In writing, we have been practising the skills to make our writing more interesting. We have been learning to use adjectives and expended noun phrases. We have also been checking we use the correct punctuation and capital letters in the right places.

At 11 am on Monday, we joined the school to keep the minute's silence. We all stood quietly and respectfully.

In English, we have been looking at the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We retold and sequenced the story by drawing our own story maps. We also thought about the characteristics of the people in the story.

In Maths, we looked at 2d shapes. We have been making them with sticks and finding them in objects around the classroom. We learnt the names of shapes with 3 to 8 sides. Please ask us to tell them to you.

In DT, we have planned the puppet we want to make. We are looking forward to making them next week.

In PE, we practised chest and bounce passes using a large ball. Some of us found this difficult at first, but by the end of the lesson we were all more confident.

This week we have been writing facts about oak trees. We have been thinking about spelling our tricky words correctly as well improving our handwriting.

We had a fantastic time with the footballers. We practised our football skills through games. and we all came back muddy and happy. We were reminded that although it is good to win, it is also important to know how to lose without getting upset or cross.

In maths we have been looking at division through sharing. We drew circles and shared numbers fairly between them. Some of us found using counters made the calculation easier. Please let us show you what we have learnt.

In computing we have been looking at old technology and how it is different from what we use now. The class were amazed at how much a phone has changed, and we used to only use it for phone calls!

 

This week we have been talking about how learning something new can be scary at first, but with practise it gets easier. Mrs Macrae told us that when we make a mistake and we learn from it, it actually makes our brain grow! 

In maths we were learning that adding can be done in any order but subtraction can not. We also found that by spotting our bonds of ten when adding three numbers, made the calculation much easier. We played these games in school and thought you might like to try it at home.

Fruit Splat

Penguin Party Addition

In writing we practised writing our tricky words, making sure we formed our letters correctly at the same time. The lists of words we need to be able to spell are attached at the bottom of this blog.

We had fun doing PE outside with the hoops. We were learning to skip with them and then had a go at hula-hooping. It was amazing to see the progress within just one lesson.

In Geography we looked at weather symbols and then watched a weather forecast to see them being used.

We finished reading our latest class story book Esio Trot by Roald Dahl. We were surprised at the ending.

 

 

This week we finished our work with The Suitcase. We rewrote the story showing our phonics skills, and trying to make sure our writing stayed on the line. We also have been checking that our letters are formed correctly.

In Maths we finished our work on place value. We practised spelling the number names and finished the week with word problems and spotting the mistakes made.

We enjoyed playing the following game. You could try it at home.

Alien Addition

In Geography, we learnt the names of the four countries that make up Britain and their capital cities. We then found out the names of the seas and ocean that surround us.

We finished the week with some free choice time as we had completed all our work. We chose to work together to build an extremely long model, that went round the classroom, out the door, round the tree and back to the classroom! 

What an amazing first week. Everyone settled back into the school routine quickly, getting to know their new classmates.

In English we  our learning for the next couple of weeks through the book The Suitcase. If you would like to listen to it at home use the following link;

The Suitcase

We thought about what we would pack if we were going on a trip. We came up with a range of ideas depending on what was important to us. We also thought about what some of our favourite cartoon characters would pack in their suitcases.

In Art we have been revising how we make secondary colours from primary colours and the emotions that are created when we see different colours.

In maths we have been looking at place value and how we make numbers with dienes. We enjoyed practising this by playing some games and the links are below if you want to try at home.

Basketball

Shark

We also enjoyed prating our bonds of ten using Hit the Button

Hit The Button

All the adults who have worked in our class have been amazed at how well we both do our work and play together during wet play.

We are all looking forward to a happy and exciting year in Hazel Class.