Autumn 1
Week 8
Congratulations to our latest golden book award winners! You are super stars and we are so proud of you!
Yet another fantastic week in the Anansi class! Once again I have been blown away by the amazing attitude to learning of the Anansi class! They have been enthusiastic and collaborative this week and have produced amazing pieces of work!
In DT, we looked at Harvest festival again and discussed the significance to the Christian religion. We also looked at how some foods are harvested. We then made our own harvest baskets using a weaving technique and filled it with ass much fruit as we could harvest!
In Science we have been looking at animals diets and sorting animals depending on whether they are carnivores, herbivores or omnivores. We opened animal cafes and invited a whole host of animals along. The children were great at working in teams and showed great scientific knowledge!
In maths this week we have started looking at addition and used addition machines to add amounts. I have included a video of how to make your own addition machines. Maybe you could give it a try in the holidays!
Week 7
Congratulations to our latest golden book award winners! You are super stars and we are so proud of you!
This week the Anansi's have been super busy already and it's only Tuesday! I have been so impressed by their amazing attitude to learning.
On Monday we created a pop up piece of art to illustrate how animals use camouflage to blend in. We practiced drawing, cutting, folding and sticking skills to produce amazing pieces of animal art!
To further celebrate the harvest festival we looked at how bread is shaped to represent the harvesting of wheat and made our own amazing bread creations out of plastercine. Thank you to all that donated. We will be continuing to learn more about harvest festival and other festivals over the next few weeks.
We have started a new unit in maths after a brilliant start with understanding number. We will now be looking at addition and subtraction and started the unit by understanding parts of a whole amount. The children used objects to show whole amounts broken into different parts. This episode of numberblocks has a great explanation of parts and wholes and can be found by clicking on the link here
Using an iPad to produce images
Forest School: Maths and Fishing (!)
Week 6:
A short week this week filled with number tracks and number lines, forest schools and iPads. We learnt how to draw Anansi using a free iPad app called Doodlebuddy!
Forest School September 2021
Week 5
Congratulations to our latest golden book award winners! You are super stars and we are so proud of you!
In science this week we have continued our learning about animals and worked collaboratively to sort animals into the correct group. We looked at their features and discussed what characteristics fit to which group. Amazing ideas and teamwork were flowing around the classroom!
In maths, we have been learning to use maths symbols for greater than >, less than < and equal to =
We have compared objects and numbers and used our crocodile arms to eat up the greater amount.
This episode of number blocks is a fantastic revision of greater than and less than. Click here to watch. You could make your own Blockzilla at home!
Week 4
Congratulations to our latest golden book award winners! You are super stars and we are so proud of you!
The Anansi class have been learning about some animals that they might find on safari as part of our topic of Stories from around the world. We learned a song with actions to help us remember some of the animals that we might spot in our role play area.
In Science, we are learning about animals and have started to sort animals into groups. We learned the groups: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects and amphibians and acted out some of their characteristics. We then asked the Storybots to help us remember these characteristics and watched a short video. Feel free to watch again at home!
Week 3
Well done to the first Golden Book award winners! We are so proud of you! Who is it going to be next...
This week we have started our science learning with some lovely investigating of scientific ideas! The Anansi class showed off what they already knew and explored scientific materials, thinking as scientists. They developed some really interesting questions for us to further investigate!
More amazing maths work this week as the Anansi children have been showing off their ordering and counting skills. Check out what they've been up to! We have been super impressed!
Week 2
What an amazing start to year 1 the Anansi class have made! We are so proud of how enthusiastic, kind and cooperative they have been. This week we have had lots of time exploring our new classroom and practicing our imagination, creative and sharing skills as we have played in the role play, sand and creative stations. The children have produced some lovely learning to take home or to display in our classroom.
We have also been learning about our class book, Anansi the Spider, and have been making collaged spiders to display in our classroom. We used excellent cutting and sticking skills to create our own Anansi spiders and even hade a chance to practice our maths skills by counting how many legs we would need. They look fabulous and I can't wait to see them climbing in our classroom.
In maths we have been showing off our amazing counting and sorting skills. We have sorted objects into groups of colour or shape and have discussed other ways that we could sort things. We have been counting objects to 20 and have been using ten frames to help us count systematically. We have remembered the golden rules of counting; always start at one, always count in order and the last number we say is the amount that we have.
