We finished the week with a visit from the Fire Service. They taught us how to keep safe when at home and out and about. We learnt some important rhymes:

Matches, lighter, never touch. They can hurt us very much.

Stop, drop and roll.

Get out, stay out, call 999.

Please ask us when we use these phrases.

In maths, we have been thinking about turns and directions. We have looked at quarter, half and three quater turns, both clockwise and anticlockwise, and which is our left and right. We had fun giving each other directions and did some of our maths outside.

We have enjoyed playing Hit the Button, practising making 10 and 100.

Hit The Button

In PE this term we are using the large equipment. We have to get out the tables, benches and mats safely using the correct procedure. This week we just explored using the equipment, ready for learning more next week.

In writing we have started learning about giraffes. As we will be using non-fiction books, we have been learning the correct words to describe the parts of the book. We learnt about contents pages, paragraphs, captions and many other features. Maybe we could show you them in a book at home.

 

 

We continued our learning about the Great Fire of London this week in our art lessons. We have been looking at different shading techniques and used them to draw a Tudor house. We took a lot of time and care of our work.

 

 

In writing, we have been practising the skills to make our writing more interesting. We have been learning to use adjectives and expended noun phrases. We have also been checking we use the correct punctuation and capital letters in the right places.

At 11 am on Monday, we joined the school to keep the minute's silence. We all stood quietly and respectfully.

In English, we have been looking at the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We retold and sequenced the story by drawing our own story maps. We also thought about the characteristics of the people in the story.

In Maths, we looked at 2d shapes. We have been making them with sticks and finding them in objects around the classroom. We learnt the names of shapes with 3 to 8 sides. Please ask us to tell them to you.

In DT, we have planned the puppet we want to make. We are looking forward to making them next week.

In PE, we practised chest and bounce passes using a large ball. Some of us found this difficult at first, but by the end of the lesson we were all more confident.

This week we have been writing facts about oak trees. We have been thinking about spelling our tricky words correctly as well improving our handwriting.

We had a fantastic time with the footballers. We practised our football skills through games. and we all came back muddy and happy. We were reminded that although it is good to win, it is also important to know how to lose without getting upset or cross.

In maths we have been looking at division through sharing. We drew circles and shared numbers fairly between them. Some of us found using counters made the calculation easier. Please let us show you what we have learnt.

In computing we have been looking at old technology and how it is different from what we use now. The class were amazed at how much a phone has changed, and we used to only use it for phone calls!

 

This week we have been talking about how learning something new can be scary at first, but with practise it gets easier. Mrs Macrae told us that when we make a mistake and we learn from it, it actually makes our brain grow! 

In maths we were learning that adding can be done in any order but subtraction can not. We also found that by spotting our bonds of ten when adding three numbers, made the calculation much easier. We played these games in school and thought you might like to try it at home.

Fruit Splat

Penguin Party Addition

In writing we practised writing our tricky words, making sure we formed our letters correctly at the same time. The lists of words we need to be able to spell are attached at the bottom of this blog.

We had fun doing PE outside with the hoops. We were learning to skip with them and then had a go at hula-hooping. It was amazing to see the progress within just one lesson.

In Geography we looked at weather symbols and then watched a weather forecast to see them being used.

We finished reading our latest class story book Esio Trot by Roald Dahl. We were surprised at the ending.