Class Seven

Maths

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

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.

English

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

Speech activities

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

Maths

missing and ordering numbers.

English

Mr. Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham

Music

Listen and Appraise

Science

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

Maths

missing numbers

English

Hook lesson

English

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

Music

Listen and Appraise

Speech activities

Developing our speaking g and listening skills

English – hook

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

Speech

recapping on syllables in words to help our speech.

Maths

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

English

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

P.E. Gymnastics

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

Speech and Language activity

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

English

Paper Planes by Jim Helmore

P.E. Gymnastics

Recapping gymnastic poses and beginning to use apparatus.

Music

Music and Listen and Appraise lessons.

English

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

Music

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

P.E

Gymnastics – learning basic gymnastic positions.

maths

1 more than and number problems

Music

Singing and action songs with Mrs. Grindley

P.E. Gymnastics

moving like animals

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.

English

Paper Planes – different ways to comminicate

Music – Listen and Appraise

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

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.

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.

Speech activity

Developing listening skills to follow and instruction.

English

Preparing and generating answers during a hot seating activity.

maths – estimation

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

Speech

Syllables and Kim’s game

Maths

Sorting numbers to 20

English

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

Design Technology

Creating sliders

D T

Class hunt for moving parts and creating sliders.

Maths

Bingo within 10

English

Rapunzel – creating a spell

Music – Listen and Appraise

Johnathan Dove

Speech activity

Lots of discussion and explanations about the perfectly timed photographs.

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.

maths

using resources to identify number bonds to 10

English

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

Speech activities

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

Science

Space topic

Maths

Ordinal value of numbers and 1-1 counting upto 20

English

Toys in Space

Speech activity

Identifying and discussing mistakes in pictures.

English

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

English

Toys in Space by Mini Grey Letter to the Hoctopize

Music – Listen and Appraise

Ravel – Bolero

Maths

Securing counting skills

Speech activity

Class 7 developing listening skills

English – Toys in Space

Maths

Sorting items by different criteria.

English

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

Speech

Giving clues in a game of What’s up.

English

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

Looking at hook resources for our new story

Identifying syllables in our names.

Getting to know new friends

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.

Topic

Beginning a new topic looking at Everyday materials.

English

The Last Wolf by Mini Grey

Music

Listen and Appraise

Music

Listen and Appraise

English

Learning and investigating class 7’s new text.

English – hook lesson

Class 7 looked at items that are related to our new text

Christmas matching

Matching clues to images

History

Looking at old toys

History

Old and new toys

Out of the Blue art club

continuing character profiles and settings

Out of the Blue art club

Creating creatures, animals for a story board.

English

The Naughty Bus has been upto mischief

Speech

Asking questions and descriptive vocabulary

Maths

identifying numbers and more than and less than.

Speech Activity

Identifying categories

History

sorting images of old and new toys

English

Naughty Bus

The Naughty Bus

Problem solving

English

What will our new text be? Who will be the main character?

English

Oh no!!! What happened in class 7

English

Making posters for a superhero side kick

What’s in the box?

A questioning & categories activity

Categories

Bingo!

Listen and Appraise

Classical music

English

Learning key vocabulary from the text and analysis an image

English

Looking at hook items from our new story

English

Qualities for a side kick

English

Hot seating Juniper Jupiter

Newsround

The children enjoyed exploring today’s news and then relaying the information they had heard for their parents on Seesaw. Fantastic confidence, listening and following instructions from our newsreaders!

Guess Who?

English

Were class 7 predictions correct? Revealing our new text.

English

Thinking about superhero powers

English

Creating alliterated names for class 7 children

English

Looking at hook items for our new class story

Class 7 Listen and Appraise

classical music

English

’The Lonely Beast’

Geography

’Our City, Liverpool.’

English

Sequencing ‘The lonely Beast’ story

Speech

Adjective work

Hello Lonely Beast!

The children worked in groups to generate questions to ask our special visitor. They explored different question words and what they are used to find out, including How, Why, Where, Who and What? They were delighted to receive a visit from not one, but two Lonely Beasts! They asked questions and listened carefully to the answers.

Hundred square challenge

The children worked in pairs to solve missing number problems on the Hundred Square. They explored how to find 10 more and 10 less and discussed patterns that emerge when finding different times tables.

‘Why?’ and ‘because’ game

The children enjoyed the challenge of answering ‘Why?’ questions about themselves. They worked hard to answer in full sentences, using ‘because’ to explain their ideas.

Water Safety

Thank you to our visitors teaching us the importance of staying safe in and around water. We learnt techniques how to keep ourselves safe and what to do if we see anyone in need of help.

Geography

Looking at differences between a town and the countryside.

Maths

Using 2d shapes to copy and make repeating patterns.

English

Looking at hook items and finding a stranger sleeping in our classroom.

Maths

Class 7 continued to explore and secure their knowledge of 2d shapes

Science

Class 7 classified mini beasts by the body parts.

Speech

Developing our reasoning skills and how to express ourselves

Music

Listen and Appraise learning about Pink

English

Further work on our Hermelin Book in class 7

Minibeasts – bees

The children have enjoyed learning about bees this week. They have expored how bees make honey and where they live. The children enjoyed watching Mrs Grindley’s favourite childhood cartoon, Maya, to help them to explore bees further.

Speaking & Listening

It was fantastic to observe the children leading their own game of ‘Heads Up’ during choosing time this week. They have worked so hard learning different ways of questionning during whole class speech games. It was lovely to see that they can now play this game independently.

National Hedgehog Week

The children learnt how to keep the creatures safe.

Halving bingo

The children enjoyed halving numbers using a variety of methods.

Hermelin the mouse detective

English

First read of our class text ‘Hermelin.’

Listen & Appraise

This week the children listened to ‘Can’t Stop the Music’ by Justin Timberlake.

Halving

The children enjoyed halving the cat treats to share equally between the kittens!

Maths

Giving our friends clues of the mystery 2d shape.

Maths

Learning properties of 2d shapes

English

Class 7 exploring their new text

Rhythm in the way we walk

Exploring rhythm and pulse in Music.

Hermelin

Creating ladybirds

To continue our science work learning about mini beasts class 7 made ladybirds.

Speech

Class 7 had a wonderful speech session thinking ‘What’s in the box?”

English

We recapped on what we could see on Offley Street and looked at the notice board. Class 7 made wonderful predictions.

English

Offley Street. Who lives here? Is it a nice place to live? What can you hear on the video?

English

Class 7 found an old suitcase in our class! What was it for? What are the items in it for?

Tennis

See you

This week we said “well done,” to 5 wonderful friends who are now returning to their home schools. They have all worked very hard to develop their speech and will no longer need to attend Pleasant Street Language Resource. The staff in class 7 are all very proud of your achievements.

Independent learning

Listening and following instructions

Today the children used great listening skills and then followed instructions to learn our new game.

English

Continuing class 7 learning about Joe in ‘The Extraordinary Gardener’

English

Playing speech games to develop our questioning, answering and reasoning skills.

Rhyming words from our text ‘The Extraordinary Gardener.

Icing cakes

Class 7 decorate cakes for our families and friends who came to our Easter gathering

Making chocolate crispy cakes

Class 7 watched the chocolate turn from a solid to a liquid.

Silly sausages speech game

Disguising our voices to trick our friends

Bug under the Rug

speech game

Music

Listen and Appraise

Speech

Developing sentence structure skills.

Maths

using different mathematical skills

English

The Extraordinary Gardener

Music

Listen and Appraise

Curriculum time

During a science lesson class 7 planted beans

The Extraordinary Gardener

Character profile of Joe

The Extraordinary Gardener

What does Joe like to do?

English

Additional hook items

Music – Listen and Appraise

Survivor – The eye of the Tiger.

Music

Learning about and exploring high and low pitch.

English

Exploring hook items from our new story.

Curriculum time

Class 7 explored our playground and garden area to begin our new topic of

Speech

developing observation and speech skills

English

Creating our own story in the style of The Storm Whale.

English

Creating our own version of The Storm Whale.

English

Sequencing pictures and text from The Storm Wahl

Listen and Appraise

Listened to country music.

The Storm Whale role-play

Speech

playing eye spy and hearing rhymes

Measuring adventures

The children enjoyed exploring their classroom to find items measuring approximately 1 metre. Brilliant discussions and predictions were made.

The Storm Whale

What’s in the box?

Measuring fun!

Sharing time

English

The Storm Whale

Speech

recognising sensible and silly sentence

Maths

number bonds to 10

English – Hook

Looking at hook items from our story.

English

Looking at hook items from our new story

Listen and Appraise

Speech

Developing observation skills during a game of Kim’s game.

Speech

Brown Bear

Speech

Clapping number of syllables in our names

Speech – syllables

Listen and Appraise