Friday 16th 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 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.

In RE this week we listened to Laudato Si the letter Pope Francis wrote to every person on the planet asking us to protect the earth, our common home.

We wrote letters to Pope Leo explaining how we were going to do this.

 

Friday 9th October

In English this week we have looked carefully at signs of Autumn, describing the colours and textures of the leaves and seeds. We collected descriptive words and then used them to write our own Autumn poems.

We remembered to

• say our sentences out loud
• use a capital letter and a full stop
• segment our spellings

 

We have continued to investigate part part whole models in Maths this week and using them to split wholes into different parts.

We have said the stem sentences

My whole is 7

One part is 2.

One part is 5.

Altogether I have 7.

We have used our models to help us solve problems.

E.G. Tom has 2 marbles in one hand and 5 marbles in the other. How many marbles does he have altogether?

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 2nd October

This week in English we enjoyed performing our favourite poems from Out and About by Shirley Hughes. 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.

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 25th 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.

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

This week in R.E. we learnt the opening lines of the Nicene Creed.

We made binoculars and went on an awe and wonder walk looking for all the amazing things that God created as a gift to us.

Friday 18th September

English

This week in English we have continued to read poems from the anthology Out and About. We read a poem called Mudlarks. We explored all the words we can use to describe mud and then wrote our own mud poems.

We remembered to:

• say our sentences out loud
• use a capital letter
• use a full stop
• segment our spellings.

Maths

In Maths this week we have started a new topic about comparisons.

We have started by comparing height, length and weight.

We compared objects and repeated the stem sentences:

The pencil is shorter than the book.

The ball is lighter than the stone.

We used the vocabulary

• shorter than /longer than
• taller than /shorter than
• heavier than /lighter than

R.E.

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

Friday 11th September

This week in English we read the poem Out and About by Shirley Hughes. We thought about the describing words that the poet 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.

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.

This week we celebrated our return to school with Mass at St Helen's Junior School.

We also talked about how much Jesus loves us and wrote a whole class prayer for the prayer tree at the entrance to our school.