Living and Learning: reflecting on my learning and remembering what I’ve learnt.
In Living and Learning circle time, we talked about remembering our learning. We then talked about the importance of reflecting on our learning. We passed the ball around the circle and said something that is going well in our learning and reflected on something we would like to improve.
Here are some of the things we remember about our learning:
- Facts from around the world.
- Counting in 5s.
- How to write the right way around.
- Using capital letters and full stops.
- Writing and phonics.
- Counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.
- Ordering numbers.
- Time Travel topic – learning that chronological order is oldest to newest.
- Using contractions.
Here are some of our ideas for how we would like to improve our learning.
- Improve the size of my writing.
- Writing on the line and using finger spaces.
- Writing in full sentences.
- Practising counting in 3s.
- Joining my handwriting.
Year 1 and 2 Super Stars!
In Year 1 and 2, we have a marble jar that we try to fill as a class. We can earn marbles for lining up quietly, following instructions and working together as a team.
We were very excited to have filled our marble jar today so we voted on our treat – democracy in action! The children chose to have extra playtime where they were allowed to have the equipment out, play football and play on the slide.
Here are some pictures of us enjoying our treat.
Living and Learning: I am resourceful and I am resilient.
In our Living and Learning session, we talked about being resourceful and resilient.
Willow told us it would be resourceful to use a dictionary or to search for the word on the internet if you were reading and didn’t know what a word meant. Mikey said that if you needed a glue stick and didn’t have one you could use sticky tape or double-sided tape. Ellie pointed out that if you didn’t have any pink paint you could mix red and white. Leah said that if you are reading and you can’t read a word you can use your phonics to help you.
We then thought about resilience. We talked about how you might feel if you were learning something new. Emilija said you might be anxious because you might not know what to do. Daisy said that if you can’t do something straight away, you need to think about it. Mikey told us that he struggled to learn to count to 100 but he kept practising and felt happy when he could do it. We listened to the saying:
“Try to keep going, try to keep smiling, even when things get bad.
Try to keep going, try to keep smiling, then you won’t feel so sad.”
Where in the world?
For the past three weeks, we have had a mini topic of “Where in the world?”.
The children have been learning all about the world around them: which town they live in, which country their town is in and the names and locations of the continents and oceans.
They have enjoyed listening to a song about the continents to help learn their names and a song about the oceans, too. Today, we put all of that knowledge together and labelled both the continents and the oceans.
This lesson linked in with our homework – “I know some Where in the World facts”. Here are some facts that we knew.
- Eliza – ‘I learnt how to say hello in Spanish “Ola”.’
- Ellie – ‘I learnt the 5 oceans – the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern and the Artic.’
- Jack – ‘I learnt how to say good afternoon in different languages – Buenas tardes (Spanish) boa tarde (Portuguese) bonne après-midi (French) guten nachmittag (German).’
- Daisy and Emilija – ‘We learnt the names of the different continents – Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, Antarctica, North America and South America.’
Living and Learning: I can take a safe risk and be responsible
Fantastic Creative Homework
This week, year 1 and 2 were given the creative homework task: I can show what I know about a country. They could choose any country they wished and present this in any way. Here are a few of our creative homework with a wide variety of countries represented.
Living and Learning: to be ready and to respond
This week our living and learning statement is “I can I am ready to learn and I can respond to feedback“.
We talked about how we can show we are ready to learn.
Jack said, “We need to look at the teacher, have your book out and get a pencil ready.”
Dexter said, “We follow instructions.”
Willow said, “We are ready by listening, looking at the teacher and doing whatever they ask you to do.”
We talked about feedback and how we use it to know what we did well and how to improve. The things that help us improve are our next steps in our books.
Library Visit
Today, your child has brought home a book from our school library.
Each week, we will visit the library and the children have an opportunity to take home a book each week. Books will be changed each week at school – this will usually be on a Tuesday.
Have a look at our excited faces at being able to take a book of our choice home!
Living and Learning: I can greet someone politely
This Living and Learning statement is the first of the half-term. It launches our theme of friendship, which is one of the Christian values.
‘A friend loves at all times.’ (Proverbs 17:17)
We talked about how to greet someone politely and the different things we could say. We discussed how our tone of voice and body language can influence our greetings. We turned to the person next to us and greeted them.
Here are some of our greetings:
- Hello, I hope you have a nice day.
- How are you today?
- Are you having a nice day?
- Hello, what are you called?