This week we learned all about our environment by answering the question, “How can we help our environment?”  We read the story ‘Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish’ about a man that ruined the earth by building factories everywhere. The children wrote a letter to the man, asking him not to ruin the earth by writing sentences, such as ‘please do not cut down the trees, the animals will die, it will be smelly and dirty’, etc.

During topic time, we looked at photos of beautiful scenery in our country, such as hills, trees, lakes and landscapes then contrasted them with photos of unkempt areas, with litter, factories and pollution. We talked about what we noticed and what we preferred and discussed how we can make our environment better, by picking up litter, using renewable energy We explored recycling different materials into categories and learned that recycling means less waste being left in our world.

In maths, we found the total of two numbers by using manipulatives of our choice, such as 10 frames, counters or numicon. We selected two number number cards then worked out the total, by ‘proving it’ to each other using our chosen method of calculation. We then wrote our number sentences down.

In Monster Phonics this week, we have been practising reading and writing ccvcc words with previously taught digraphs.  We also learned 3 new tricky words: their and our. 

Of course the highights of our week was our transition day in Kingfishers class with Miss Ward and our trip to Twycross Zoo! Please see the photos of our trip on our class page.

Have a lovely weekend!