Week commencing 23rd June 2024

In English this week we have become puffin experts! Grandma lives on a remote Scottish island where there are lots of endangered birds. We learned all about puffins and how they live and we are now able to share lots of puffin facts! Did you know that puffins can live for twenty years and that they mate for life? Our favourite fact was that a baby puffin is called a puffling. We used this knowledge to support us to write sentences about the wildlife on Foula in our letter to Noi. We really enjoyed this learning! In maths this week we have continued our addition and subtraction learning. We have enjoyed using numberlines and base ten equipment to help us to secure our understanding. 

Week commencing 17th June 2024

In English this week we have continued to work on our Grandma Bird story. We have begun our letter to Noi and we have told him all about our exciting news - we have made a new soup! Noi was not a fan of Grandma's seaweed soup so we spent some time researching different recipes and imagining a new, delicious soup. The children were able to explore lots of adjectives to describe their ingredients, telling Noi how delicious it would be. In Maths we have continued to consolidate our addition and subtraction learning.  

Week commencing 10th June 2024

In English this week we have begun our new unit of writing based on the story Grandma Bird, by Benji Davies. This lovely story follows a little boy called Noi who goes to stay with his Grandmother on the Isle of Foula one summer. We have listened to the story and explored our model text, a letter written by Noi to his Grandmother. We have begun to talk about the different features of a letter and to write our own letter in reply to Noi.

In maths this week we have continued to work at our addition and subtraction consolidation. We have reviewed our bonds to 100 and have begun to add and subtract ones from any number.

Week commening 4th June 2024

In English this week we have been completing our independent innovated Red Riding Hood story. The children renamesd their character and had them walking along a beach collecting seashells and seaweed on their way to Grandad's house. Lots of the children included the features we have been practicing and they should be proud of their efforts. Well done!

In Maths we have moved our learning onto addition and subtraction. We have been revisiting the key vocabulary that we need and have been reviewing our number bonds to support us to add and subtract efficiently.

Week commencing 20th May 2024

In English this week we have continued to practice skills based on our Little Red Riding Hood story. We have described the wolf arriving at Grandma's house using suffixes and we have used feelings and inner thoughts to describe how Granny felt when the wolf arrived! We then planned our independent writing sequence to complete after half term. In Maths we have continued to consolidate our place value learning by comparing and ordering objects and numbers.

Week commencing 13th May 2024

This week we have continued to explore our Little Red Riding Hood story. We have used repetition for effect and alliteration with greath success! The children really impressed me with their alliteration ideas for the flowers that Little Red Riding Hood picked; we had dancing daisies, ruby, red roses and pretty, pink poppies too!

In Maths we have continued to work on our place value. We have used number lines and have paritioned and written numbers within 100. Well done!

Week commencing 6th May 2024

This week we have worked extremely hard on our new story, Little Red Riding Hood. We have experienced a virtual woodland walk to gather vocabulary and have used this effectively in our writing to describe Little Red Riding Hood's walk through the forest. In Maths we have continued to consolidate our understanding of place value. We have been identifying and partitioning tens and ones and have reviewed how to use place value charts and part whole models.

The children have really impressed me with their attitudes towards their learning this week. Well done!

Week commencing 29th April 2024

How lovely it was to have out classroom back! We have made the most of it and have completed some fantastic work this week. In English we have completed our work on the Building Boy. We finished reading the story and loved that the boy achieved his dreams and goals at the end of it. Some of our predictions were entirely correct, he did build a robot Grandma! We spent Friday listening to and story mapping the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood. This will support us as we move on to our next piece of narrative writing. We were wonderful at re-telling parts of the story and some of us have absolutely mastered the Big Bad Wolf's voice!

In Maths we completed our learning in position and direction. We will review this before the year is completed and we are continuing to practice knowing our left and right. Please help with this at home if you can! Next week we will begin consolidating our learning for the year. We will revisit place value and addition and subtraction in the coming weeks. 

Week commencing 22nd April 2024

We have had the builders in this week which has meant that we have been completing our learning in all sorts of places whilst the work is completed. The children have been incredible and have shown a real resilience in their learning this week. We have all had to adapt and work well together and I am very impressed! 

In Maths this week we completed our statistics learning with drawing and interpreting pictograms. We had the tricky task of counting in 2's, 5's and 10's which we were able to manage with careful counting and using some blocks to help us. We are moving on to position and direction next week.

In English we have continued our learning around The Building Boy. We had another experience lesson when we talked about losing a loved one. We talked about all of the people we love and why we love them. From the answers the children gave, it is clear we have some amazing grown ups and families at home! We have been focussing on using effective language in our sentences this week, describing the sounds and movement of the wind and using lots of precise adjectives to describe things that our character, Tom, could see. We are hopefully back in our lovely classroom next week for more fantastic learning.

Week commencing 15th April 2024

Wow, what a week in the Everest room! We have spent some time getting to know each other this week and all of the children have settled into their learning beautifully. Well done!

In Maths this week we have been focussing on statistics. We have learned how to use and draw a tally chart and how to interpret and draw tables. We learned that tables are better when the information is countable and that tallys are better when we are gathering data over time. It has been tricky learning but the children have persevered and shown that they are ready to learn.

In English we have begun our new story, The Building boy by Ross Montgomery. We began the week with some beautiful sentences and then we were able to enjoy an experience day where we learned all about being an architect. The children designed new buildings on blueprint paper and followed their own specifications. We had the tallest buildings, the widest buildings, the shiniest building and even the pointiest buildings!

Well done children. You have had a brilliant week!