Apologies for our lack of blog last week. Here is a bumper blog to make up for it!
For the last two weeks our focus in Literacy has been poetry. We have been looking at both rhyming and non-rhyming poems, as well as songs and rhythmic poems. This week we have written our own versions of two poems by Michael Rosen. One is called ‘Move It’ and the other is ‘Conversation’. Before writing the poems we thought of them in talking partners and then performed them to the class. When we were happy that our poems sounded good we wrote them down.
Here are a few examples of our ‘Conversation’ poems…
I am going to a boxing match.
Why?
Because it is fun.
Who?
Me.
Where?
To a boxing match!
How?
Because people are boxing…
I am going to the shops.
Why?
Because I need some tomatoes from the shops.
Why?
Because I need some to make tea.
Why?
Why don’t you stop saying why?
What?
I am going to the loo.
Why?
Because I need a wee.
Why?
Because I have drunk lots of water.
Why?
Just stop saying why!
Why?
Here are a few examples of our ‘Move It’ poems…
On a boat with a coat that could float.
In the car I saw a star when I was eating a bar.
On the plane I played a game.
Make a plane with a flame or a chain with a Great Dane.
Get a train with a crane.
In a car eating a bar and driving far.
In a plane on a lane.
On a plane on the main.
On a boat with a goat wearing a coat.
We have really enjoyed exploring poetry and creating our own poems. We have especially enjoyed thinking of lots of rhyming words!
In our maths lessons this week we have been focusing on counting in tens and learning about odd and even numbers. We have been playing maths games to help us remember what odd and even numbers are, and we have been using hundred squares to help us count in tens. We have learned that if you want to add 10 or take 10 from a number all you have to do is jump down one square or up one square instead of counting in ones (when using a hundred square). It is much easier!
In our Topic Work we have been learning about the history of our community and creating art work similar to the art created by some of the villagers a few years ago. Click the link below to see the art work that inspired ours.
http://www.ilam.org.uk/ilam-story.asp
Mr Boardman started his first weekly Forest Schools session a week last Friday with Ducks and Robins Class. We aim to do a Forsest Schools outdoor learning session every Friday afternoon. The week before last the children made hedgehogs from natural materials – photos of their exciting afternoon are below. During our Forest Schools session on the Friday just gone we made shelters for our hedgehogs, thinking about what would make them warm and comfortable whilst they hibernate. The children role played as ‘estate agents’ selling their homes to Mrs Greenwood the hedgehog and Mr Boardman the hedgehog. It was a difficult decision for the two hedgehogs to make as some of the homes included log fires, swimming pools and even gardens with trees and toys in! Photos of our second Forest Schools session are also below. We look forward to starting Forest Schools again after half term.
Robins Class 