Word Bingo

Mrs Millar's phonics group had lots of fun playing word bingo. They had to listen to the words to see if they had them on their bingo card. The winner was the the first person to cover all of their words. The words included ch, ee, ay, igh, oo & ow sounds.

Blending

In phonics today we tried really hard to recap all the sounds we have learnt so far. We worked with a partner to try to segment sounds in words and then blend them together. We took it in turns to read the words. 

We then played pass the sounds and we had to think of words to match the sound we had chosen. 

Say no to bullying!

This week was anti-bullying awareness week. To raise awareness of this we watched the ugly duckling to shape our thoughts about how it might feel to be bullied. Following this we shared lots of ideas for how to make everyone feel included and happy in school. To make a pact of friendship and kindness we made a friendship flower using blue to represent anti-bullying. 

Writing

We have been writing about our favourite toy this week. We tried really hard to write the sounds we could hear in each word. Here is some of our work...

Favourite Toy

Today we started to draw our favourite toy in a small group. We then helped each other to give feedback on our drawings. We knew we had to give some warm feedback and some kind suggestions for how our drawings could be made even better! 

Have a look at some of the work we started! 

We need to remember the three rules of Critique... Be Kind, Be Specific and Be Helpful. 

Subtracting

We have blown Miss Broxholme's and Mrs Millar's socks off with our maths this week. We have learnt what subtraction means and have tried lots of different methods to help us to take away.

Children in Need

Today we have had a super day taking part in raising money for Children in Need. We were very lucky to have a surprise visit from Pudsey Bear and he came into the hall to meet us all. The radio came in to speak to lots of us and we were able to shake Pudseys hand which was very exciting. 

Remembrance Day

Today the children went into assembly and with the rest of the school they listened to a story about remembrance. At 11.00 they stood for 2 minutes silence to remember the people that have fought and are still fighting for our country.

The children stood beautifully for the silence and made all of their teachers proud.

Diwali

This week the children have been finding out about Diwali. They learnt that it is a Hindu celebration of the festival of light. At the beginning of the week the children watched a short film about Diwali then during the week they have taken part in lots of different activities.

They made Rangoli patterns in spiced play dough with lentils, coloured in Mendhi patterns and made Diva lamps with salt dough and decorated them with sequins.

Sparklers

The children had so much fun holding sparklers today. They thought the sparklers made crackling, fizzing and crunching sounds. It was lots of fun moving the sparklers around.

Author Day

Today we studied Julia Donaldson's 'Room on the Broom.' We joined together with FS1 and worked in the hall. There were lots of different stations that we could work on. There was lots to choose from and we even got to eat some yummy witches hats we made.