Week 6 – The Easter Story
We have had a busy week in Reception! Our focus this week has been learning more about The Easter Story. We have learnt more about why this time of year is important to Christians and what things might happen over the Easter period.
We used repeating patterns to decorate eggs and Easter cards. We also used natural materials to create a cross.
In our maths sessions we learnt more about sorting different items. Did you know there are so many ways to sort things. One of our favourite ways was to sort our class by age. We found out that some people in our class are 4 and some people are 5. Some people are a little older than that too!
Our grass heads have started to grow hair! We are very excited to see what they are going to be like when we return from the Easter break.
Our poem this week was also about seeds and growing. We hope you like it.
A huge thank you to our lovely school PTA who organised a very exciting egg hunt for us this afternoon. We loved hunting for rabbit foot prints and our prizes look very yummy!
I would like to thank everyone for their support this term. It has been an exciting term of learning. I hope you all have a wonderful Easter break and fingers crossed the sun will shine for us a little!
Mrs Payne
Persuasive writing
Yesterday, when the children came to school, they noticed all their chairs had gone! They soon found out that the chairs had gone on strike as they were fed up of not being sat on properly amongst other reasons.
The children had to write a letter to the chairs to persuade them to come back. We shared some of our ideas before writing our letters.
Please come back chairs because you help us to relax and also we like you.
Please come back because if you are here we won’t have to sit on our knees and you help us to concentrate.
Where have you gone?
Please come back so you can help us to do our neatest handwriting.
Suddenly, there was a BANG BANG BANG on the classroom door so we rushed to see who it was!
One of the chairs had come to hear our persuasive writing to see if we could persuade the chairs to come back!
After listening to us, the chairs decided they would return. We were all very happy!
Easter Church Service
We enjoyed a trip to St James’ Church earlier today for our Easter service.
Years 3 and 4 read our poem ‘Easter In My Hand’ beautifully. Many children could recite their line from memory!
In case you missed this, please follow the link below to watch the recording.
Well done Years 3 and 4!
Persuasive writing!
We were so shocked this morning when we came into school and our chairs were on STRIKE!
The books last week, the chairs this week… what’s next!?
Our challenge was to write a persuasive letter to the chairs to get them to change their minds and let us use them again.
Our writing was so persuasive that the chairs wrote us a letter back saying we could use them again!
Pirate Bonnie and her swash buckling adventures!
This week, year 1 and 2 were lucky to take an adventure to Wetherby library to meet Pirate Bonnie and hear all about her swashbuckling adventures.
We heard tales of old – of pirates that lived long ago. Pirates who faced adversity and persevered through difficulty to become legendary pirates.
We saw a book that was 300 years old and had pictures and stories about the pirates we had just heard about.
A busy week in Year 1
Yesterday, our books went on stike! In English, we have been using persuasive writing, focusing on conjunctions and questions to persuade the books to let us read them again!
Luckily, we produced some lovely writing and were able to enjoy reading in our reading area again!
In Maths, we’ve been learning how to group by tens and then add on the extra ones.
In Topic, we’ve been planning and creating algorithms and working together to debug any that weren’t working properly.
Week 5 – The tiny seed
We have had a wonderful week this week learning more about growing and the changes that happen through the seasons. Our focus story ‘The tiny seed’ takes us on a journey through the seasons as a tiny seed. We have done some fantastic writing telling others about how to plant seeds and also how a seed changes through the seasons.
In our maths lessons this week we have been learning more about doubles. With the help of the number blocks we spotted patterns. Olly told us” I can see that 8 is double 4 because 4 plus 4 equals 8″. We used everyday objects to create our own doubles.
We have also created some new friends! We have made our own grass heads! We have discussed what the seeds will need and how we can be fantastic gardeners and help them to grow. Keep a look out for regular updates on our class page.
Our poem of the week is called ‘hungry birdies’ We have been working really hard on the actions so we can create birds using our hands. We hope you like it.
As always if you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Mrs Payne
Maths: more money!
Wow – what progress we’ve been making in our maths learning all about money! Today, we thought about how we can make a pound (£1) using different combinations of pence coins. We know that £1 = 100p.
We used our knowledge of related maths facts to help us work out how many coins with the same value we’d need to make £1.
Then, we used coins with different values!
Working Scientifically
Asking questions is a very important part of thinking like a scientist and many scientific investigations begin with a question. As part of their ‘Nappy Challenge,’ the children have been exploring some scientific questions and how they could answer these.
- ‘Why… ?’
- ‘How… ?’
- ‘When… ?’
- ‘What….?’
- ‘Which….?’
- ‘Can you explain…?’
Wow, the liquid is soaking in!
I can’t believe how much liquid a nappy can absorb!
My prediction was quite accurate.
You can see the liquid being absorbed.
The more liquid we poured, the heavier the nappy became.
As we poured 600mls, we observed how the liquid was beginning to collect on the surface of the nappy. This would irritate a baby’s delicate skin.
Discuss this with your child. Can they explain the answer to the scientific question? What did they find out? Were they surprised by the result?
Writing: persuasion
This week, we’ve started to think about persuasion in our Writing lessons. To write persuasively means to encourage someone to change their thinking through writing a letter, email or even a speech.
We were really shocked when we came into school and couldn’t use our book corner!
Don’t throw us on the rug! STOP putting us away in the wrong place! Don’t rip the pages – it hurts!
Our challenge this week is to work together to write persuasively to encourage the books to let us read them again.
“If we don’t have books, how will we learn to love reading?
“Do you not enjoy being read by us?
“Reading is good for your mind because it takes you into new and imaginative worlds!”
We talked about how exclamatory (!) and question (?) sentence types can persuade someone to change their thinking. We also talked about the use of because and if to make the audience think.
Help at home by encouraging your child to think persuasively to help them with their writing. Perhaps they could persuade you to read an extra bedtime story or to go to the park!