Class 1

Today we have been learning how to subitise with three objects. This means, rather than counting, we talk about what we can see and how we see it. 

We saw three leaves. "1,1,1" and that is also 3. We saw two feathers and two flowers and that is also four. We saw two yellow leaves and three…

Today we looked at Kandinsky's art work! We started to create our own autumn artwork in the style of Kandinsky! We painted a tree trunk and used autumn colours to paint autumn leaves in a circle shape. We will let you know how the finished piece looks! 

We read the story 'We are going on a leaf hunt' and we role played the story in our outdoor area. We went up a tall mountain, through the forest, over stepping stones and rowed across the river. Then we found a smelly skunk so we ran away as fast as we could! Back over the river and stepping…

We created delicious repeating patterns with food! 

We talked about our repeating food patterns by explaining which foods we used and also the flavours of the food.

"biscuit, cheese, biscuit, cheese."   "Cheesy, sweet, cheesy, sweet."

Everyone was very good at spotting a mistake in their…

This week in maths we developed size language and we learnt how to sort and compare size and capacity. We sorted large food and small food for the Gruffalo and the mouse and decided which container to put each characters food in. All of our decisions were based on our amazing understanding of…

Today in forest school we created beautiful, colourful autumn crowns! We also drank warm hot chocolate and it tasted delicious.

We showed excellent friendship, teamwork, communication and turn taking skills today. We have been flying like eagles in forest school!

We have been learning about the body and our senses! Today we tasted different foods and described how they tasted using a variety of vocabulary such as; cheesy, sweet, sour, minty, menthol, flavoursome and moreish. We talked about the tastes that we really liked and did not like. We learnt more…

This week in maths we have been learning about sorting! We have been sorting buttons, natural items, pom-poms, fruit-anything wecould find! We sorted by colour, buttons with two or four holes,shape, size and type. We explained why items did and did not belong in the groups using vocabulary like…

Today Reception have been working on their writing skill! Everyone has flown like an eagle in their writing today! 

Today we had a go at writing short words about what the body can do e.g sit, hop, run. Here is how we did it. 

First we said the word in a sentence and did the action. "My body…