Good choices lead to good times
This is what happens when we make good choices – we get extra playtime in the front playground.
Into the woods….
Yesterday, we went for a walk to the top of Shadwell Lane and found a little woodland area. We spent an hour looking at the different trees, finding different leaves and sketching. We’re so lucky that we can find an area like this so close to school.
Maths and leaves?
As we’d picked lots of different types of leaves on our walk in the woods, we looked at them closely today and were able to do some maths, too. We knew that leaves were important for photosynthesis because they collect the sun’s light. By working out the area of the leaves, we could estimate which leaf would collect the most sunlight (the leaf with the largest area).
Fab phonics
As always, we practise our spellings everyday in phonics lesson. Green group have been working on prefixes and suffixes for a lot of the year so this week we played a game to recap the double-up rule.
Explosive homework
Some super creative homework this week. From news reports to realistic looking volcanoes, Year 3 had the lot!
If you go down to the woods today…
What a great morning. Year 2 took a walk to the woods to have a look at the different types of trees we could find. Isaac turned out to be our nature specialist as he was able to tell us the names of many common trees just by looking at their leaves. Everybody had a great time and all of us were really excited about our topic learning.
Perfect planter
Having worked so hard on planting our seeds and making sure they’ve got the best environment to grow, we’ve now planted them outside in our new Y1/2 planter. Come down past the dining room to see how they’re doing. We’ve got nasturtiums, sunflowers, courgettes, tomatoes, lettuce, peppers and broad beans growing. Hopefully, we’ll have another planter soon to get all of our seedlings outside.
What’s happening this week?
Green Fingers continues and we’re moving our growing outside. New school planters have arrived so this week will see us building and planting in these. We’ll move the seedlings that have been getting on so well in the shared area into the planters to see how they do in the outside world. On Wednesday we’re going to go to the park as our learning moves from flowers to trees. We’ll be exploring the local environment to see what trees we already know the names of and which we can identify using the shape of their leaves.
Maths – Returning to multiplication means times table practice is, as always, extremely helpful for our learning in class. Go counting crazy as you walk up the stairs, travel in the car, walking to school; you could even try the 3 and 4 times tables in preparation for moving into Year 3. As part of multiplication, we’ll also be working with money so if you go to the shop and buy 3 oranges at 50p each, see if we can tell you how much by using our 5 times table knowledge.
English – Entering the world of SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar), we’ll be recapping nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Use Post It notes to label your house’s nouns then go round again and add an adjective to each one. Play verb charades then make it harder by adding an adverbs.
- common noun – a thing (you can precede with ‘a’ or ‘the’) like ‘the table‘ or ‘a dishcloth‘
- adjective – add information to the noun like ‘a square table’ or ‘the wonderful garden’
- verb – an action like ‘to sing‘ or ‘to dance‘
- adverb – describes how, where or when you perform an action like ‘I sang beautifully‘ or ‘I danced on the table’
Reception enjoyed being ‘Little Movers’!
A carousel of learning
Whilst I read with a group (‘guided reading’), there are lots of other learning activities going on in a carousel arrangement across the week. Activities included volcanic top trumps, a pairs memory game, free reading, group reading, Mathletics and great use of the Maths challenge table.
