Friday 24th October

This week in English we have thought about which poem we liked the best out of all the poems that we have read and learnt this term from Out and About by Shirley Hughes.

We listened to A little bit of food by Joseph Coelho and wrote our own version about fruit.

In Maths this week we have matched numbers to words and to sets. We have tried to subitise when saying how many is in a set rather than counting every object and have also verbalised our thinking too.

There are 7 cubes. I can see 5 and 2 and that makes 7.

There are 8 apples. I can see 4 and 4.

There are 8 apples. I can see 2,4,6,8.

In R.E. this week we have started our new topic, Prophecy and Promise. We named the 4 gospels in the New Testament and read the story of The Annunciation from Luke’s gospel. We reflected on what Mary said to Angel Gabriel when he appeared to her.

Friday 17th October

This week in Science we have been looking at the season of Autumn. In English we have thought about all that we have learnt and used our ideas to write Autumn poems.

We remembered to; Say our sentences out loud

Include a capital letter and a full stop

Segment when spelling.

In Maths we have been looking at the vocabulary associated with time;

Before, after, next, days of the week and months of the year.

We have made sure we know the days of the week in order and answered problems about them.

What is the day before Friday?

How many days are there in the weekend etc.

Linked to our Science topic about seasonal change we have also looked at the months of the year, ordered them correctly and created a bar chart representing our birthdays.

We have continued to count forwards and backwards within 100.

In RE this week we reflected on how we can be stewards of God’s creation. We made placards to help spread this message and held a ‘small world’ peaceful protest.

Friday 3rd October

This week in English we enjoyed performing poems to an audience (our next door class) that we invited with invitations last week. We read a poem about fire and collected ideas about how fire looks, sounds and smells. We then wrote our own fire poems.

In Maths we have been working on recognising whole objects and objects that are not whole. We then looked at groups of objects that were whole  and groups of objects where something was missing so was only a part. We then started to split a group of cubes into different parts.

Our maths vocabulary this week is

whole     not whole        missing        part  

We have continued to count forwards and backwards within 100.

In R.E. this week we have understood how praying draws us nearer to God. We learnt the Our Father and added our own actions and then wrote our own prayers of praise, thanks, forgiveness and asking for help.

Our Father who art in Heaven,

Hallowed be thy name,

Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done,

On Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread

And forgive us our trespasses,

As we forgive those who trespass against us

And lead us not into temptation,

But deliver us from evil.

Amen.

Friday 26th September

English

This week in English we have continued to read poems from the anthology Out and About. We explored the rhythm of the poem Spring Greens and worked as a class to learn and perform it with expression and volume. We wrote a simple invitation to ask the class next door to come to our performance.

Maths

In Maths this week we have been comparing groups of objects using the language fewer than and more than.

The boy has more balloons than the girl.

                                                                     The girl has fewer balloons than the boy.

We have introduced the children to the inequality signs

greater than   > and less than <

We have used these signs to compare numbers

3>2

2<3

We have also used equal to = when comparing groups.

 3=3

 

RE

We have understood that Catholics believe that God shows his love for us through creation. We wrote sentences about how we can see and feel God’s love and created collages of our favourite creations.

 

And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:20-25

Friday 19th September

English

In English this week we read Wind by Shirley Hughes. 

We thought about all the different words we could think of to describe wind, created wind dances in response to the sound of wind and then wrote our own wind poems. We remembered to say our sentences out loud and segment our spellings.

Maths

In Maths this week we have been comparing objects using the language

shorter than, taller than, longer than, heavier than, lighter than and equal to. We have continued to count forwards and backwards within 100. 

RE

We listened to the Nicene Creed and learnt the first 4 lines. We understand that this is a prayer that Catholics say together to remind them of the amazing world that God created as a gift for us. 

Friday 12th September

English

This week in English we have read the poem Out and About by Shirley Hughes. We thought about the describing words that the poet has used. We talked about the things we do when we are out and about in different seasons and wrote sentences about what we like to do best.

Maths

In Maths this week we have been counting both forwards and backwards within 100. We read Spinderella by Julia Donaldson and counted legs of flies and spiders. We also solved problems such as:

If there were 2 spiders, how many legs would there be?

We drew pictures so that we could count all the legs to help us to solve this problem.

RE

We have started our new topic, Creation and Covenant. We read the story of the Creation in The Book of Genesis. We created a whole class display that included all the things that God created. We looked at art work depicting God’s creation and said how it made us feel closer to God.

In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1