Squirrels Class Weekly Blog – week beginning 05/10/20

This week we have been learning all about Florence Nightingale.  

We sketched pictures of Florence Nightingale (Bailey).

She was called ‘The Lady with the Lamp’ because she held the lamp every night when she was checking on patients in the hospital. She was nurse. (William).

Florence Nightingale was named after Florence, in Italy (Thea).

I found out that Florence Nightingale was a bookworm and she trained at nursing school (Mia).

Florence Nightingale made hospitals a better place, by keeping hospitals tidy and giving them better food (Freddie).

In Maths this week we have been solving addition number sentences, using a number line. We have been drawing our own jumps on a number line and partitioning into tens and ones (Mya). We have also been looking at number patterns using a 100 square and how we bridge into a new ‘10’. For example, 39 – 40.

We are still learning about Traditional Tales and We painted traditional tale characters for a display in the corridor (Isabelle).

Some of us have built lighthouses out of Lego (Archie).In Science we talked about healthy eating and we designed our own plate of food (Elsie).

Squirrels Class Weekly Blog – week beginning 28/9/20

We have had another full, exciting week in Squirrels class!

This week we have been learning all about Lighthouses. “We made lighthouses” (Archie). We all planned and designed our own Lighthouses and used paint and paper to create them. We then learnt about electricity and made a simple circuit using a light bulb, battery, wires and crocodile clips. “We made a circuit to light it up”. (Mia)

In Literacy we have been learning about heroes and villains. We have been comparing different fairytale characters and describing them. We then had a go at writing a character description, using adjectives and noun phrases. “We wrote sentences about different characters” (Ava).

In Maths this week we have been completing different number patterns and securing our number knowledge. Harley Rhys “We have been using big numbers in maths, I even did 1000!”     

Today some of us came to school on our bikes and we started our Bikeability Course. “We practised putting our helmets on. We cycled in and out of cones and practised stopping using the brakes”. (Isabelle)