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 :)
Week 4
My oh my, what a hot hot week!!This week a much more relaxed approach was taken to learning due to the heat. To begin the week, we did some reading and maths question papers so not as much new learning in these areas this week.
On Thursday we decided to have a Science learning day, all about different animal and their habitats. We began by learning about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, identifying the different animals in these categories and what they would eat. We then in groups chose an animal to research, making a fact poster about it. We looked specifically at what it ate, where it lived and what it looked like. After we had done our posters we created a habitat for it, thinking about what type of living condition it would need. Sandy desert? Grassy grassland? forest with trees for shelter or food? Water area?
In PSHE, the year 2s this week were looking at how we change as we get older and the different things we might learn and do at different stages of our lives. We discussed that some things will happen naturally and some we learn. For example, walking, reading, driving a car.
The year 1s were identifying physical body changes by looking at a baby pictures of Miss Lloyd, talking about changes we can't control. For example, hair colour, arm and leg size etc.
We found lots of ways to ensure to stay cool. Lots of ice and water play, staying in the shade, ice lollies and chilled activities!
In DT this week, we had a go at experimenting with different joining techniques with fabric. We did some gluing, stapling, sewing and tying.
Week 3
A busy busy week with sports day and lots of new learning!
In English this week, we have been focusing on our example text, 'Frankie Flapper and the Flying Machine', linked with our main story 'Rosie Revere, Engineer'. We have been looking for structural and language features throughout the text, as we will be writing our own invention narrative in a couple of weeks.
To plan for this, we came up with our our own class invention that we will be writing about as well as a character for the story. We used AI to combine all our ideas together and create the final invention. We started with the compound noun- armchair and added extras from there!
Below and behold: The Flying, Banana Shooting, Armchair. - An easy way to hand out snack!
In Maths this week, we have continued our work on fractions, focusing on 1/4 and 1/3. We have been learning that these fractions represent four equal parts and three equal parts. We are becoming increasingly confident in using methods to solve fraction problems and understand that dividing quantities into equal parts is essential for finding the correct answer. We have applied this learning to both shapes and quantities.
In Science this week we have been learning the basic human needs, discussing what we have that is a want and what is a necessity. We imagined that we were stuck on a dessert island and a very small boat sailed past with only the essentials! What would we need? We decided on, food, water, shelter, ways to stay clean and warm! We discussed how items like our toys and pets etc would be a want and would help us to stay happy but not an essential.
In History this week we went on our walk around the village to look for clues of the past! We took our annotated picture of a Victorian house from last lesson and looked for any houses in Harting that had similar features. We saw bay and stained glass windows, chimneys, porches and patterned brick and woodwork! As well as these, we also noticed other areas of the village that had clues of the past. We saw the Old School House (now Ottilies's house!!) and the WW2 memorial at the church!
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.