Blog Author: Mrs Boyle

We used compasses to direct our partners around the playground. We directed them using the language north, south, east and west. We enjoyed making up silly rhymes to remember the compass points. Naughty, Silly, Earth, Worm was one of our favourites and Naughty, Elephants, Squirt, Water.

As part of our topic of animals, we have been looking closely at different types of animals, their groups and their features. Therefore, we were very excited to look after some fish for a few weeks. We are enjoying feeding them and discussing the different parts we can see e.g “...look at their…

We have enjoyed finding out and sorting what different animals eat. We have used the vocabulary herbivore, carnivore and omnivore. We have also thought about what we eat! 

We enjoyed listening to the stories that the Year 4’s read to us. We also enjoyed trying to guess the ‘Masked Readers’ from Y4 and Y1 ! They were very well disguised ! 

We really enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day and all the fun activities we we did. We listened to the famous illustrator Axel Scheffler (Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Zog) who showed us how he illustrated some characters and read us some of his favourite books. 
We also enjoyed the World Book…

We have been looking and naming the different animals and learning the animal groups ( mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish). We have been looking closely at the different animals to sort them into different groups. We have spotted similarities and differences between the animals and…

We made 2 digit numbers using a range of resources and compared them using greater than and less than. 

To start our new topic, we went to discover the animals we found in our school garden. We found out that the smaller animals (insects) like damp, dark places like under the logs and rocks. We found some woodlice, a ladybird, a snail and a slug! 

We have enjoyed learning different characters within our dance this half term. Today, we performed our dances to different classes. Brilliant ! 

We used lots of resources to show how we can make 2 digit numbers by partitioning into tens and ones. We used straws, ten frames, numicon, number lines and bead bars. We enjoyed exploring different ways. 

Mrs Hammond came in to tell us how she helps people everyday. She showed us her uniform, some of her equipment that she uses daily and also let us try it out too! 
We enjoyed listening and finding out lots of interesting things. Thank you, Mrs Hammond! 

Today we had another visit into school. Mr Hammond told us about how he helped people whilst working at the Power Station. He told us some important jobs he did, his safety uniform and told us some of the dangers he faced in his job. We enjoyed finding out about his job and we also enjoyed wearing…