Guided Reading

This week we have enjoyed reading The Ugly Duckling.  First, we predicted what might happen in the story and talked about the characters on the front cover of the book.

Then we shared the story together as a class.

Yesterday we worked with our partner to read the book together.  We also answered some comprehension questions about the story.

Can you remember the answers to these questions?

- How many eggs were there at the beginning of the story?
- Why was the sixth egg different?
- What did the other birds call the duckling?
- How did the Ugly Duckling feel?
- What happened to the Ugly Duckling?
- What was his new name?
- How did he feel at the end of the story?  Why?

Wolf!

For the last two weeks, 1.1 have been learning about the story of The Three Little Pigs.  They have been thinking very carefully about the characters, especially the Big Bad Wolf.  On Tuesday they had a big shock!  The Big Bad Wolf came into their classroom and sat in Miss Bowkett's chair.  He was very frightening and, as Aiden said, "he had a deep, scary voice."

The children were all very sensible though and some of them were even brave enough to ask him some questions.

Abid asked him "How are you feeling?"

Maddie asked him "What do you look like?"

Ismah asked him "Why did you blow the houses down?"

And Ammar had a very good question - "What are you doing in our classroom?"

Even though he wasn't very nice, The Big Bad Wolf did answer all of our questions and we were able to gather some interesting information from him.

Now we are going to write a detailed character description and see how many amazing adjectives we can include.

Health Caravan

This morning we were very lucky as we were the first class to go into the Health caravan.

First we learned about different food groups and why they are all important to our bodies.  We talked about some big words - carbohydrates, proteins and dairy.

Then we learned about different parts of our bodies.

We met Harold the Giraffe and helped him out as he was trying to make sure he had a healthy lunchbox.

We all looked after a baby animal for Harold.  We taught the animals about why sleeping is important to our bodies.

We were very sad to say goodbye to Harold!

Maths

Last week in Maths we did a lot of work about numbers.

At the start of the week we practised reading our numbers on a hundred square.  We worked in groups to match the numbers in digits to their name in words.

Later on in the week we had to solve some very tricky number problems.  These included finding more or less than a given number, counting forwards and backwards in different steps and looking at patterns of numbers.  Most importantly, we worked on being able to explain how we solved the problem.

Anti-Bullying Week

We have really enjoyed Ant-Bullying Week.  We have learned a lot about what bullying is and what we should do if we think we are being bullied.  We have also learned about how we should behave towards other people.

Here are some of our thoughts about this week:

"I enjoyed the story with the animals being bullied." Hakim

"I liked sharing our ideas about what bullying is."  Aidan

"I enjoyed making the friendship flowers with Year 3."  Jackson

"I liked making the stop bulling signs."  Amelie

"I enjoyed going to work with Year 3."  Liah

"I learned about respecting myself"  Kenzo

"People might say swear words"  Jaidon

"I liked learning about our world and drawing a picture." Momen

"The flowers with Year 3 were good." Alfie and Anayah

On Thursday we thought about the word 'RESPECT'.  We talked about who and what we should respect.  We had some excellent ideas.

One of the things we discussed was respecting our world and the environment.  We listened to a lovely song called 'What a Wonderful World' by Louis Armstrong and then drew pictures showing some of the lovely things we have around us.

We also enjoyed working with 3.1 on Wednesday to make some Friendship Flowers.  this reminded us to be kind to each other and how it makes us feel when people say nice things to us.