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! :)
Website will be updated weekly, every Friday, with pictures of our learning and any other exciting stuff we get up to!
Please Note: I will be deleting all updates every 2 weeks. This is to help ensure that accessing the website isn't too slow due to the amount of photos uploaded. So make sure you've caught up each week :)
Spring 2 Week 1
Halfway through the school year and we are ready to crack on with lots of new learning this half term
We have already got started with our new book in English, starting by making predictions on what we thought the story might be about! We had a variety of clues and pictures from the story, which helped us with our predictions! Once our new story was revealed (The Flower Block), we read it and started writing! We had a go with some vocabulary sentences and a simile poem about the flowers!
In Maths, we have begun some new work on addition and subtraction number sentences, specifically looking at subtracting sentences this half term. We focused this week on using a number line to count backwards from a number.
We began our new Geography topic this week, learning all about the United Kingdom. We this week focused on the 4 countries that make up the United Kingdom and were able to label them on a map.
To help us identify these 4 countries we were introduced to 4 friends! George from England , Andrew from Scotland, Patrick from Northern Ireland and David from Wales. We discussed that each country had their own special day based on a saint who did important things for the country (hence the names!) As it is St David's Day (Wales) this Sunday, we will have some ST David's day celebrations next week!
In DT we started our new topic of levers and sliders. We spent this weeks lesson just exploring books with different levers and sliders in them, looking at what they do and how they move. We looked at the key words lever, slider and pivot, exploring what they mean and labeling the books with these words. We also had a hunt around the school looking for any of the mechanisms and identified where the pivot was.
Over the half term we left out our Bog Baby habitats to see if we would have any visitors and we did! We couldn't believe that our Bog Babies had come to visit!
Our teachers reading at snack time today! :)
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.