This week we applied the knowledge and skills we have been learning to more challenging and abstract tasks. we continue to discuss the importance of giving things a go and stretching our brains and  It was bucket fillling to see children work with resilience and perisistence.

In English this week we:

-continued our bookmaking with the focus on ‘what makes a book finished?’ And the components of a front cover

-engaged with words detective tasks on the letters ‘I’ and ‘M’. This included  collaborative word search, brainstorms and catalogue spotting

-began blending some of the sounds we have learnt into words. (Such as sip, map, tap)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOiNSTsIvfA

In maths we

• created independent and collaborative number lines (1-20)
• Engaged with counting collections (1-20)
• Discussed the importance of counting in order (everyday contexts)
• Engaged in number games

In Hass we:

Explored the uniqueness and our names. We  constructed collaborative research of the history and origins of each of our names and created name tags.

In Health we:

Discussed what makes as special and unique and represent this through drawings

 

In technologies we

• collected data (photos) of numbers in our local environment. We noticed that lots of things have numbers which represent different things for diffeeent purposes.

In science we:

• had deeper discussions about what makes something living. Some key things discovered included: living beings can’t move on their own and they all grow.
• Collected data through drawings on the growth of our living beings. We noticed that they weren’t growing yet and decided they needed more sunlight.

In Religion we:

-discussed project compassion and thought about ways that we can help others in the world.