Oliver Jeffers- week beginning 18th September 2023

Date: 24th Sep 2023 @ 11:14am

This week we have launched our new story 'Lonely Beast'. We started the week by looking at a picture from the story with lots of people running away from the Beast. We talked about what was happening in the picture and how the different characters might be feeling and why. We then introduced the front cover where the children learned the title of the story. We talked about how their thoughts might have changed from seeing the initial picture and thinking that the Beast was scary to then learning that he was called 'The Lonely Beast' and what this might mean. After beginning to read the story where we find out that because the Beast is feeling lonely then he decides to go on an adventure to find some friends, we then used our prediction skills to think about where he might go to next. When writing our predictions we focused on using conjunctions to explain why we thought this. We then developed our oral retelling skills by telling the story in our own words to a partner, ensuring that we used time adverbials such as then, next, at last, soon, suddenly. The children then sequenced the different parts of the story before using their writing skills to write out the story in their own words.

In maths our Year 2s continued their work on place value, writing numbers in words and partitioning numbers into their tens and ones. Next week we will be looking at using a number line to estimate where a given number would fit onto it. 

Our Year 1s practiced counting forwards and backwards and had a focus upon 1 more and 1 less.

In Geography we began to think about where in the world we are and talked about our local area, we used Google Earth to look at our school and then talked about where our school is in relation to the United Kingdom.

In Science our Year 2s have been learning all about ‘Humans’ and came up with lots of new and interesting facts. Our Year 1s have been learning the names of body parts through songs and lots of fun practical activities.