Class 1 Blog

 Hello,  I hope you have all had a good week. We have had a warm and busy week in Class 1 :) This week we have been exploring the story 'Zog' The children have enjoyed writing about the story, drawing dragons, making castles for the Princess and lots more. We are super excited for our trip to the theatre next Friday! We have seen some amazing independent writing this week. I love how all the children now want to write and are so proud to show it to the adults, that is what is it all about!  Maths this week: This week we have been recognising how many numbers have been added to some objects and saying the number sentence. For example, I had 6 bears, I covered them up and added more, the children had to quickly count or subitise them and tell me how many I had added. We have also been consolidating our number bonds to 5 and 10.  This to work on at home: -writing first and last name together - this is something Mrs Simpson would like them to be able to do easily in Class 2.  -reco

 Hello,  Welcome to Summer 2! We only have 6 weeks to go, where has that gone?  This term we are on a Journey with Julia Donaldson, last week and this week we have focused our learning around my favourite book, The Gruffalo. The children have done some amazing paintings and writing based on this.  Last weeks highlights: -Our visit to Little Houghton House, especially seeing the helicopter! -PE with Mr Roberts -Enjoying the Gruffalo Cafe in the classroom This week we are continuing with the Gruffalo and are focusing on describing the different characters within the story. Children know that they have to complete any form of writing each day, it has been great to see the different things they come up with (maps/recipes/lists/stories) Maths this term:  We are focusing on doubling, sharing and grouping (Even and Odd), spatial reasoning, patterns, numbers bonds, adding and taking away Literacy this term: writing sentences with taught phonics, reading books with sentences, matched to their p