Week ending 1.5.2015

This week in English we have been reading the story 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea' by Judith Kerr. The children all chose their own animals and learnt how to write a list of their favourite food and drinks! The children will be writing their own version of the story and attempting to use a comma in writing their list of food and drinks. In maths we have revisited halving and quartering. We started the week with a carousel of activities which including making play dough pizzas and halving and quartering a variety of objects. Our topic this week will be all about animals and the different animal groups. On Friday the children will be challenged to create their own zoo! Thank you for all of the donations for our chick fundraiser so far. Please bring in any toys, raffle prizes or sweets as soon as you can so we can start organising our stalls. The fete is Wednesday 20th May between 3pm and 4pm. The past few weeks have our reading numbers have dropped. Please remember to read your child's reading book at least three times a week with them and record it in their yellow reading record. Don't forget this Friday 1st May at 9am we have the Big Book Share. Remind your children that they can bring in their favourite book to share with friends and family.

week ending 24th April 2015

After last week's dragon art we decided to follow the theme into this week's English lessons and have been reading 'Tell Me A Dragon' by Jackie Morris. The children have been working with adjectives and describing the dragons they have seen in the book, before applying these skills to the creation of their own dragon. We have also looked at similes as a way of describing things. They will also be writing a descriptive piece all about their own dragon. In maths we have revisited using a number line as a strategy with addition and subtraction and the importance of counting accurately to help add or subtract any size number. Some of the children have also been looking at jumping in 10s on a number line and 100 square as a way of adding on tens and then the ones. In PE this week we have been continuing with learning the welly beat dance, including creating some of their own moves. Our topic this term is Rupert's Garden, all about the natural world around us. Last week the children planted some sunflower and tomato plant seeds so that they can observe the changes as they grow. They will be recording the planting process as part of this week's topic day. As part of our topic we would also like to hatch some chicks in school for the children to see how this process works. We have been challenged to raise the funds for this as a year group and FOGG have offered to match whatever we raise. The children came up with the idea of a mini fete, which we plan to hold on Wednesday 20th May 3-4pm. The children will be preparing their own notices and invitations for this event and, where possible, will also be manning their own stalls. We would be grateful if you could support their plans by coming along on the day to support the children and also by donating any raffle prizes or unwanted toys for their stalls.

Week ending 17th April

Welcome back - we hope you all had a nice Easter. This week is Art Week and all of the children have been very busy using their art skills to help us contribute to the whole school dragon project for the corridor displays. We hope that you will be impressed by their hard work when the displays are put up over the coming weeks. As well as this, the children have been learning how to identify the number pairs that add up to 20 by working systematically through the pairs (e.g. 0+20=20, 1+19=20, 2+18=20). They have also been completing independent writing all about their Easter holidays. Our dance lessons have started again and this half term the children are completing the welly beat challenge for the Angels charity - more information about this can be found here: http://www.angels-charity.org/campaigns/welly-beat-challenge.