Celebrating who we are
We celebrated Easter this half term. Our parents and carers came to help and support us to make our Easter bonnets. We paraded around our school playground to show off our beautiful bonnets. We made Easter crafts, as well as have an Easter egg hunt.
This half term, we have been learning about the name of the different parts of a plant, what plants need to grow and how to plant seeds. We also learnt about Ramadan, how Muslims around the world pray and even tasted dates as it is usually one of the first thing that is eaten when it is time to break your fast.
Our topic this half term was Australia. We located Australia on the map, drew pictures of Australian aboriginal people, created artwork using Australian dot patterns, used dot patterns to make numerals, learnt to dance like aboriginal Australians, as well as reading books about lots of different types of Australian animals.
We have had a big focus on numbers this half term. We have been learning to get super confident at ordering numerals, forming the numerals correctly, adding and taking away using concrete objects, our fingers and on a number line. We used Australian dot patterns to form numerals and matching numerals to dot patters.
Our topic this half term was famous authors, so we decided to turn into authors ourselves. We wrote letters using quills, planned our own stories, wrote the plot and drew illustrations.
We celebrated Chinese New Year, the Year of the dragon. We made dragons and had our own Chinese New Year parade around the playground and the school. Our friend also shared some photos of him and his family celebrating Chinese New Year.
We have had lots of fun exploring the activities that we have had in our classroom. We have been dressing up, building, drawing pictures and making structures out of recycled materials.
We have focused on shape, space and measures this half term. We explored clocks, discussed our daily routines and put them in order, we explored different ways of measuring our bodies and our toys. We used scales to weigh objects. We also continued to practice our subitising skills.
We were learning about the life cycles of frogs and butterflies. We know that frogs and butterflies change as they grow and that baby froglets and caterpillars look different from their parents. We also had a go at drawing their life cycles.
For our transport trip we went to the O2 arena. We used lots of different modes of transport to get there. We used the Overground, the Underground, the DLR and the cable cars. It was such a wonderful experience as we got to explore lots of different modes of transport that we have available in London.
Our topic this half term is transport and for our WOW day we got to explore lots of different types of vehicles. We also looked at photos of ourselves using different modes of transport and shared our experiences with our peers. We even had our own bus to play in, in our role play area.
We have had lots of fun being creative this half term. We made lots of different Christmas crafts, we even decorated our Christmas cards that we made for our family members. We also had lots of great fun at the malleable table, we made blue snow, decorated our Christmas tree and used playdough to make different types of vehicles.
This half term. we have continued to focus on our letter formation, name writing and using our sounds to write CVC words and played lots of letter and sound games. We have also been doing lots of reading and learning to point at each word as we read them.
This term we have continued to focus on numbers but have also explored learning about 2D and 3D shapes and positional language. We have been doing lots of counting, ordering numerals, matching numeral and quantity and exploring how we can make amounts increase and decrease by adding 1 more or taking one away. We have been working on finding different ways of grouping objects and have discovered that the total is always the same even if the groups are split or separated in different ways.
We went to Victoria park to explore how the trees have changed. We talked about the weather and why the colour of the leaves were changing and why the leaves were falling off the trees. We collected some sticks, twigs and leaves to create prints and patterns with.
We have had great fun at forest school, exploring nature and our surroundings. It was great fun climbing the trees in the Hackney marshes.
We have been enjoying exploring our outdoor play area. We have been learning about kind ways to play with our peers, taking turns and sharing our toys. We are really enjoying using our new swing, climbing on the climbing frame and riding the bikes.
In maths this half term, we have been focusing on numbers. We have learning to recite our numerals, ordering them from smallest to biggest, writing the numerals and matching numeral and quantity.
In literacy and phonics we have been learning the names and sounds of the letters of the alphabet. We have been practicing our pencil grip and pencil control, to write our letters and have a go at writing our names.
