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 :)
The Final Week and a Bit!
We have so nearly made it and this week we have still been working extra hard, and have stayed very busy! It has been a week of performances, important jobs , move up afternoon and lots of fun!!!
We have been having lots of fun writing opportunities, practicing our sentence writing in phonics/spelling by writing silly but interesting sentences with new spelling patterns.
In Math's we have been learning to measure mass. We have learnt what it means by 'heavier' and 'lighter', showing this on a balance scale, as well as learning how we measure mass using grams and kilograms. We learnt that 1g is the mass of a safety pin so then when we learnt about kilograms we discovered that 1kg would be 1000 safety pins! We got up a picture of this to see!
Do make sure you come and check our class page 1 last time next Wednesday to see what fun we have got up to on the last 3 days!
We will be finishing our DT, making our mini cushions! Making some potato people, and having a big party celebration on the last day!
Week 6
The end is near but we are still going!
We began writing our invention narratives in English this week, using all our learnt grammar techniques from across the year. We have been particularly practicing noun & expanded noun phrases to describe things in our stories so they are as interesting as possible!
In Maths this week we have been measuring length and height. We began by using non-standard objects like blocks and then went onto measuring centimetres with a ruler and metres. We compared different lengths and heights and put some order, being careful to check whether it was in centimetres or metres as we learnt a metre is longer than a centimetre. We even had a go at measuring the roundhouse to see how many metres long it was!
In RE this week, we had a go at retelling the stories of the parables we have been learning about, through acting. We acted out the 'Good Samaritan' story thinking about how the different characters act!
Very excitingly this week, we decided to have a look at our potato plants and began to dig them up. We were amazed at how many potatoes we grew so will be thinking about how we can use them next week! We came to the conclusion that these potatoes needed lots of sun to grow really well as we haven't had very much rain the last few weeks!
In History this week, we learnt about how life and specifically homes were different for the rich and poor in the Victorian times. We learnt that rich people would live in large detached houses and poor people would live in small terraced houses (or s'lums', with around 15 people in 1 bedroom! We compared the 2 looking how different they were! We linked this learning locally to 'Uppark House' thinking about what types of people would've lived in this house. We then drew the 2 different types of houses, labeling them with key information.
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.