Music

Listen and Appraise

English

The Last Wolf by Mini Grey

Topic

Beginning a new topic looking at Everyday materials.

English

The Last Wolf by Mini Grey

After finding posters about a wolf in last weeks English lesson. Class 7 hunted inside and outside of school also looking up and down Pleasant Street and Clarence Street for signs of a wolf. The children used their sight, smelling and listening skills to find clues about the wolf. They even asked several staff in school if they had seen the wolf.

Getting to know new friends

Identifying syllables in our names.

Looking at hook resources for our new story

English

Class 7 completed a whole class write to create a poster. Some children then drew images of the doll.

Speech

Giving clues in a game of What’s up.

English

Beginning to explore our new class text ‘Toys in Space’ by Mini Grey.

Maths

Sorting items by different criteria.

English – Toys in Space

Speech activity

Class 7 developing listening skills

Maths

Securing counting skills

Music – Listen and Appraise

Ravel – Bolero

English

Toys in Space by Mini Grey Letter to the Hoctopize

English

Toys in Space – creating a timeline of the class story.

Speech activity

Identifying and discussing mistakes in pictures.

English

Toys in Space

Maths

Ordinal value of numbers and 1-1 counting upto 20

Science

Space topic

Speech activities

Discussing what is happening in a picture and identifying words that rhyme.

English

Creating our own stories in the style of ‘Toys in Space’ by Mini Grey.

maths

using resources to identify number bonds to 10

Space story

Class 7 voted for their story today. A tally chat was used to add the scores up to find out which story was the favourite.

Speech activity

Lots of discussion and explanations about the perfectly timed photographs.

Music – Listen and Appraise

Johnathan Dove

English

Rapunzel – creating a spell

Maths

Bingo within 10

D T

Class hunt for moving parts and creating sliders.

Design Technology

Creating sliders

English

Characteristics of good and bad characters within stories and new vocabulary from Rapunzel.

Maths

Sorting numbers to 20

Speech

Syllables and Kim’s game

maths – estimation

In maths we estimated how many object there were then checked the estimation.

English

Preparing and generating answers during a hot seating activity.

Speech activity

Developing listening skills to follow and instruction.

Speech activities

The children played Kim’s game and Swap places game to reinforce the names of children to help new starters to class 7.

English – Hook lessons

Why is there a den in class 7? Who put the den there? Looks of interesting conversations and ideas. Role play in the den, making paper aeroplanes.

Music – Listen and Appraise

Spring music genre – 60s, 70s rock, rock ‘n’ roll and pink

English

Paper Planes – different ways to comminicate

English

Beginning to read our new class text – Paper Plane by Jim Helmore, recalling the story and recapping of ways the children can keep in touch with each other.

P.E. Gymnastics

moving like animals

Music

Singing and action songs with Mrs. Grindley

maths

1 more than and number problems

P.E

Gymnastics – learning basic gymnastic positions.

Music

Listen and Appraise and a music lesson with Mrs Grindley. Playing the glockenspiel and learning a fun rhyming song about Jenny Jenkins.

English

Thinking of alternative words to ‘sad’ and learning new key vocabulary from the class text ‘Paper Planes.’

Music

Music and Listen and Appraise lessons.

P.E. Gymnastics

Recapping gymnastic poses and beginning to use apparatus.

English

Paper Planes by Jim Helmore

Speech and Language activity

Lots of discussion about pictures and what the children could see.

P.E. Gymnastics

Do we hold our bodies firm with tight muscles or floppy to get the best gymnastic pose?

English

Helping Ben and Mia to write a poem about Paper Planes.

Maths

Learning the days of the week, talking about what happens on each day and sequencing the week.

Speech

recapping on syllables in words to help our speech.

English – hook

Beginning the new class 7 text ‘What the Ladybird Heard.’

Speech activities

Developing our speaking g and listening skills

Music

Listen and Appraise

English

Fabulous English work for our class text ‘What the ladybird heard’ by Julia Donaldson

English

Hook lesson

Maths

missing numbers

Science

Making predictions if items will float or sink then checking predictions.

Music

Listen and Appraise

English

Mr. Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham

Maths

missing and ordering numbers.

Speech activities

link to whole class text Mr. Gumpy’s outing and syllables

English

Preparing questions for Mr. Gumpy then hot seating Mr. Gumpy

English

Learning new vocabulary then putting the words into sentences and writing and colouring get well cards for Mr. Gumpy from our class text Mr. Gumpy’s outing.

Maths

Estimating numbers within 20 and identifying the next number in a sequence.

English

Class 7 completed a comprehension activity on Mr. Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham.

Music

Listen and Appraise

Exploring rhythm with Mrs Grindley

Creating a plan for our mini-celebration

Counting games

Building Boats

Maths

Decade numbers – counting in 10s forwards, backwards and from random numbers

English

Exploring movement vocabulary of the animals from our class text Mr. Gumpy’s Outing and a modelled write of an invitation.

Speech activity

Identifying words that rhyme

Music

Fantastic fielding!

Wobbly words – exploring vocabulary

Self Portraits

Celebrating National Poetry Day