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!
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Week 3
This week in English, we began to look closely at the structural and language features of a letter, in preparation for writing our own. We wrote our own opening paragraph for our letter to the king, ensuring it was convincing and persuasive that he would read on.
In Maths we looked at arrays and how we could use them to help with multiplication. We made groups of numbers by turning them into arrays, that way we can see clearly how many groups their were and how many were in each group because the rows and columns are neatly set out within the array. On Friday we were introduced to the multiplication symbol and started to make number sentences using groups and arrays to help us.
In Geography this week we learnt about the UK's surrounding seas and oceans. To do this we looked at an atlas. It was interesting to see what was in the atlas and then locate the UK page, which had all sorts of information, including a map, landmark facts and the flags (a lot we already knew!)
In Art this week we very excitingly had a visit from an artist- Phil Lloyd (yes, Miss L's dad!). We spent the afternoon looking at the style of his animal and bird drawings, observing closely all the detail he includes. We then did some observational drawing of a feather and he showed us how we can add clear detail. We also played a fun drawing guessing game and had a very fun afternoon!
On Monday we had a surprise visit from a farm, so very excitingly got to stroke and look at a range of farm animals! Some of us even got to feed some lambs and brush some pigs!
Week 2
A very busy and exciting week with lots of new learning!
In English we discovered that we received a letter from the King in our story. It was stating how we must obey his rules with the banning of the dark. We therefore spent the week coming up with the reasons why we shouldn't ban the dark as we are going write him a letter back trying to convince him not to ban it. We did a conscience alley drama activity where Miss Lloyd pretended to be the king while everyone was stating the reason for and against his idea! We came up with lots of reasons for against!
In Maths we have been continuing to count in 2s, 5s and 10s and began to make and identify groups of numbers, in preparation for some children to start multiplication. We looked at making equal groups and then made specific amounts of groups, for example 2 groups of 5. We also looked at the adding number sentences for these groups (2 groups of 5- 5+5), as this will then help prepare for multiplication sentences next weekwith some children.
This week in Science we began our new topic of Plants. Our first lesson was observing different types of fruits and plants to see what they have within them to try and discover how they had grown. Where was the seed, what has it grown from?
We began in the classroom drawing up close different fruits and then went outside to observe some up close plants. We went into the corination garden for this. We discussed what differnt plants we found, some bumpy, some hairy, some with shapes we didn't notice from far away etc!
St George's Day
We had an excellent Thursday this week, celebrating St George's day! We learnt about who St George was and looked at the story of George and the dragon, retelling the story through drama. We also created our own dragon with a variety of characteristics!
To round off the celebrations, we had a parade (video below), with own own crafted shields and flags to wave about!
As part of our all about England day, we also learnt about some of the different landmarks in England. We played a match the name to landmark game and then chose our favourite landmark to write a mini poster about. We learnt about- The London Eye, Hadrian's Wall, The Eden Project, Stonehenge, The Roman Baths, Buckingham Palace, Durdle Door and Big Ben.
Retelling the story of George & the Dragon!
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Looking at the different England landmarks
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Made shields & flags!
10/12
Parade Time!
11/12
New Playground Equipment!
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.