Blog Week ending 08/07/22

Another busy week in Pear Class this week!

In our RWI work we continue to progress with our writing confidence and our fluency and expression when reading has improved so much it is a pleasure to hear the children read.

In our maths work this week we have revisited the story Mr Grumpy’s Outing, we have been counting in two’s the characters that Mr Grumpy invites onto his boat and then used our own boats to test out how many marbles we can add before our boat sinks. We then took some away to make it float again and wrote this number story in chalk. Some of us found the boats we had made held a lot more marbles than others which led onto discussion about why we thought this was the case.

In our topic work we have moved on to a different habitat: the jungle. We took a whistle stop tour through the jungle, learning about the different types of animals that lived there. We were introduced to some new  vocabulary as we studied some pictures of these animals and the jungle habitat. We learnt that the jungle is a tropical place which means that it is warm all year round compared to the seaside habitats we have been learning about near us in Alnwick. Because of this hot weather, the jungle is made up of dense forest and vines and we revisited the meaning of camouflage and how the animals were very colourful like the environment where they lived. The children enjoyed researching some facts about their favourite jungle animal and then painted their own representation of this animal. We will continue our jungle adventures next week as we start to think a bit more about what we might need to take on a jungle adventure and how this would be different to a seaside one.

We all had a wonderful day on Wednesday for roll up day. The children came back full of exciting information about their adventure in Year 1. We will continue to prepare the children for this transition over the coming weeks but please don’t hesitate to speak to us if you have any concerns or questions that we can help with.

Have a great weekend,

The Pear Class Team