Spring Week 3 - Dinosaurs Galore
It has been another busy week. We are working really hard on our reading and have continued to write some super dinosaur writing too. In maths, we have been working on measure and doing some super weighing with our dinosaurs finding heavier and lighter using the balance scales. We have loved making 3D dinosaurs out of clay and wowed everyone with our modelling skills and how unique each one is. We are looking forward to showing you them in our assembly in a few weeks times. Then forest school has provided much excitement as we discovered some 'dinosaur poo'. We knew that since it was 'prehistoric' it was safe for us to experiment with and we used our scientific skills to investigate. We revealed that some of them were carnivores and some herbivores by the contents! So lots of dinosaur fun galore continues.
Spring Week 2 - Dino times really begins..
This week we have really been getting into a super RWInc Red Book reading, continued to work on our maths number work of finding 'one more' and 'one less' as well as recapping our number friends - the numbers that make 5 and become super independent at beginning the day with our morning jobs like handwriting practise and 'Rainbow Challenges'. We enjoyed Ignite coming to visit for our 'Open the Book' assembly and then of course there has been lots of dinosaur learning. Our Dinosaur topic has enabled us to think about the history of dinosaurs, how things were different in the past, what life was like and how it has changed over time. We have used dinosaurs to explore and experiment with Paleoart and John Martin and loved making our own versions. Our dinosaurs also escaped to the forest so we had to order them and find 'one more' and 'one less' to pass the challenge. We had some dinosaurs frozen so had to help rescue them and have enjoyed lots of play to learn challenges throughout the week too.
Spring Week 1 - A snowy start
What a way to begin a new Spring term with so much snow. We spent lots of the day taking our learning outside from shape recapping, snowball counting and sorting and even beginning our new dinosaur topic by looking at prints in the snow. It was was also a great way to work on our independent skills of dressing and undressing with all our outdoor gear as well as enjoying the outdoor season!
We have then continued the week with 'wowing' everyone with all the sounds we can remember, beginning our new Red Read Write Inc Reading Books and writing about our holiday news. We have begun our dinosaur topic finding out what we already know and what we would like to find out about and reading lots of dinosaur stories including our Core Book - Dinosaur Roar by Paul and Henrietta Strickland.
There is going to be so much fun, Alnwick Castle Class - A great way to begin the new term.