Welcome to Chestnut Class!
Miss Lloyd & Mrs Jones
I am so excited to get started and stuck in with lots of new learning, develop new skills and work with a variety of new children! Chestnut will have many opportunities for new friendship building, teamwork, independent opportunities and sharing their voice! So let's have an incredible year together! :)
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Week 4
Another busy busy week!
In English this week, we began by writing a mini note to the grumpy character in our story: Old Man Mr Crisp. We practiced our question sentences by asking him for some help after explaining what the problem was from the view of the main character: Jeremiah. Last week we practiced this interaction through role play and then wrote it as a note this week.
We also began to plan and start writing our final piece of writing: a diary entry explaining everything that had happened in the block with the flowers! We thought about all the key features that needed to be included in our diaries, including question and exclamation sentences, with the year 2s ensuring they put in the plans all of the newly learnt grammar.
In Maths we were looking at subtracting 2 digit numbers by having to regroup (smash the tens!) Questions where you needed to cross the ten, for example 46-38 (because the ones are greater) required us to 'smash the tens' which meant changing a ten for ten ones so subtracting the ones would be easier. We would do this using base 10 resources.
Some year 1s were also recapping on their number bonds to 10 though numicon, blocks and numberlines and were creating additiona nd subtraction snenteces for them.
We celebrated St Patrick's Day this week and learnt about the history of this day. We discovered that the saint 'Patrick' brought Christianity to all of Ireland. We learnt about how St Patrick's Day was celebrated, with all things green (we saw a video of a river in New York that had been dyed green!), shamrocks, types of foods and also Leprechauns. We learnt that Leprechauns were cheeky and naughty legends who loved all things green and shiny and no one has ever seen one before! So we made it our mission to try and trap one! We collected anything green and shiny and made a trap, in the hope that the next day we would find a Leprechaun! Unfortunately when we got to school the next morning we had found that the Leprechaun had been and gone , taking all the green and shiny treasure and left the classroom an absolute mess! He even got our camera and took some photos!
Trap setting!
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The next morning!!
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The Leprechaun taking pictures on our camera!
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Some Red Nose day fun!
The day included, some comic relief math's challenges and poster writing about what comic relief was!
We also throughout the week have been tracking Radio 1 DJ Greg James on his cycle from Weymouth to Edinburgh to raise money for comic relief! We have been using our map from our Geography topic to mark which city or town he has reached each day! We managed to watch the moment he got to Edinburgh which was amazing to see! All the children were so interested and proud of his achievement! Go Greg!!!
Week 3
Another packed week of learning!
In English this week, we were analysing the example text which was a diary written by the main character of the story. From next week we will start to write our own diary as if we were the main character so it was useful to pick one apart so we know how to write it ourselves. We searched for structural and language features, for example a title, paragraphs, adjectives, verbs etc. We also learnt about present and past tense verbs, understanding that where a verb is in the past you can add -ed to the end!
In Maths this week we continued our focus on subtracting, subtracting 2 digit numbers and also 1 digit numbers using blocks and numberlines. For subtracting 2 digit numbers we used we needed to take away the tens and the ones so for this used base 10 to help us and number lines where we did jumps of 10s and 1s.
Some children practicing taking a way 1 digit numbers with blocks and numicon.
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Some children practicing taking a way 1 digit numbers with blocks and numicon.
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Some children practicing taking a way 1 digit numbers with blocks and numicon.
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Some children practicing taking a way 1 digit numbers with blocks and numicon.
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In Geography this week we continued to learn about the UK and its 4 countries but this week we added the capital cities to each country! We first looked at some satellite photos of the UK, noticing areas which had more green (physical features, vilages/towns) and other areas with more white and browns (human features, cities). Through this observation we were able to see where in each country the city was as we know cites have more human features. We looked at pictures from each capital and tried to guess which capital belonged to which country based on the physical and human features in the pictures.
In DT we have been learning about lever and slider mechanisms. We have explored these mechanisms in a variety of moving books and this week we had a go at making a lever and slider. We made some slider mother's day cards and practiced using split pins to make a lever.
Knowledge Organisers
Please find below the knowledge organisers linked to your child's learning this term. This document provides details of the key knowledge the children are expected to learn across the sequence of learning. We would encourage parents and carers to look at these with their children and regularly spend time discussing the facts on the sheets.