Tiggers have been very busy during the last few weeks and we are nearly at the end of our first half term.

In Maths, we have been comparing weight and capacity. The children have been busy exploring the water and the balancing scales, looking to see what is the same, more and less. We have been exploring pattern in sound and actions and talking about repeating patterns with colours, shapes, pegs and natural objects. We have continued to look at the season of Autumn and change. We learnt the story of the Gruffalo. We attempted to order the pictures telling the story. We looked at what happens to apples as they decay. We have talked about our bodies and what our senses do. We looked at some interesting facts about other animal’s eyes, ears and mouths. We have been continuing with our phonics and now know m, a, s, d, t, i and n. We are continuing to blend them together to read words and use the sounds in our writing.  We have learnt how a letter to someone travels and have had our own Post Office inside the classroom. We took our first trip out of school, we visited the post box to post our letters to our parents. We had our very own “Squash” fairy tuff spot and we used the fairies to make up stories and play alongside our friends. The fairies visited us in the week leaving fairy dust and a magic fairy door. We wrote messages to them. We continue to use our fine motor skills and have learnt how to use the tools safely and that we have to wear goggles to protect our eyes . We hammered nails and screwed screws into a giant pumpkin.  I can see some budding builders who are very skilled at handling a screwdriver. We did some cooking making a delicious apple crumble, helping Mrs Christopher to read the instructions. In RE, we have learnt about Creation and that God has given us our gifts. We have talked about ways that we are similar to each other and also different. We have started to talk about people who care for us and the ways in which they care.

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During the past couple of weeks Fir Class have continued to work hard on their letter formation and sentence writing. The children are trying to write sentences from sections of The Gingerbread Man. Phonics lessons and reading continue to be an important part of every day. In RE we’ve completed work on Creation and also written prayers about Harvest. The children are beginning to learn The Hail Mary linking it to The Rosary.

In Maths, the children have worked hard completing the work in understanding number and are now learning about partitioning numbers using part whole models. In Art, the children have also made clay models of animals and done lots of colouring which helps their fine motor skills. It has been another busy couple of weeks in Fir Class.

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In Fig Class, the children have been working very hard on the way in which their work is presented across all subject areas. We are very pleased with the handwriting which is becoming neater, smaller and joined. We are also pleased with the way the children are presenting their Maths especially when using bar-models and whole/part whole diagrams to explain their thinking.  In Computing, the children understand how to make a folder and how to save their work to this folder, how to change the orientation of a document in word, insert a table and use cut and paste to insert an image from the internet. They have been using these skills to create a fact card about their dragon. In Maths, we have continued finding out how to split numbers(partitioning) and are now using this knowledge when working with addition calculations. We are learning about number families e.g. 17+5=22, 5+17=22, 22-5=17, 22-17=5. In RE we have been learning more about The Rosary and the prayers that are said. We have prayed a decade of the rosary during our class assemblies. It is lovely to see the children so excited and engaged in their learning.

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