Blog Author: Mrs Boyle

We have been exploring how we can make numbers to 20 by looking at the tens and ones in a number. 

Coach Steve is coming in this half term to help teach us the fundamentals in cricket. Not only are we working on throwing, hitting and catching, but also to be a good sport and show the ‘ spirit of cricket’. 

We enjoyed taking part in Inter-Sports today, where we concentrated on underarm throwing for accuracy and over arm throwing for distance. We worked as a team to get as many points. Well done Red Team! 

We enjoyed our buddies coming to share a book with us today. We chose a book that we enjoy and they read it to us. 

We have been discussing the features of different houses and we have been designing our own dolls house. We have looked at houses from the past and the present, comparing features on older houses and more modern houses. Then we designed our own dolls house and started making them using materials…

We have been looking at everyday materials and sorting them in different ways. We discussed their material name and their properties. 

We have been looking at everyday materials and sorting them in different ways. We discussed their material name and their properties. 

We have been looking at everyday materials and sorting them in different ways. We discussed their material name and their properties. 

Coach Louise is teaching us dance this half term and we are looking at different styles of dance. We were looking at salsa style of dance this week. 

We enjoyed following a recipe to make a strawberry and banana smoothie for Mrs Aylott. We followed the instructions carefully spotting the features of all the instructions. The following day we designed and wrote our own smoothie recipes using all the features we had seen.

During our topic, we also looked at keeping our bodies clean and discussed the importance of brushing our teeth. We watched a video and got a new toothbrush and toothpaste to take home. 

We then sequenced instructions on the best way to brush our teeth. 

During our topic of ‘Ourselves’, we had discussed the importance of washing your hands thoroughly and why. We read instructions on how to wash your hands and they are in the toilets to remind us.