Autumn

We designed our wraps in DT, ready to make next week.

On Friday, we had ‘Carrot Day’! This was to celebrate Harvest and create some carrot- themed decorations for Ely Cathedral’s harvest display. The children enjoyed writing carrot acrostic poems, measuring carrots and completing some carrot sewing in the afternoon. 

Week 4 

This week, in English, we started looking at a new text, ‘The Snow Queen.’ The children were very good at coming up with actions for each part of the story. We also began describing the setting using exciting adjectives. 

In Maths, we looked at our 2-, 5- and 10-times tables. We know that all numbers in the 2 times tables are even, all number in the 5 times tables end in 5 and 0 and in the 10 times tables, they always end in a 0. 

 The children were very excited in DT to finally be making their wraps! They used the plans we completed last week, and they chose from the ingredients we taste-tested. The children enjoyed eating these at the end of the lesson!

Week 5

 We continued our learning about ‘The Snow Queen’ in English this week. 

We focussed on skills that can help us write interesting setting descriptions like, similes, adjectives, adverbs and sentences of 3. The children described

 a picture using those techniques.  

In Maths, we revisited number bonds to 10. The children used 10s frames and counters to help them notice which numbers add together to make 10. 

In Music, the children have been getting better and better at playing their recorders along to a music track. They have learned how to play the notes A, C, B and G. 

In DT, we reviewed our wraps that we made last week. Most of the children’s reviews were positive ones!

Week 6

 We continued our learning about setting descriptions and the children had a go at writing some descriptions for some different pictures. They were very good at coming up with interesting similes to describe parts of the settings. 

In Maths we looked at number bonds to 100. We noticed that they follow the same pattern as number bonds to 10. E.g. – 1 +9 = 10 and 10 + 90 = 100In Science, we designed a ‘healthy plate’, this included food from each food group, carbohydrates, protein, dairy, fruit and vegetables, fats. 

In Art, we had a go at recreating our own versions of Klee’s ‘Three Houses.’ We noticed that different geometric shapes were used in his art so, we tried to replicate this in our own. 

Week 7

 In English we completed our learning about setting descriptions by doing our own, independent innovation. The children chose a setting and planned, then wrote about it using the writing techniques we had focussed on. 

In Maths, we looked at adding to the next 10. To do this, we needed to use our number bonds knowledge to support us. 

The children painted their ‘Three Houses’ drawings from last week. We used one colour and added white to make it lighter and black to make it darker. 

We are so impressed with how hard the children worked this half term and can’t wait for another half term of learning!

Week 2

Our learning about ‘Cinderella’ continued in English this week. The focus was on describing the characters from the story using adjectives and adverbs. 

In Maths, we have looked at adding 10s. We noticed that when we add 10s to a number, the 1s stay the same, only the 10s change. 

In DT, we continued looking at Ferris wheel designs and talked about what materials would be suitable for each part to be made from. 

In Art, we will be using our painting from last week and cutting out geometric and organic shapes to replicate Matisse’s art work. 

We loved having 'Crazy Hair Day' and Christmas decoration morning this week!