This week the Tiddlers did a sound nature walk talking about different sounds we could hear. We collected leaves and painted with them and other natural resources.

We read the Gruffalo together and explored a gruffalo themed tuff spot.

This week in Starfish class…

In English we have started using ‘The three little pigs’ for our drawing club traditional tale. We had some fantastic pictures of wolves! We have also used this as a stimulus for continuous provision thinking about how we can construct sturdy buildings. Our vocabulary to go with the story is - construct, sturdy, flimsy, exhale and celebrate.

The year ones have also begun a setting description unit of writing. We went outside Wednesday afternoon to use our senses to describe Autumn in the playground, while using their sense of touch the children had a great time rooting through Autumn foliage, they then decided to make pictures and even trees with the things they found!

In maths the Reception children have been talking about and sorting objects by size and the Year 1’s have been learning how to use the greater then, less than, and equal to symbols.

Maths - We have started our addition and subtraction to 20 unit. We started by using paper plates and counters to represent wholes and parts.

English - Reading- We have continued our learning around where the wild things are - we have done some performance poetry, each table taking a verse of a poem linked to the story and have continued our retrieval and summary skills throughout.

English - Writing - We have started our setting writing unit. We have looked at an Autumnal picture and thought about what we could see, smell and hear in the picture. We have then used these ideas to write some sentences  - making sure we remember full stops, capital letters and finger spaces.

RE - The children really enjoyed the visit from Neomi - she is a practising Muslim. She told us about her day to day life, demonstrated how she might pray and talked us through her son’s wedding. She also had some wonderful artefacts for the children to handle and ask questions about.

Computing - This week we continued to learn how to use our chromebooks - we are still practising our keyboards and our mouse pads. This week we used a drawing app to help us learn how to use the mouse by double clicking and selecting tools.

Art - Mrs Railston taught some of the children this week to do some careful observational drawings of shells using continuous lines. They drew using handwriting pens and concentrated and worked hard!

This week, Dolphins have been planning and writing a narrative story based on the wordless book, Journey by Aaron Becker. They have explored a variety of adjectives and adverbs to describe the setting and actions of the character.

In maths, they have looked at rounding numbers to 10 and 100.

They have embraced being historians and scientists, thinking critically about the Palaeolithic period and how to group rocks by their properties. This will link in with their art over the next few weeks where they will be turning the class into a stone age cave!

On Monday we were visited by Neomi who is a practising Muslim. She travelled from Exeter to tell us about her faith and show us some artefacts. This links with the Religious Education topic which the children are currently doing where they are learning what it means to be a Muslim in Britain today. Thank you to Mrs Adams for arranging the visit.

We have completed our Place Value unit in maths and will now move onto a short one week unit on Addition and Subtraction.

We have also completed our narrative unit in English. The children have written stories based on the events of Shackleton’s expedition in Antarctica. They have been inspired by the resilience and determination shown by Shackleton and his crew.

Seals class have finished their pieces of writing ready for the parents/carers to look at during our parent consultations at the end of half term. Seals have been working really hard. They will be visiting our friends at Woolacombe on Thursday for a Football and Tag Rugby festival and joining the rest of KS2 in a workshop and show at the Plough Arts Centre at the end of next week.