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18 December 2024

Fabric Faces!

We have selected fabric and materials to make a fabric face. First we used our paper face template that we had made previously and used this as a template for the fabric face. We have used fabric, wool, buttons, string, straws and lots more to create our own fabric face.

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16 December 2024

The snowman!

We have watched The Snowman and spoken about what a snowman should not do! In this imaginative story the snowman comes to life and does lots of things such as ride a motorbike, fly through that winter sky and sit by the fire and almost melt! We enjoyed writing about ‘what a snowman should not do’…

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26 November 2024

Number bonds to ten!

We have used a tower of ten cubes to find number bonds to 10. We have broken the tower and counted the two parts. From this, we were able to write the number bond on our whiteboard!

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26 November 2024

Planting Power!

In our continued effort to take care of our School environment, we have been outside again planting some tree saplings. Each class has planted two trees each - Hazel, cherry blossoms and Rowan trees. Seals class have planted two rowan trees today!

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20 November 2024

Owl Babies

We have begun our new class text this week - Owl Babies. We have used Talk for Writing and role play to show our understanding of the book, the characters and their feelings. We can recall key elements of the story in order!

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20 November 2024

Systematic number bonds!

We have used double sided counter to practically find all of the number bonds for a given number. We were then able to write them into a number sentence, working systematically helped us to find all of the possibilities!

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15 November 2024

Children In Need 2024

For Children In Need, we have been busy! We have come to School wearing yellow or something spotty and collected money donations to send to the charity. We have completed a walking challenge - where we did four laps of the running track outside. We have spoken about what charity is and looked into…

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15 November 2024

Number bonds within 10!

We have used part whole models and cubes to practically make number bonds within 10. We have shown different ways to make the same number. Some of us even wrote the addition number sentence for each one! 

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14 November 2024

Story Map

In writing we have created our own story map to support our retell writing. We have broken the story into parts, wrote sentences/ captions for each and then drew images to remind us what happened during each part.

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6 November 2024

Part Whole Model

We have begun to use part whole models. We have used cubes to make the parts and then counted them altogether to write the whole. Some children turned their part whole model on its side or even upside down but still used the part whole model correctly! 

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25 October 2024

Sentence structure

We have used capital letters, finger spaces and full stops to correctly punctuate a sentence based on the speech of our characters. 

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