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Streetdance, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 9:31pm

On Monday we had a go at learning some streetdance moves.  Not many photos as I was trying to learn the moves myself.  Letters have gone home about the Monday night club.

Science, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 9:27pm

On Monday we explored a variety of resources to discover how we see.  We learnt that in order to see we need a light source. That light travels in straight lines and is reflected off surfaces into our eyes.  We turned the lights on and off and watched the size of our pupils change, they got bigger in the dark and smaller in the light.  We investigated light using different equipment. 

The Week ahead, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 9:19pm

Spelling- contractions, words with the prefixes un- and dis-

Grammar - using speech marks.

English - writing a conversation using direct speech.

Maths - addition and subtraction of 2 and 3 digit numbers

Science - light - how do we see? Reflection. 

Jigsaw - farmyard acting game and treasure keeper.  Discussion regarding rules and consequences.

P.E. - swimming and cricket.

R.E. - qualities of a leader. 

Jigsaw - feeling proud, by Miss Adamson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 6:30pm

We learned about feeling proud on Monday. Here we are speaking to our partners.

Street dance taster, by Miss Adamson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 6:28pm

Adele kindly gave us a taster of street dance after school club!

Senses Hunt, by Miss Adamson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 6:26pm

We used our senses to go for a hunt.

Random dice 🎲 website, by Mr Pearson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 4:54pm

To play our favourite maths game at home you can use this website 

https://www.random.org/dice/?num=3

to provide you with random dice throws

 

Terrific Tuesday , by Mr Pearson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 4:52pm

This week in Science we have been learning about electricity. We had a go at writing a script for a presenter of a TV show to explain how it is generated. We have also looked at the dangers of electricity at home.

In maths we have been doing standard written method of addition.  Today we have done letters that stood for numbers and then we added the numbers and tried to get the biggest number possible.

Also we did a mathematical bingo game we picked six numbers between 20 -40 then rolled three dice and we did lots of different methods to work out the answers in our books the person who crossed all there numbers of first is the winner.

In English Have been writing  descriptions of characters from James and the Giant Peach using adjectives.

wopps in the morning, learning how to play the flute.

Beyond sport: boxing week 1 , by Miss Leigh

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 10:05am

Have a look at our morning!  

Dance taster, by Mr Pearson

Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 8:37pm

The giraffes had fun this morning during a dancing taster. 

The week ahead, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 7:03pm

This week we are looking at the colour red. We will be reading the story of little red riding hood, thinking about the characters and setting of the story.

We are starting phonics and will learn a new sound each day the sounds this week are s, a, t, p. We should then be able to make simple words for eg. Sat, tap, pat. Yeah the start of reading.

We will be sending home the phonics packs so please encourage your child to tell you what each sound/phoneme is and then have a go at writing that letter.

In maths we are counting to 20, adding granny's cakes and having a little look at shapes.

We will be baking in Friday just like the cakes that red riding hood took to granny.

Fun, fun and more fun!

The week ahead, by Miss Leigh

Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 6:54pm

Hope you've all had a relaxing weekend and the Arithmetic homework wasn't too bad.  Don't worry if you struggled.  There are questions on there that we've not covered yet, but you might have had a go at them or you might want to see if you can have a go at them on next weeks homework. 

English:  We will be looking at instructions as we work though the next 4 chapters of Swiss Family Robinson. 

GPS- ible/able/ibly/ably words, rules for short vowel sounds, and there, they're and their

Maths - Rounding Millions and Decimals in context, Long division reasoning. 

PE:  Streetdance and Beyond sport 

Science: Adaption of specific types of animals

Art: Cauliflower cards

Geography: Continents, countries and cities with a focus on America 

 

Trip letters for Robin Wood will go out later this week (wednesday) acompanied by a parent mail. 

Fronted adverbial , by Mr Pearson

Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 10:00am

In GPS this morning we have been looking at fronted adverbials.

 

Week Beginning Monday 18th September 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 17th Sep 2017 @ 5:43pm

Hello all :) 

I hope that you have had a lovely weekend. This is what we are doing this week:

English

We are reading the story of Supertato. In our writing I would like us to really focus on always beginning sentences with capital letters.

Maths

We are learning about place value and counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We will begin to understand tens and ones for numbers beyond ten and twenty. We will work on counting in 5s and counting in 10s and 2s from any given number.

Phonics

We are working in two groups this week (Mrs Thomson or Miss Adamson). We are reviewing a few sounds from last year and applying them to our reading and writing.

Jigsaw

We are learning about what it means to be proud.

Art

We are learning about Andy Warhol and creating our own superhero popart.

PE

We are working on running and underarm throws.

I look forward to seeing you all in the morning!

Miss Adamson

Week beginning 18th September, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 17th Sep 2017 @ 3:01pm

This week the Penguins will be busy finding out about:

English - Katie Morag and the two Grandmothers, nouns, conjunctions

               Learning an Autumn poem and handwiting practise

               Spelling - homophones, ew, ue, ow, ou, air, ear,are

Maths - place value - sequences - counting in 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's, partitioning numbers, rounding numbers, finding 1and 10 more or less

Geography - looking at where we play, visit the park, how can we improve it? Introduce terms Physical and Human explain and relate to places where they play. Look at Google maps and find local faetures, use an OS map to find Longon and other relevant places

Art - sketching skills, practise sketching with different media, vsit park to sketch the play equipment

PSHE - jigsaw - looking at consequences for making wrong choices

RE - what is Hinduism?

Computers - using Scratch to programme "speedy"

PE - games - throwing and catching games, gymnastics - travelling and balancing

Dont forget to check out the blog on Wednesday and Friday, the Penguin library opened on Friday come along again on Friday  to choose another book or to choose your first book! 

Week beginning the 18th September, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 16th Sep 2017 @ 5:56pm

This week will look like this:

English: Work around Beowulf and Grendel - focus on adverbs for intensity and cohesion.

Maths: Number and Place value - including: recognising, ordering and counting in steps of decimals up to thousandths; solving problems involving number upto 3 decimal places; and finding powers of 10 more or less than a given number.

Geography: UK Weather - Where does it come from?

History: Anglo-Saxons - Where did they go? Where did they settle?

PSHE: Jigsaw - 

RE: Buddhism

French: Greetings

PE: Gymanstics and Quick Cricket

 

If you have any artefacts/special skills/holiday pics etc. that would help us with our learning - please feel free to volunteer them! We would love to have some visitors to our class this year and learning always works best when it is contextualised!

Friday treat, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 15th Sep 2017 @ 4:13pm

Everyone in the elephant class got their minion up to gold so they all had a little treat on Friday afternoon. Mini ice lollies were enjoyed by all πŸ‘

The end of a busy week!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 15th Sep 2017 @ 3:52pm

The Penguins enjoyed a music session with Mrs Bolton yesterday.

In our Jigsaw work we have been sorting photos into good behaviour and not and deiscussing consequences.

Have a great weekendπŸ˜€

This weeks prize box winners , by Mr Pearson

Date: 15th Sep 2017 @ 12:19pm

This weeks prize winners are

Juliette  

Saskia

Jasmine

well done 

Roald Dahl day, by Mr Pearson

Date: 14th Sep 2017 @ 12:47pm

On Roald Dahl day we read part of James and the giant peach .

We also completed our cauliflower cards!  All ready for Christmas πŸŽ„ 

Enjoying reception class, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 13th Sep 2017 @ 5:51pm

Today we have been enjoying the autumn sunshine, making cauliflower cards using the interactive whiteboard and loads more x we even went into singing assembly to learn the harvest songs.

Penguin fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 13th Sep 2017 @ 3:34pm

Penguins have had fun so far this week, doing gymnastics, chips and peas (otherwise known as tens and ones) and footprints for our Christmas cards (cauliflower cards)smiley

Christmas cards in September!!!, by Mr Pearson

Date: 13th Sep 2017 @ 1:51pm

The giraffes have today been completing their Christmas cards, ready to send to the printers for time for Christmas.

An enjoyable afternoon, I hope lists for presents are not appearing too soon. πŸ˜€

Happy birthday to Baliee

Extra information, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 5:04pm

Thank you to those parents who were able to make  meet the teacher, the information is now on the class page for yo to read at your leaisure!

After a discussion with parents at the metting we are going to start a "Penguin Library" on a Friday afternoon after school. Your children will be able to borrow books to read and share at home and return them the following week.

It will start this weeksmiley