Useful links:

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures/money.html#Money

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/index.html  

Money! Money! Money!

It has been a brilliant week! We have been practising our cross-country and have both beaten our times twice!  We have had really nice weather and we played a game with Sam on the playground.  We are learning about different types of sounds, but especially the ar sound in phonics.  Our favourite thing this week has been activity afternoon because we get to do fun things each Friday like baking with Mrs Leggett, puppets with Mrs Pimlott, forest schools with Mrs Nichols, arts and crafts with Mrs Brown and construction with Miss Holmes. In Maths we have been learning about coins and we counted them up to see how much the numbers on them made altogether.  We are really good at money!  We did some tricky work in our workbooks.  We drew toys like the old telephone in Toy Story.  We wrote about what toys look like and we used adjective words like shiny, dirty and old.  In performing arts we played music that was loud.  In French we learned about our family, like brother, sister, mummy, daddy.  Lunch was really yummy this week, my favourite was fish and chips today (Lucas).  We can't wait until next week! 

By Lucas Peacock and Harry Thomas

We will be looking at weights in Maths next week.  It would be wonderful to have children weighing and comparing various objects at home (including their toys!).  

We are also looking at boardgames in our topic lessons and have asked children to bring in their favourite board games to discuss and play.  We have been particularly inspired by Oscar's wonderful mathsy wooden spinning top board game and are hoping to design and make our own games!  Any interesting recyclable objects you may have lying around the house would be incredibly useful for your child to incorporate into their design.  

Dates for your diary:  

Wednesday, 29th January - Open Morning 9.30 -12.00pm

Friday, 31 January - House Cross Country 1.30 - 3.30pm

Cross Country note from Mrs Hood:

All parents are invited to watch our whole school house cross country event next Friday afternoon for reception to Year 6, 1.30pm start on top field (spectators may need warm layers).  Please send all children into school with their full games kit, including warm layers to wear under it, their fleeces and raincoats, and hats and gloves if it is very cold, and of course some trainers to run in.  

Castle Museum Trip

We have had another busy week, working on our number bonds, counting on to add and exploring toys in the past. We have also been looking at books by Shirley Hughes.  

What a wonderful day spent at the Castle!  Such a range of fascinating exhibitions to enjoy and plenty to explore... the Castle Keep and Natural History Galleries being particular favourites.  We also got to have a little Maths session in the souvenir shop where the children bought some wonderful keepsakes and old fashioned toys.  Here is a snippet of the excitement... 

We will be looking at the artist Andy Warhol over the next few weeks, so if you would like to do any research at home we would love to hear all about it.

It's the Spring Term!

Happy New Year!

It is wonderful to hear all the exciting stories about the Christmas holiday; the children are buzzing as usual. 


We begin the spring term with our new topic... TERRIFIC TOYS and activities are well underway.  Children have been asked to bring in a favourite toy for Friday's 'Show & Tell' slot as inspiration for our new theme.


We will be allowing children to bring toys into school for the month of January.  We would also encourage any older toys (perhaps parents' or even grandparents' toys) to be brought in if possible.  Please leave them on the special toy shelf allocated in each classroom.  We will do our best to look after them, but unfortunately accidents do happen, so please don't allow anything too precious or expensive to come into school. 


If you happen to have a book about toys, we would love to read it.  Please make sure it is clearly named.


Coming up next week:
Friday, 17th January 2014 -  Year 1 Castle Museum Trip


Here are a few of the toys we have been exploring...