Monday 15th November 2021
Today we started to make our moving Christmas cards. We used our designs from last lesson to think about what is going to be the moving part. We started on the wheel mechanisms today. I won’t show too many photos so they are a nice surprise when they come home at the end of term!
Wednesday 10th November 2021
Today we watched a video about weaving and discussed where we have seen weaving before. We then practised weaving on wire racks using ribbons and pipe cleaners.
Tuesday 9th November 2021
Today we looked at number bonds to 10. We used numicon to find all the different ways to make 10. We then made the number bonds to ten pictorially and abstractly.
Monday 8th November 2021
Today we had a special visit from Estelle Baker from the Heritage Education. She brought lots of old toys in to show us. Some toys were over 150 years old! We were not allowed to play with the really old toys – but she brought lots of replicas and copies that we were allowed to play with
We looked at what the old toys were made out of – metal, wood, saw dust and cardboard. We also discovered that none of the old toys were electric or needed batteries. We had to make them move. We had to pull, push, squeeze, and spin the different toys.
We had great fun playing with all the different old toys and learning about how they work.
Thursday 4th November 2021
In Geography this week we have been identifying the types of clothing worn in different weather and different Seasons. We then went on a walk around our outside area to find clues to see if we could decide which Season it is.
We were looking to see if we could find places where rain water collects; somewhere that doesn’t get wet; something that is moved by the wind and places to shelter from the rain. It was interesting to look at our outside area closely. We discovered that the water butt had been blown over and a bench had moved in the wind.
Monday 1st November 2021
Today in English we looked at what makes a sentence. We found out that it is a group of words but they have to make sense. We started to look at how sentences need a capital letter to start with and a full stop at the end.
We used the word cards to build sentences about the three little pigs. We then copied these sentences into our books.
Tuesday 12th October 2021
We are having great fun with our Funky Fingers challenge this week. We have got pumpkins and have been using hammers to hammer in the golf tees. We have been working hard to either make patterns or faces in the pumpkins. We have been having great fun!
Monday 11th October 2021
We used mirrors to draw self portraits. We were focusing on drawing the correct shapes and then adding the features and details. I was very impressed with everyone’s drawings. They all took their time and tried really hard.
Wednesday 6th October 2021
Today we acted out the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’ again. We discussed how important it was for the story to be in the correct order. We then drew our own story maps to show the main events of the story, in the correct order.
Following on from last week when we were comparing groups, today we started to look at the more than, less than and equals symbols. We compared objects and used the correct sign.
Aquila Class