English

Our focus text this week is The Three Little Pigs. Today we explored the materials the pigs used to build their houses and used vocabulary to describe them. We thought the straw was yellow, bendy and light. The sticks were bumpy, long and strong. The bricks were solid, rough and hard.

We then continued to retell the story and draw our own story map before finally writing our own stories.

Today we were predicting what out new text could be. We found clues in the bag that related to our new story. We predicted correctly that our new text is The Little Red Hen. 

Have a look at our fantastic retellings of The Little Red Hen. We have been learning to use capital letters and full stops. 

Aliens Love Underpants! We have really enjoyed reading our new text. Today we explored character's feelings and developed our vocabulary to describe this. We made freeze frames to show how the characters were feeling. 

Poetry week! This week is poetry week. We are going to be writing an autumn poem. Today we went on a walk around school looking for signs of autumn. We added lots of vocabulary to our learning wall.

Maths 

We have started our Maths learning with lots of counting and practising our number formation.

We have been learning to recognise numbers written in words. We matched the numeral and name up.

This week we have been looking at one more and one less. The children have been using cubes and counters to help them.

We have been learning to count backwards! We challenged our partners to start from a given number and continue counting backwards. The numbers were getting one less each time. 

We have been ordering numbers. We having been ordering numbers smallest to greatest and greatest to smallest. We have been fantastic at using this vocabulary.

Science

How can I identify a variety of materials based on their properties? 

Which materials can be recycled?

The children have begun to look at different materials and the properties these are made from. This will then help then identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for different uses. 

Art

What is form?

The children have begun their sculpture work by exploring the oval shapes and sketching them. We practiced and rehearsed this before painting them.

We are in the process of making our balloon dog sculptures. Look how amazing they are so far!

PSHE

Are all families the same?

This week we have begun to look at the people who care for us and how they help us. We talked about who is in our family and then drew pictures of them.

Computing

Why do we need rules?

History

How have toys changed over time?

Today we were learning that toys were different in the past. We played and explored toys from the past. We enjoyed playing with the spinning top and the wooden soldiers. Some of the toys were similar to what we have now but looked different.

Today, we continued learning about toys from the past. We learned how to identify if the toy was from the past or present.

Music

Does pitch and tempo matter?

In each lesson we have been enjoying listening to a different pieces of music and discussing the tempo. 

We used instruments to pass the beat around the circle trying to keep the same tempo. 

RE

What do Christians believe God is?

We have been learning about 'The Big Frieze' and how it represents the bible timeline.

We have been learning about the bible story of Joseph and his brothers. We listened to the story and reflected of Joseph's actions and beliefs. As a class we then ordered the parts of the story. 

Today we listened to the story of Daniel and the Lions Den. We enjoyed learning the story and discussed how Daniel was courageous for following his beliefs and faith. We drew a picture to show Daniel praying to God and the trust to showed.