The highlight of our week this week was ‘Hello Yellow’ day on Thursday. It really brightened up our classrooms and indeed the school to see so much happy yellow around! We enjoyed sharing our thoughts and feelings together, exploring the things that makes us feel happy.
In English we have been focused on sentence structure and making sure sentences make sense. We had collections of words that we read carefully and ordered them to make sentences. We practised writing our own sentences using different pictures as stimuli. We have also been finding out some facts about Cookridge on a treasure hunt around the classroom and reading them to each other.
Year One have begun learning about the place value of the tens and ones. They had begun to identify that in 34 there are 3 tens and 4 ones and that means 30 and 4. They have represented these numbers using Base Ten, Numicon and number counters. In Year Two, one group have been continuing using place value charts to add two-digit numbers, using their carrying skills. The other group have been working on greater than and less than within word problems.
We have been using our Scientific skills in science to be able to identify and classify animals. We looked at a whole range of animals and worked together to identify them all. We then began to look at ways that we could classify them. In our books, we put them into categories or whether they had fur or feathers.
In music, Year One read the book ‘Leaf man’ and then created leaves, sticks and conkers to create rhythmic patterns from the words in the book. Year Two were listening out for long and short sounds in music. They then used scarves and mats to create long and short patterns which they then played on instruments.
In Design technology the children began to make the battlements for their castles. They looked at the up and down design of battlements and began to use their scissor skills to cut them out of card. In food technology the children have been making vegetable soup. They have mainly been practising their chopping skills and understanding the need to keep all the pieces roughly the same size so that they cook evenly.
The children were looking at different creature’s home in art. They focused on spider’s webs and snail shells. They then used chalks to create pictures of webs and shells with intricate designs.
We ended the week with our superb alternative PE. A new group took on their fencing skills, did noodle drumming and some of the Year Two’s loved their adventure out to the skate park again.
Diary Dates:
Monday 13th October 2pm in the hall – Understanding Autism Parent’s workshop
Wednesday 10th December (pm – Time TBC) – Christmas production
Friday 12th December (am – Time TBC) – Grandparent Christmas production event
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Cookridge
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS16 7DH
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