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This week in school we were celebrating reading.  Today we paired up with Year 6 to share lots of different types of books.  The Year 6 children did a fantastic job reading to us. Thanks Y6!!

Today, we made Oobleck using cornflour and water. It was really messy but so much fun! Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid which is a another meaning for fluids that change viscosity (how easy they flow). When we ran our fingers slowly through the mixture it acted like a liquid, but when we applied…

We have had fun today reading and sharing different poems with children in Year 1. 

We have been investigating whether a gas weighs anything. First we weighed different bottles of fizzy drinks.Then we shook them to make them go flat and release the gas in them called carbon dioxide. Our arms certainly ached doing this! We weighed them again to see if they were lighter and they…

Today we met with our Reception buddies to read, sing, sign and act out Nursery Rhymes to celebrate National Poetry Day. We had a lot of fun even though the weather was miserable.

We explored the sense of hearing by going on a listening walk. We heard lots of different noises in our local area. Our favourite was the bird singing! 

We explored the sense of hearing by going on a listening walk. We heard lots of different noises in our local area. Our favourite was the bird singing! 

We have been thinking more about the numbers to 100.  Today we practised making different numbers using the Base 10 equipment.  Mrs Cross then asked us to add or take away different amounts of tens or ones.

Look at our fabulous self portraits.  Can you tell who is who?

We started using the greater than, less than and equals signs < = > to compare numbers. 

We chose numbers and compared the amounts using the vocabulary, “greater than, less than and equal to”.