Week ending 15.5.15

We have had another unusual week this week. This week it was Mrs Sturman's class trip to Pizza Express and the library which they have been looking forward to since Miss Banner's class came back and told them all about it.  Mrs Sturman's topic this week has been 'Pete's a Pizza' and Miss Banner's topic has been 'Knights'.

In Miss Banner's class we have been making Knight's shields and helmets, and we wrote a wanted poster to catch the thieves who stood the chocolate cake from the royal party. We have also been making lists of food we would have at our party and writing party invitations for the royal party in our story.

In maths we have been measuring our feet with different units of measure.  We have used cubes, blocks, cars, snakes and pine cones to name but a few. the children learned how to use a ruler to measure accurately.

In Mrs Sturman's class we have been making pizzas out of playdough and of course, we had a fabulous trip to Pizza Express and The Forum where we made our own pizzas and took out a library book.

We have written a list of ingredients to make our pizzas, we wrote the steps to make a pizza and in maths, we have been extremely clever and have learned halving!  We also recapped doubling too!

Week beginning 4.5.15

Well this week has been a short week as we had a sunny Bank Holiday!

We have continued with our topic of Let's Pretend and carried on with The Tiger Who Came to Tea.

In maths we have looked at addition, subtraction and division, all within the context of a word problem. eg, I had 6 cookies, but then I ate 2 of them.  How many cookies do I have now?

In English, we have been writing lists about what food the tiger likes to eat and with adult support we have written what the tiger would eat if he came to our house.

In PSED we had a story, The Baked Bean Queen, and we talked about being healthy and eating healthy food.

Week ending 1.5.15

We have had another very busy week this week.

On Monday we spent the whole day baking things to sell at our bake sale. We made chocolate muffins, blueberry muffins, jam thumbprint biscuits and cheese pastry shapes. The children really enjoyed helping to raise money for new things for the classroom. We were all overwhelmed by the amount of baking you all did at home too! We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated baking and bought things from the bake sale. We managed to raise £170 which FOGG will match. We will ask the children over the next couple of weeks what they'd like to spend the money on.

The story this week was 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' and we have been investigating what would to the food if the Tiger hadn't eaten it and just left it all out. We made predictions and talked about food decay. The children will observe closely over the next few weeks to see what happens. 

In maths we have been working on dividing equally. The children have been sharing cubes by 2,3 and 4 and have been getting on really well with this.

We have also been working on the wellie boot stomp and making the most of the good weather by learning through play outside. 

Thanks to all who came to our big book share too. 

We hope you have a lovely long weekend!