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 5
Another fun filled week! :)
In English this week we began to plan our first big writing piece. Together as a class we made a plan. We will be writing a circular narrative where the character starts in one place (home), goes on a journey and then ends up back in the first place (home). We are basing our story on our class book this half term 'A River'. We took ideas from this story and have added it into our own. Together we chose which settings we wanted our character to travel through and was introduced to our 'Story Friends'. The story friends help us with each paragraph (Octopus Opening, Build Up Bear, Problem Penguin and Elephant Ending). We discussed what things we might see, hear and feel in each setting and added this to our plan. We then discussed the structure of the story and the year 2s added any of their newly learnt grammar ideas to the plan. Next week we will begin writing our story.
In Maths this week we were all looking at ordering and comparing numbers. Year 1s focused on the language greater than, less than and equal too, to compare numbers and amounts while the year 2s used the symbols <, >, = to compare (however the year 1s also showed an excellent understanding of these symbols too!). We then focused on ordering numbers, looking at the most and the fewest. We each in groups looked at who had the most and fewest letters in their name.
In History this week, we looked at the responses from our parents to our questions about old toys they used to play with. We discussed their answers as a class and then in pairs went on computers to research pictures of the toys, especially if we hadn't heard of them before! (Apologies, I didn't manage to take many pictures of this :( )
This week we have had a big focus on personal space and understanding what this is and why it is important to maintain it. We played a few personal space games with one of them tying in nicely with our science from last week. We were finally able to play the shadow tag game, with the aim that the children could only tag each others shadows and not touch bodies or get into each others personal space. I then set the class a few challenges of moving around the field without stepping in anyone's shadow and finished with asking them to stand in a line but they still couldn't step on shadows! They were very successful with this! :)
In Art
Forest School Week 4
Week 4
Another jam packed week with lots of learning!
In English this week, we have continued to use wise owl to analyse the text and story. We specifically looked a lot at the settings in the story, showing through drama what it might be like to be in these settings 'stepping in' and talking about what we might see, hear or feel. From this we wrote some setting descriptions.
In Maths we have been looking at a variety of topics. Year 1 have been focusing on understanding number lines and understanding when a number is greater than, less than or the same as. Year 2 have continued to look at the place value of numbers, using concrete resources to show it in a variety of ways. Children needed to place the numbers in both a place value chart and part whole model.
In History this week we were focusing in on the detail of our wooden toys that appeared in the toy shop, preparing them for our own 'Toy Museum'. In groups we took pictures pf he toys then together wrote a description on the toys.
In RE this half term we are learning about the religion 'Judaism'. This week we learnt about the recently celebrated new year holiday , 'Rosh Hashana'. We looked into the different ways they celebrate this including writing cards, eating challah bread, sounding the shofar (trumpet type instrument), eat pomegranate. Each way of celebrating had a specific meaning. For example the pomegranate was to do with the Jewish laws. All 613 seeds in a pomegranate represented one of these laws. Another way they celebrated was dipping some apple into honey. This was to represent having a sweet year! So we had to give this ago! We said a blessing , asking for a sweet year , then dipped and ate!
In Science this week we were looking at shadows. Unfortunately the weather was not in our favor this afternoon because we got no sun (even though the weather said there was supposed to be some! :/ )
But alas, we still made it work! We spoke about how night and day works, where on a globe we held a torch up and spun the earth around showing which countries were in day, because the sun was shining onto them, and which countries were in night.
We spoke about depending on where the sun is in the sky, that will determine the size of our shadows. The lower the sun is the longer/bigger shadow and the higher the sun is shorter/smaller a shadow is. We tried this out by making shadow puppets and using a torch to make long and short shadows.
When the sun decided to very slightly poke out, we all went outside and played some shadow tag. Jumping in each others shadows. Next week when there is some proper sun (hopefully!) we will measure and draw around shadows outside.
This week in Art we were focusing on our scrapbooks and ensuring that we were 'owning them' . One way we made them our own was by changing some of the pages inside by adding different areas/surfaces we may want to do our art on in the future. For example we made envelopes, stuck different materials down for different surfaces, added bigger pages etc.
Forest School Week 3
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.