We have had a lovely week this week! We have taken part in lots of science activities as part of British Science Week, so look below to find out what fun learning we have done this week!

Maths

In our Maths learning, we have been learning about how to subtract from numbers up to 20. We have remembered that subtracting is when we go backwards from a number. We started the week by learning that we can use number bonds to 10 to help us subtract from numbers to 20. For example;

8 - 2 = 6 so  18 - 2 = 16.

We learned that we can subtract by using the crossing out method, a number line or a ten frame for subtractions where we go past the 10 for example when it is 12 - 5. Here are a few examples below to see if you can practise subtracting, either by using your number bonds to 10 to help you, or using the crossing out method. 

English

In our English learning, the children wrote the ending of the Jack and the Beanstalk, using adjectives with the suffix -est to make their work even better. Then on Thursday we planned our own stories that follow the pattern of Jack and the Beanstalk. We will be writing these up next week. 

Science (British Science Week)

This week, as part of British Science Week, we have been doing lots of fun activities to get the children curious and engaged about science.

On Monday, the children investigated how birds make nests. The children pretended to be birds by holding tweezers, and we went out into the Forest School to retrieve items that we thought would be suitable for a nest. We then tested them by putting actual eggs on top of the nests, and we sprinkled them with water to see if the nests would not crumble from the water. 

On Wednesday, the children had a 'carousel afternoon' where they did a science experiment with me investigating how to make dirty water clean. The children filtered dirty soiled water using plastic bottles, cotton wool, sand and pebbles so only the liquid was filtered out. The water that came out, although was not fully clean, showed the children how we can remove the impurities. They then spent some time with Mrs Riley investigating how to make helicopter paper twirlers.

Finally on Thursday, the children investigated whether if you are older, then you are taller. We learned that there is a Greenland Shark that is 400 years old, and scientists have worked that old by its size and by the rings in their eyes. We did our own investigations in class. We created our own ruler using cubes to measure the children against. We then got the children in birthday month older to measure against their self-created rulers and we plotted the results on a grid. We found out that actually it doesn't matter what month you are born, you may still me the tallest or the smallest!

Here are some photos below!

Phonics

In our Phonics, we have been recapping sounds that have been previously taught. The children recapped the double consonants ff, ll, ss, zz. We also recapped the tch trigraph.

Dictation Sentences to practise;

• Watch the bee buzz.
• Will you go to the pitch?
• In the kitchen you may see a puff of smoke.
• The snake hissed!

Have a lovely weekend! I look forward to seeing many of you at Parents' Evenings next week.

Many thanks,

Mr Armishaw