It was brilliant to see the first winners of our Pride of Plover in KS1. We heard about children showing resilience, determination, hard work and above all, respect. It was lovely to hear how the children have made a positive impression on the adults in KS1 with the effort that they have put into their learning. Well done, everyone!
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To summarise our learning of the Great Fire of London, we created our own timeline of events. We talked about Chronological Order and why the events had to be in time order. The children challenged each other and debated the sequence of the events. The looked at the dates on the cards as well as thinking about reasons why, for example “they can’t shout for help and fire if the fire hasn’t started yet.” By the end, we had made an accurate timeline of events. The children were very proud of themselves!
In 1C last week, we became Architects! We learned all about Christopher Wren; was tasked to resign London after the Great Fire. When designing the new streets of London, there were important things for us to consider. The children labelled their plans specifying that the buildings must be made of “brick or stone” and that there must be space between the houses. They could explain why they had made these design choices!
We are starting our unit of art and this will include painting. If possible, could you please send the children in with a spare top that you do not mind getting dirty.
Thank you!
The KS1 Team
On our Wednesday Crew, we have been learning how to sign. We have been recapping all the greetings they have learned. We have even challenged ourselves to “silent check-ins”, completed fully in sign! Here are some videos so you can sign along too!
We have been practising independent in our snack time this week and buttered our own toast. Look how good we are at this skill. Yummy!
We have had lot’s of fun practising our counting skills this week. We have had fun in the water tray with 10 little ducks and the interest tray with 5 little speckled frogs.
This week we have enjoyed caring for our babies. We learnt the nursery rhyme Miss Polly and we cared for and gave the babies a bath to feel better. This led onto a discussion about being hygienic and looking after ourselves. We also explored full and empty concepts in Maths.
In Maths, we got moving with our favourite warm-up, Hollabaloo (click here if you’d like to join in at home!). We then practised comparing numbers by building them, drawing them, and making the correct comparison symbols (<, >, =).
Today in English, 1C have been learning all about tricky words – these are the words we can’t sound out using phonics. We went on a tricky word hunt around the classroom, looking carefully for all the tricky words we could find. The challenge was even harder because there were some words that weren’t tricky words – so we had to decide which ones to collect!
After our hunt, we practiced reading, making, writing, and using our tricky words in sentences. A special shout-out to Edith, who wrote some wonderful sentences – well done, Edith!
