had to pick a level to play and then you had to listen for the smart board to say a number and we need to press it. I found the number 19.

Here is a link to the game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

Mara: The yellow rainbow learning was the tuff tray you need to write 10 sounds in the sand on the tuff tray. I wrote m, ee and e.

Scott: I made some sounds at the tuff tray. I made i and a.

Igor: I liked writing sounds in the sand in the tuff tray. I wrote b, o, c and m.

Jane: For fiddly fingers you had to make puppets. I made a teacher puppet. You need to cut the person out and colour them in and then put pins in to stick the body together. There was also a vet and doctor.

Anna: All the puppets were all jobs. You could make a teacher and police.

Roma: There was a nurse too.

Phonics

Michelle: we were learning the ‘oi’ sound.

Carter: The oi sound lives in the lift in the vowel house. ‘boy’ has the ‘oi’ sound.

Freya: the ‘oy’ go at the end of a word and the ‘oi’ goes in the middle of the word.

Michelle: if the ‘oi’ sound is at the beginning of a word you use ‘oi’ not ‘oy’.

Rojin: I was playing ‘sh’ bingo. A ‘sh’ word is shoe.

Shea: I was learning the ‘sh’ sound. I know that ‘sh’ is for shark.

Amelia: Me and Anna got the golden ticket because we can read all the sight words.

Anna: We showed them to Mrs Smith. She was happy.

Here is a link to the oi song we have been listening to in class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjOtMya-ZPQ

We also watched this video to help us think about words with this sound in it:

Numeracy

Carter: we were learning about the word ‘larger’.

Pati: larger means bigger. 11 is larger than 10.

Roma: 19 is larger than 14.

RE

Carter: We went for a little tour at the church, St Phillips.

Freya: Father Kenneth gave us the tour. The light was there and that meant the special things about Jesus were there.

Anna: I saw the clothes that the priest wears.

Lucas: The bowl is where you get baptised.

Rojin: I saw the cup where you put something in it to drink.

PE

Lucas: we were learning about athletics.

Shea: we were jumping like kangaroos. You need to bounce.

Rojin: we were playing with the parachute.

Freya: we played the cat and the mouse game with the parachute. I was lying down under the parachute so no one could tig me but they did.

Paul: I liked playing with the parachute because we made it like a tent.

P1D Highlights

Here are our highlights this week:

Pati: I liked reading this week. My book was about Sam and Tam going to the mud.

Luke: I liked the red rainbow learning. You had to match the eggs with words that rhymed that means they sound the same. I matched wall and ball.

Can you think of any other words that rhyme?

What rhymes with man? Shop? Yellow?

Igor: I liked the blue rainbow learning. I had to count numbers with cereal. I counted 11.

Can you find something exciting to count with? How long would it take you to count all of your breakfast cereal?!

Layla: I liked PE, I was jumping. I jumped really high.

Anna: I liked doing our topic about jobs. I learned what peoples jobs help us with. A teacher helps boys and girls learn.

Who would help you if you found an injured animal?

Who would help you if you didn’t feel safe in the water at the swimming pool?

Roma: I liked the blue rainbow learning. You needed to get cheerios and glue them on to the 20 frame. A 20 frame is like 10 and 10, I made the number 19 so I had one empty bit on my 20 frame.

Michelle: I liked doing the high jump in PE. I jumped over the rope.

Mara: I liked the high jump in PE because I jumped very high.

Paul: I liked the red rainbow learning you had to match the Easter eggs with rhyming words. A rhyming word has the same letters at the end of the word. I matched wig and pig.

Jane: I liked the green rainbow learning. You had to listen to the word on the smart board and then you had to find the word that matched because it rhymes. Tree and bee rhymes.

Here is a link to the game we played:

http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/washing_line_rhyme_US.swf

Scott: I liked writing about going to the desert island. A monster went to the desert island and he liked shells and the whale took him to the waves and he found a ship wreck and a treasure chest.

What would happen if a cat went to a desert island?

Shea: I liked doing the green rainbow learning, you had to match the rhyming words on the smart board like wall and ball. The same letters at the end makes words rhyme.

Carter: I liked the builders site this week. I was building lots of things, so many that I can’t remember but I did build a house. It had a big roof but looked like a space rocket.

Lucas: I liked the pink rainbow learning. You had to match up the things that people would help you with. A policeman could help you find someone if you get lost.

Amelia: I liked making the horse in the tuff tray. I used a big stick and I put on the horses head and the tail. I stick up with cellotape.

Rojin: I liked going to the library, we had to take back our books then we picked new books. I picked a book about a green dog and a green squirrel.

What was the book that you picked from the library?

P1D Weekly News

Here is what we have enjoyed doing this week:

Luke: I liked the squirrel game because the squirrel pops out. I was playing it with Logan and Mara and Logan made the squirrel pop out.

Roma: At the investigation station you got marshmallows and you made a constellation with them. It’s a shape that stars make. I called my constellation ‘star’.

Anna: I counted to 28 in 2’s at the numeracy station.

We watched this counting in 2’s video to help us:

Jane: I was playing with slime in the tuff tray. There was purple slime and blue slime. It felt slimy.

Michelle: At the fiddly fingers I was swirling the pipe cleaner around the sticks. I made a snake with it.

Pati: At the blue rainbow learning I was counting on in 2’s on the smart board. I bet Mrs Davenport’s score.

Here is the link for the game we were playing:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/BalloonPopSkip.htm

Amelia: At the green rainbow learning I need to read the sentence and when we read the sentence you draw the picture.

Shea: At the red rainbow learning you had to make 10 sounds with the pipe cleaners. I made the ‘n’ and ‘b’ sound.

Lucas: At the purple rainbow learning you had to draw lines on the rocket. I drew squiggly lines, dotty lines, spiraly lines an dotty lines.

Try this at home, it is trickier than you think. Find a picture but don’t colour it in – only use lines to fill the design. What other types of lines can you think of to use?

Freya: At the yellow rainbow learning you had to fill in the missing numbers when counting in 2’s like 2, 4, 6, 8.

Carter: I liked my reading book this week. It was called ‘In the Garden’. They were playing in the garden and then Kipper had the key and it was starting to glow and they had an adventure in the garden because that takes them on an adventure wasn’t there. They tried to get there but it was too late.

Rojin: We saw P6 and P7 doing their show. We got to actually see what happened to Jesus. I liked the good Samaritan part of the show.

Logan: We made an alien story on mighty writer. The alien went on a rocket to Earth. Then he went back on his rocket and went back to his planet and put a flag on it.

Can you remember what happened in your alien story?

Paul: In the 20 green bottles song, if 1 fell there would be 19 left then another 1 fell and there would 18. It went all the way down to 0.

We listened to the 10 green bottles song below, and then to make it a bit more challenging we thought about what would happen if there were 20 green bottles! Here is the song we used to begin with:

Layla: Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.

Mara: We learned about Easter in Spain. There are lots of eggs. We saw videos of people carrying something heavy. Here is one of the videos we watched about the Easter procession:

Igor: We went on an egg hunt in the nursery and we need to find the egg. Then we eat it. It was chocolate and yummy.

Cordelle: I made a symmetrical picture with peg boards. That means it’s the same on both sides.

Have a lovely Easter break with your families.

P1D Update

This week we have fully embraced the changes to our classroom. Each week some of the main areas in our classroom are changed to offer different learning experiences. We are going to share the highlights of these areas:

Investigation Station

Learning focus – measuring, ordering, sorting

Rojin: You need to put the things in the plates in the thing to make the balance.

Lucas: it is a measuring thing.

Carter: it is called scales.

Shea: it is space rocks in the plate.

Roma: you need to make them balance. I put 3 little beads in one bit and 3 green beads in the other bit and it didn’t balance. One bit went down when I added another and that meant it was heavy.

Logan: I made it balance with rocks and beads.

Table Top Games

Learning focus: counting, addition and subtraction skills. (Jigsaws – developing visual perceptual skills.)

Anna: one was a magic game. It was magic because when you rubbed on a bit then it would leave a number. You had to answer the question and find the answer.

Roma: I done the animal jigsaw with my friends – Rojin, Freya and Jane.

Scott: There is a space jigsaw. I had to put the pieces all together.

Carter: Me and Anna finished that jigsaw. Anna started it and I came to help. It was quite tricky.

Paul: Earth is third planet away from the sun.

Maths Table

Learning focus – symmetry

Jane: we had to make symmetrical pictures.

Luke: it means it has to be the same on the 2 sides.

Roma: I put 2 flowers on one side and put 2 gems on the bottom and I copied it on the other side too.

Carter: I done green beads and put a chain in the middle and a flower at one side and a flower at the other side.

Tuff Tray

Learning focus – creativity, reinforcing the names of planets

Igor: we had to build a rocket for an astronaut. The rocket would go to Earth.

Shea: My rocket went to Mars. First I had 2 full big ramps at the bottom of it and a head at the front and a massive long red bit at the side on top of the little hills.

Layla: Mine went to the moon. It had yellow on it.

Fiddly Fingers

Learning focus: fine motor skills

Pati: there were small things put it together. It made a necklace.

Lucas: they were paperclips.

Rojin: I made a bracelet. It was tricky putting them together.

Roma: We had the marbles and the colourful pegs that you stick in the blue mats and you have to get the marble and balance on top.

Rainbow Learning

Scott: For the red rainbow learning you had to write sight words.

Anna: For the yellow rainbow learning you had to do a subtraction colouring in.

Pati: On the blue you had to catch the fish.

If the subtraction story was 8-4, you would have 8 fish to start with and you would take away 4 and you would have 4 left.

Amelia: On the green rainbow learning we played a smart board game tells us a word and we need to find it. When you finish you write down the score. I bet Mrs Davenport’s score.

Here is a link to the game. Mrs Davenport’s score was 379, can you beat this?

Amelia’s sore was 400, can you beat this?

http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/4151

Lucas: On the pink rainbow learning we were thinking about what we want to be when we grow up. You had to draw a picture of what you wanted to be when you grow up.

Freya: You need to get a glue stick and stick the pom-poms or stars and you would need to make the shape and pick out the picture and stick the pom-poms on. It was called a constellation.

Numeracy

Luke: We have been taking away.

Anna: You had to roll the dice and the biggest number had to write in and then the smallest number next. You were making a subtraction story.

Shea: The biggest number needs to go first because if it was 2 – 5 it wouldn’t make any sense. It would need to be 5 – 2.

Try this at home – roll 2 dice and put these numbers into a subtraction story. Challenge: roll 4 dice (first add together 2 of the dice and add together the other 2 side), use these numbers to create a subtraction story.

Phonics

Carter: we learning about syllables.

Lucas: it is clapping that makes a word.

Shea: the words are split up.

Amelia: my name has 4 syllables.

Layal: my name has 2 syllables.

Jane: my name has 1 syllable.

We loved watching this video to help us understand syllables:

Topic – Space

We were learning about astronauts.

Anna: The astronauts have to sleep in space. They sleep in a bag because if they didn’t they would float away.

Shea: There is a rope that attaches them to the bed.

Carter: Astronauts sleep in their own room.

Carter: They have to pee a tube!

Rojin: They take food to space and it gets kept in a bag.

We watched these videos to help us understand more about what astronauts do in space when they are on a space station:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-34883623/sleeping-quarters-on-the-iss

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35367139

Highlights of the Week

Olivier: I liked playing in the house corner making fruit with Lucas, Scott and Igor.

Mara: I liked learning about space. I learned about rockets and planets.

Michelle: I liked the rainbow learning. My favourite was the pink one.

P1D News

Our Classroom

Roma: there is a space station. You need to put on a job card and if you have got the manager card you need to tell all the other people what to do.

Pati: the house corner is different, we don’t have bits of food in it now.

Scott: there is a building site, you can build the houses.

Freya: We don’t have an office anymore but we have a writing area. I took some paper and pens and I draw pictures.

Anna: There is an arts and crafts table to make stuff. You have to get the paints and things yourself.

Jane: There is an investigation station too.

Carter: You can mix flour, sugar with glitter and sand and water. You have to write what is in it and see what happens when you mix it and then pour it away and tidy up.

Lucas: All the tables have come apart and we don’t have a seat. We have to put our shoes in the same place as outdoor shoes. There is still a special teaching table for doing work.

Phonics

Amelia: we learned the qu sound.

Roma: it comes from 2 parts of your mouth – our lips and the back of our mouth.

Anna: queen has the qu sound.

Jane: quick has the qu sound.

Lucas: it sounds like it should be a cw to make the qu sound.

Roma: we learned the y sound.

Rojin: it is a green sound.

Anna: that means it comes from all of your mouth.

Carter: for writing the y sound is goes like a u but with a tail.

Amelia: yet has the y sound.

Anna: yes has the y sound.

Reading

Carter: in our reading book big boys run up to a little boy and push him and his toboggan over. It is called Village in the Snow.

Rojin: In pirate adventure the pirates go and get the children and they put them in a boat and sail to the pirate ship and they have a party. They were nice pirates.

Jane: In house for sale, Dad looked at a house and wanted to buy because he liked.

Mara: They bought the house and they look at the house and in the bedrooms.

Lucas: In our book called Bob, the cat tries to get the meat and he got it and he climbed up on a chair and pulled down the meat and he bit up.

Pati: In Pam and the Cat, Pip gets a cat and the cat sleeps in a cot.

Writing

Carter: I wrote about seeing Mars and that it was red. And I jumped out the rocket.

Logan: I was driving the rocket.

Luke: I was driving the rocket.

Rojin: I walked on the moon.

Roma: I saw sparkly star dust.

Space

Amelia: the sun is not a sun, it is a star.

Anna: the stars make shapes called constellations.

Freya: One of the planets is called Earth and that’s where we live.

Michelle: Earth is the third planet away from the Sun.

Carter: I know Mars, Jupiter, the Earth.

Roma: Mars is red, the mud makes it red.

Luke: the biggest planet is called Jupiter.

Michelle: Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

Carter: Neptune is the planet furthest away from the sun.

Anna: Saturn has a ring around it.

Our Highlights this Week

Olivier: I liked building the home. I used tools and screwdrivers.

Layla: I liked building a castle. I used the bricks.

Cordelle: I liked playing in the house corner. I was cooking macaroni.

Igor: I liked PE and playing basketball.

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