Fantasy Book week

In English this week we have been reading the story Billy's Bucket. The reason why we have been using this story is because we have been learning about fantasy stories. We designed and make our own fantasy settings.
In Maths we have been learning to double a number and find half of a number.
Double 4 is 8
Double 6 is 12


Half of 4 is 2


In Topic we have been learning about our artist William Morris. He made furniture and wallpaper. We recorded facts about him in our own way.

Colour mixing week

This week in English we have been learning about characters in stories. The character we have been looking at is Goldilocks and we wrote a character description. This means we wrote about her personality, her appearance, her likes and dislike and our opinion.


In Art this week we learnt how to mix colours. Blue, red and yellow are primary colours and they make secondary colours.


In PSHE we have been thinking about what makes a good friend. We created posters to show this.


In Maths we have been adding numbers and finding different ways.

Kaleidoscope making week

This week we were practicing our English skill of writing a story. We wrote the story 'My House is Your House'. We wrote the story starting at the beginning and when a character spoke we tried to use speech marks.


In Science we have been making Kaleidoscopes. We had to look in the kaleidoscopes that we made and had to draw the pattern on to a piece of paper. You have to spin the kaleidoscope to make different patterns. You need to shine it at the light because then you can see the patterns better.


Throughout the week we have been practicing writing our capital letters so that we can improve our sentences. Please remember these when you are writing at home!

Instructions

We have had a very busy week.......


In English we have been learning to say and write instructions. You have to use bossy words when you write an instruction such as spread, get, cut, put. We know the technical for bossy words is imperative verbs.
In Maths we have learnt about a couple of things. We have explored money, 2D shapes and 3D shapes.
We decorated the school Christmas tree today and we started to learn about the Christmas story. Rev Tim also visited the whole school to tell us about the story too. We have also had a special assembly about water.


On Monday we are going to Windsor Castle, we will let you know how it was next week.

Time Week

This week in Maths we have been learning about time. We now know how to tell the time, when the minute hands points to the 6 it means half past.


We have been writing sentences to make a fact book. The book is about castles.




In RE this week, we learnt about light and what it means.


REMINDERS
Tomorrow is the Christmas Bazaar, and our Christmas tree decorations will be on sale.

Sharing Assembly Week

This week we have been learning about Castles. Some castles have moats and the King and Queen live in the Keep. Castles are build on hill so that they can see their enemies. Castles keep people safe.


Throughout the week we have been working hard to make our decoration for the Christmas Bazaar. We hope that you will like them because we do!


Today we did our sharing assembly. We thought we did really well. Did you like it? We spent time practicing our lines to that we could remember them.


Just to let you know, the library is now open on a Thursday and Friday before school. It would be lovely to see some of you there.

Fantastic Fireworks!

We've had lots of fun with our learning this week.


In maths, we have been saying how many tens and ones are in a number.
18 has got 1 ten and 8 1s - Leo


In PSHE, we have been thinking about who is special to us. Rio enjoyed writing about his family.


This week, it has been Nursery Rhyme Week. Max brought in a book full of Nursery Rhymes and we have enjoyed reading them.


We have also been creating poems about fireworks. We wrote our poem, and then edited it by writing it in the shape of a firework. This is called a calligram.


In Phonics, we have been trying hard to write our words properly. Jake says it has helped him to look at the yellow part to find out what he needs to change.


This morning, we watched Maple's Sharing Assembly. Ethan thought it was interesting, he enjoyed the singing. Bella thought the girls' fireworks dance was epic. Well done, Maple Class.


This week, we have been thinking about our friendships. The Star Award is for someone who has been good at helping their friends at lunchtime. Well done to Harry!


Barney is going home with Sam for showing a really good attitude to his learning this week. Have a great weekend with Barney, Sam!