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! :)
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Week 6
We have officially made it halfway through the school year (absolutely crazy! :O ) We have had a final week of fun to end this half term.
In English we continued with looking at the vocabulary from our story 'The Bog Baby' and using it in pieces of writing. We focused this week on the words: bluebell, pale, damp and gravel. We wrote a bluebell poem, a description of a pond setting (using these words to help describe) and most excitingly a Bog Baby food menu! We used expanded noun phrases to describe what our Bog Babies will eat.
To round off our Bog Baby book, we couldn't not have a go a making our very own Bog Baby habitats for our Bog Baby Creatures! We collected everything we would need, mud, sand, gravel, weeds and made sure to follow our instructions carefully. We will leave our habitats at school over the half term in the hope that we might have some visitors when we return....!
In Maths, we were recapping on different bits of our place value topic to round it off. We focused on place value charts and complex 1 more and 1 less questions. To end the week we played some place value games, including a number relay and some place value bingo. The children were shown a number in the form of base 10 or a different representation and they needed to work out what the number was and show it.
To round off our materials topic in Science, we this week thought about the 3 little pigs story and discussed which material would be best for a house. We discussed that straw was too light, too flexible and bendy and not strong enough. The sticks were stronger, but still too light and flexible. Whereas the bricks were strong, sturdy, hard and would hold easily. We put all of this to the test and had a go at making house from these 3 materials. We discovered that the straw and the sticks would need lots of support to help hold.
Week 5
This week in English, we continued writing our Bog Baby habitat instructions and edited where necessary, adding to our sentences if needed. We also this week excitingly have designed our own Bog Baby creature, naming it and giving it their own personality. We wrote a character description on it, including adverbs and expanded noun phrases as well as ensuring to remember we include a capital letter for their name!
In Maths, we looked at comparing and ordering numbers, using the 'crocodile' symbols to show greater than and less than. We made some sentences ourself and chose which symbol we needed to use. We also looked at 1 more and 1 less on larger numbers, using base 10 and number lines to help us work it out.
In History this week, we learnt about what a timeline was and began to input important dates on Neil Armstrong and Mae Jemison onto our own timeline. We focused on looking at the years and how we can look at these to help understand what order they go in. We learnt that Mae Jemison was born in the same year that Neil Armstrong first flew a plane!
In Art this week, we really started to look at what we could see on our water colour painting and have now started to create something our of it. Using other art materials like ink pens, oil pastels, crayons, pencils and collaging, we added to our painting and developed it further! What can you see?
This week, we very excitingly had a hedgehog come to visit! We got to see him run around and asked different questions about where he lives, what he eats etc!
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.