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Maths
We've started looking at counting in multiples of 2s, 5s, and 10s. This has come in handy with doubling and halving.
Miss Morris had a nightmare of a half term, she came across all of these problems and challenges that if she had her amazing year one class with her would have been a doddle.
The first being she needed to send a post card and stamps cost 5p, but the post card wanted 20ps worth of stamps!!! We worked out all the possible answers by counting in 5s to get to 20p.
Next she needed to tile the whole bathroom!!! She knew that the wall was 10 tiles tall, and counted how many tiles went along the bottom. But how many tiles would she need to buy? We counted in 10s to find the total number of tiles for each wall.
Then she had to clean out her bedroom, and came across a massive amount of pairs of shoes!!! She knew she had 29 pairs of shoes... but how many shoes is that all together. So we laid out all of our pairs of shoes in a line and counted in 2s to find out the total number of shoes/
This week we're going to have a try at using arrays to multiply to help us solve some more problems.
English
Normally the boys groan when this topic in English comes about. Traditional Tales; princesses, fairies, true love and happily ever after. But not all traditional tales are full of that mushy stuff. Instead we're reading stories such as Hansel and Gretel, The Gingerbread Man and Little Red Riding hood.
To help us learn the story of Hansel and Gretel we had a read of the story, most of the children in the class had a go at reading and blew Miss Morris and Mrs Bakers' socks off with how far our reading has come over the Easter holidays and when we came across a word we were sure of we used our phonics to sound it out, SMASHING!
We then split off into groups and set to practicing acting out the story using finger puppets.
Then came the time to show off our story retelling. Thanks to Ethan's puppet show theater we had a stage to perform on.
We learnt that acting is a hazardous profession so we altered the staging afterwards
In the second part of the Summer term we will go into detail of Rumpelstiltskin. We will be altering the story and making it our own, for starters we will need to change the name of the main character, even Miss Morris needs to use her phonics to sound that one out.
Science
In our Animals Including Humans topic we had tons of fun talking about the parts of the body and had to get in a sing a long of heads shoulders knees and toes as requested by William.
Then we brain stormed all the parts of the body we knew. Then attacked a member of the class with post notes to label his body.
He loved it really :)
(No children were harmed in
the making of this science lesson)
Next we will move onto parts of animal bodies, which will tie in beautifully with our visit from the farm tomorrow!!!!
History
I'm really annoyed with myself that I haven't taken more photos of this subject. We've been having faaaar too much fun to find the ipad. So far we've learnt about:
- The Stone Age - where they made tools out of stone and ate food they found, caught and killed, along with foraging for nuts and fruit. Their clothes we made of animal hides and didn't wear trousers.
We made some cave paintings by drawing around our hands, like they used to spit paint leaving a silhouette of their hand.
- The Iron Age - where they started to melt iron ore rocks to get the metal out to make weapons, tools and jewelry. They started making clothes out of wool from the sheep they raised. They made houses with wattle and daub walls, we loved one of the main ingredients of that.
Then we forged some iron daggers.
- Next we will cover how these ages are relevant to our local area learning about Stonehenge and the origins of St. Albans , a modern city shaped by over 2000 years of human occupation. The town first appeared as Verlamion, a Celtic Iron Age settlement whose name means 'the settlement above the Marsh'.
Certificates
Merit
Elizabeth & Donny-Lee (21.04.17)
William & Ella (28.04.17)
William & Ella (28.04.17)
Neat Presentation
Sophie (21.04.17)
Freddie (28.04.17)
Freddie (28.04.17)
Star Writer
Elizabeth (21.04.17)
Small One (28.04.17)
You saw how well she acted out the story of Hansel and Gretel.
They all looked gorgeous today and gave their best smiles, we had a practice in the classroom before we went in. Hair was still gelled, plaits were still tied and t shirts were tucked in. Most impressive was how well they listened to instructions and pulled the poses asked of them. Freddie, Mehde, Edward and Kenny had a really tricky pose where they had to balance on one leg, I think we got a good action shot there.
