Each day, we pick a card from our 'Mindful talk' pack.  These contain questions on emotions, mindfulness, enquiry and expression. Today we were posed the question "Why do you think it is important to be honest?"  The children had some wonderful thoughts on this and we have written a few above! We also chose the question "What is something nice you can say to yourself everyday?"  The children came up with some wonderful affirmations and we will have these displayed on our board every mornning as they come into school! I am brave I am kind I am loved I am strong I am helpful I am a good friend I love myself I love my friends and teachers I am honest I am resilient I am responsible I am beautiful

 Each week, as a class, we pick 4 names from a basket for show and tell that week.  If a child does not have anything to share, they can carry it over to another week! The children are really enthused by show and tell and love sharing news with their friends.  It boosts confidence in speaking and also in asking questions and finding out more!

 Today in DT, the children were learning to safely cut, peel and grate various fruits and vegetables.  

 This morning, we had a visitor from the Essex Fire/ Police Service education team to speak to us about safety around Halloween and Bonfire Night. They left us the following leaflet with their top tips for you to browse and have asked the children to pass on what they have learnt so that the season runs smoothly. 

 Level 4/5 Phonics:   Level 4/5 Phonics

 

 Yesterday in maths, the children were learning all about part-part whole models (addition.) The children learnt that part + part = whole.  They also learnt some new stem sentences too. For example, 4 is a part, 3 is part, the whole is 7.  

Today in science, the children were predicting whether objects float or sink. The children were using words such as ‘buoyant and submerge’.  

 As requested, here are some examples of where you can access learning games and activities 😁 Useful resources Twinkl - www.twinkl.co.uk You also have access to resources via your school log in to Rhino Readers ICTgames - www.ictgames.com BBC Bitesize - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z3g4d2p Oxford Owl - https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ Topmarks - www.topmarks.co.uk Phonics Play - www.phonicsplay.co.uk

 

 The children were so proud of their ideas and how they were able to work as a class to make a sentence even better by using new vocabulary and adding ideas, that they wanted me to share their ideas from the board this morning! We have been working on using our capital letters and full stops, finger spaces, our sounds for writing and also remembering the spelling of some tricky and common exception words! We have been working so hard and our efforts are really shining through!

 Our Rhino reader texts this week are: and In phonics this week, we have been reading and writing polysyllabic words.  We have been counting the number of syllables and 'chunking' the word to make it easier to spell. Some of us have also been learning the digraph 'ea'.

 Today, the children were continuing to practise their clicking and dragging skills by playing a dot to dot game. 

 This week, we have been learning the sound 'ie' as in 'tie'. We have also learnt ' a y' as in 'pray'

Yesterday in guided reading, the children were reading in pairs.  One person pointed to the words and the other person read the sentence. The children then swapped over on each page.   

 Yesterday in maths, the children played bingo.  This was no ordinary bingo game. Instead of recognising numerals, the children had to recognise numerals as words from zero to ten.  The children loved this!

 Our Rhino Reader texts this week: Level 3:  All sorts of diggers Level 4:  All sorts of shops