This week we started off using instructions verbally and following them using our bodies. We then moved to listening to them in music and doing a dance. This helped us to understand which way our Bee-Bots needed to move. From this it was so much fun being able to...
A question that was posed from one child to another when in the sand area was pouring sand down the cluttering in his play saying “I am adding cinnamon”. We were focusing on 10 in maths so we chose the price of 10p per slice of our homemade apple and cinnamon crumble...
Following on from reading the story of ‘Superworm’ in choosing time the children made wands just like the evil lizard. We used our skills of measure and mathematical vocabulary to compare the wands to the size of the worms.
In Maths, we made our own clocks help us to tell the time to the nearest five minutes. We have used lots of key vocabulary in our lessons such as minute hand, hour hand, clockwise, minutes past and minutes to.
One of our nursery children was lucky enough to see a real rocket launch and shared it with us all on our online learning journal Tapestry. This inspired us to play all things rockets🚀 We listened to different stories including Roaring Rockets, Whatever Next...
We looked at how many tens and ones in different numbers using part, part whole models to represent them. We used the terminology ‘partition’ to show how we found the tens and ones.
We worked hard to decide what times of the day different events happened, from the morning, afternoon and evening. We thought carefully about our life and used that to help us give reasons as to why we had placed events in each category.
Year 4 really enjoyed 'no pen day!' In English, we had a spelling race then we described scenes from our class text. Each group stood at the front and described the scene using expanded noun phrases, fronted adverbials and the 5 senses. The rest of the class then held...
Today we sang the Wheels on the bus and chose different things and actions to go on the bus. We played with some jigsaws and added different people onto the bus. We have talked about when we have been on a journey on a bus or boat during group time. We looked through...
We undertook a shape hunt around school this week to see if we could identify any 2D or 3D shapes. We have also been learning about the properties of shapes and enjoyed creating our own with a parter, developing our problem solving skills.
