Doves 2020-2021
25/09/2020
We've had another exciting week in Doves class. We came into school on Tuesday to find that the mysterious egg had hatched and there was burnt paper and ash all over the classroom floor leading to the outside. We then got a letter from the Minister of Dragons to say that there had been sightings of dragons in our area! We decided that it must have been a dragon's egg and thought we should write letters back to let him know everything that has happened. We worked hard on planning and writing our letters and are now eagerly waiting for a reply.
In maths we have been comparing objects and numbers using the signs <, >, = and the vocabulary 'greater than', 'less than' and 'equal to'.
We are now confident at using these maths symbols to compare numbers and have enjoyed watching the snappy alligator video to help remind us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Efzu2slaI
Our class book, over the past couple of weeks, has been the story 'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark' by Jill Tomlinson. We have really enjoyed finding out about Plop, the frightened little barn owl, and making predictions about the ending. Our favourite part of the story was Plop falling off of his branch every time he tried to fly!
In the afternoons, we have learnt about what plants need to grow, planted our own acorns, have written instructions for planting and have spent time planting in the school garden with Mrs Buxton. Next week we will be learning about Harvest.
We've had another exciting week in Doves class. We came into school on Tuesday to find that the mysterious egg had hatched and there was burnt paper and ash all over the classroom floor leading to the outside. We then got a letter from the Minister of Dragons to say that there had been sightings of dragons in our area! We decided that it must have been a dragon's egg and thought we should write letters back to let him know everything that has happened. We worked hard on planning and writing our letters and are now eagerly waiting for a reply.
In maths we have been comparing objects and numbers using the signs <, >, = and the vocabulary 'greater than', 'less than' and 'equal to'.
We are now confident at using these maths symbols to compare numbers and have enjoyed watching the snappy alligator video to help remind us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Efzu2slaI
Our class book, over the past couple of weeks, has been the story 'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark' by Jill Tomlinson. We have really enjoyed finding out about Plop, the frightened little barn owl, and making predictions about the ending. Our favourite part of the story was Plop falling off of his branch every time he tried to fly!
In the afternoons, we have learnt about what plants need to grow, planted our own acorns, have written instructions for planting and have spent time planting in the school garden with Mrs Buxton. Next week we will be learning about Harvest.
18/09/20
We have had an exciting week this week, after our settling in time last week, we have started our new topic- Castles and Knights! We found a mysterious egg in the school grounds on Monday and have spent all week looking after the egg in our classroom; we are very excited to see what will happen. In Discovery this week, we have been designing castles using Numicon and counting the windows in tens and ones, we have written about the story Jack and the Beanstalk using 'because' to explain our ideas and have been retelling the story in our small world station.
In Maths we are practising counting in tens and ones using tens frames, part-whole models and Base 10 to help us and in English we have been retelling the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. During our topic lessons we have looked at features of castles and maps of the UK. We have discussed different types of land and where the best place to build a castle would be and why. We took a tour of the school grounds to look at the different areas that we could build a castle and climbed the climbing frame on the playground to understand why castles were built on top of hills. We were surprised at how much further we could see from higher up.
Doves at home
Have a look through the slideshow below to see what some of your friends from Doves have been getting up to at home during the past few weeks.
