Decorating the Christmas tree
This morning, we had a very important job to do. Mrs Weekes asked us to decorate the Christmas tree in the hall. We worked as a team and used our fine motor skills when hanging the baubles. We can’t wait for you to see it at our Christmas Fair.
World Cup Geography
We’ve had a topical challenge this week relating to the World Cup. Our challenge was to identify the time zones of the different football teams in comparison to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
If you’ve ever been abroad, have friends or family who live abroad; why not identify which time zones they are in.
Living and Learning: Mental Health
Over the last few weeks, we have been learning about mental health in our Living and Learning sessions.
Year 3 know that mental health encompasses our feelings, our thinking, our emotions and our mood.
In our first L&L session, we talked about different feelings and emotions and whether they were positive feelings, negative feelings, or both.
This week, we progressed to talking about how we manage feelings – particularly feelings that we may associate with being negative. The children were great at coming up with strategies for managing difficult feelings. Some of their ideas included mindfulness techniques and taking deep breaths.
Ask your child what techniques they can use to manage a tricky emotion!
Wriggly Nativity
The children are very excited about our upcoming production of ‘Wriggly Nativity’ in the last week of term.
We have found a playlist of all the songs we have been learning in school on Youtube. (link here) We would be really grateful if you could practise the songs at home.
Thank you for your support,
Year 1 and 2 team.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
The Cheeky Elf has arrived!
Yesterday, we noticed a plain Christmas tree in the home corner. When we looked closer, the Elf was swinging on it.
This morning, we noticed tape across our classroom door. After ducking under the tape, we saw the Cheeky Elf holding a roll of tape!
I wonder what he’ll get up to next week…
We’re definitely getting into the Christmas spirit in Reception. Yesterday, we had lots of fun listening to Christmas songs and decorating our Christmas tree.
We’ve also been busy making and writing our Christmas cards. We hope you like them!
Maths
This week, we continued to explore the purpose of counting – to find out ‘how many’ objects there are. We revisited the concept of 1:1 correspondence by making sure that we match collections of objects to the correct representations. We developed our understanding of the concept of cardinality – that the last number in the count tells us ‘how many’ things there are altogether. We also applied this concept when counting more abstract things, such as claps and jumps.
Phonics
We’ve come to the end of phase 2. Next week, we’ll be revisiting and consolidating all of phase 2 graphemes and tricky words. There’ll be no phonics home learning sheet next week. However, it would be great if you continued revisit these graphemes and tricky words at home.
Stamps
Next week, we’ll be your child will be learning all about what happens to our post when reading the story ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’. We sent a letter home about bringing in a stamp. If you would like your child’s postcard to be posted by Royal Mail, please provide a stamp in a named envelope by Thursday 8th December.
PE
Yesterday, the children made safe risks when climbing and travelling on the big apparatus. The gymnastic coaches were very impressed! They showed great determination and perseverance especially when climbing up the ladders.
Poetry picnic
Click here to watch this week’s poem.
Christmas reminders
Monday 05 December – Non-uniform day
To help us get ready for our Christmas fair, please bring a prize to school on Monday.
Thursday 08 December – Christmas dinner day
Friday 09 December – Christmas fair
Tuesday 13 & Wednesday 14 December – Christmas production
Friday 16 December – Christmas party day
Your child can wear non-uniform.
Home-Link Challenge
Who’s theory was correct? Aristotle or Galileo?
In this week’s science learning, we conducted a fair test.
Does the mass of an object affect the rate in which it falls?
Aristotle’s theory suggests that the mass of an object does affect the rate in which it falls and that heavier objects fall quicker!
However, in 1590, Galileo tested this theory by, according to legend, dropping two cannonballs of similar size but different masses off the Leaning Tower of Pisa and seeing when they hit the ground.
This week, we conducted a similar test.
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We tested out Aristotle’s theory by dropping different objects of similar size but different masses and recorded their time of impact with the ground.
We found that mass doesn’t affect the rate in which objects fall. The slight difference in time is due to forces like air resistance.
Great learning, Y6!
Bethan Woollvin Webinar
This morning Year 1 and 2 had a very special online visitor. The author and illustrator Bethan Woollvin spoke to both classes about her work, how she creates her stories and what she likes about being an author and illustrator. We have been reading lots of her stories in class so we were very excited!
She read us the story Little Red and then gave us a tour of her studio including showing us some of her sketchbooks, it was very interesting! Bethan then showed us how to draw Little Red in a draw along session. We concentrated very hard and we were very proud of our drawings!
Finally, we got to ask Bethan some questions and hear her answers. We asked some terrific questions and we were very grateful for Bethan to give her time for such a wonderful webinar! Hopefully, it can inspire some new authors or illustrators in Year 1 and 2!
Skipping ropes
We continue to work with Skipping School as part of the Year 2 and Year 4 skipping festivals.
While you might be thinking about Christmas presents, we have skipping ropes available to purchase from school for a subsidised price of £3. These are available in two sizes and a range of colours.
Daily poem
We continue to read a variety of texts in class and this is our daily poem for this week, The north wind doth blow.
Ask your child to perform this for you – the signs we have learnt can help with this. We’ve had some great performances in class so far.
Class Assembly
It is Year 3’s Class Assembly at 2:40 on Wednesday! We are looking forward to showing you all the learning we have done so far this year.
In preparation for Wednesday, please can you child bring in a shoe box or empty tissue box tomorrow (if possible).
Thank you!