Maple Class are writing our blog today because on Friday it was green day so we couldn't use our computer. On green day, we couldn't use electricity and we thought carefully about how to look after our world.
We have started our work on Roald Dahl. We have a selection of different Roald Dahl stories that we can take home to read to get a bookworm badge. In the class, we are reading Fantastic Mr Fox. In creative writing, we wrote our own stories called 'The Next Adventures of Fantastic Mr Fox'. We designed new characters with alliterative names
Rude Rabbit and he always wears a purple top hat - Beth
Bossy Bunny helped Fantastic Mr Fox by bossing the farmer's dog around so that Mr Fox could get his chickens - Alfie
Curious Cat helped Fantastic Mr Fox by giving him slippers so that the farmers couldn't see his paw prints when he was stealing the chickens - Erin
In Maths, we have been investigating shape. We counted the vertices, faces and edges of 3D shapes. We sorted 2D shapes into Venn diagrams and also looked at finding the line of symmetry.
We are busy rehearsing for our End of Year Play - please keep practising your lines at home.
Remember this Friday is Sports Day! It is going to be a warm week so everybody needs water bottles and sun hats in school.
Monday, 19 June 2017
Friday, 26 May 2017
May Day Celebrations - 26.5.17
Well done to all of the children for their fantastic dancing in our May Day celebrations this morning. Everybody worked as a team and remembered more than one routine. We all came to school dressed in smart clothes. Our May King was William B and our queen was Delilah.
Today in celebration assembly all the children who ran in the Fun Run last weekend proudly wore their medals.
We have been geographers this week. On Tuesday we went on a village walk to identify different types of buildings on Redbourn highstreet. After collecting our data, we made maps of the highstreet and colour coded buildings by using a key. We decided that the highstreet now has lots of shops because Redbourn is growing in population.
Home learning is to keep a record of what you get up to over the holidays as well as learning lines for our Year 2 play if you have a speaking part. Have a safe and enjoyable half term and see you back in school on Tuesday 6th June.
Today in celebration assembly all the children who ran in the Fun Run last weekend proudly wore their medals.
We have been geographers this week. On Tuesday we went on a village walk to identify different types of buildings on Redbourn highstreet. After collecting our data, we made maps of the highstreet and colour coded buildings by using a key. We decided that the highstreet now has lots of shops because Redbourn is growing in population.
Home learning is to keep a record of what you get up to over the holidays as well as learning lines for our Year 2 play if you have a speaking part. Have a safe and enjoyable half term and see you back in school on Tuesday 6th June.
Friday, 19 May 2017
Walk to school week - 19.5.17
Well done to all of the children who have walked to school this week, even in the pouring rain! Unfortunately our village walk was cancelled today due to the weather but we will be rearranging this for a day next week.
Maple Class are still loving Percy the Park Keeper books so this week we used descriptive language to write a character description of Percy. Mrs O worked with small groups of children to create illustrations of the characters using watercolours. We have made a lovely new English display with all of the wonderful work.
We are continuing to practise our dances for May Day celebrations. Please do come and watch us next Friday.
Well done to Lola who is star of the week for taking her learning forward during Learning Through Play. Jamie is spending the weekend with Night for thinking carefully and improving his work.
It's been lovely to hear Erin and Kiki playing the piano during celebration assembly the last two weeks - well done girls! Maple Class were very proud.
It's the fun run on Sunday - let's hope for sunshine!
Maple Class are still loving Percy the Park Keeper books so this week we used descriptive language to write a character description of Percy. Mrs O worked with small groups of children to create illustrations of the characters using watercolours. We have made a lovely new English display with all of the wonderful work.
We are continuing to practise our dances for May Day celebrations. Please do come and watch us next Friday.
Well done to Lola who is star of the week for taking her learning forward during Learning Through Play. Jamie is spending the weekend with Night for thinking carefully and improving his work.
It's been lovely to hear Erin and Kiki playing the piano during celebration assembly the last two weeks - well done girls! Maple Class were very proud.
It's the fun run on Sunday - let's hope for sunshine!
Friday, 12 May 2017
Book Review Week - 12.5.17
This week we have been continuing to read Percy the Park Keeper books from Nick Butterworth's collection. We had a vote and decided that 'After the Storm' was our favourite so far so we wrote a book review based around this story. We thought about our favourite part of the story, who we would recommend it to and also how we might change the story to make it even better.
In Maths, we have been learning how to subtract using an empty number line.
We can't wait for the school disco tonight!
Well done to Nat for getting Star of the Week for being a fantastic friend. Night is spending the weekend with Freddie.
Remember next week is Walk to school week!
In Maths, we have been learning how to subtract using an empty number line.
We can't wait for the school disco tonight!
Well done to Nat for getting Star of the Week for being a fantastic friend. Night is spending the weekend with Freddie.
Remember next week is Walk to school week!
Friday, 5 May 2017
Fractions - 5.5.17
We have been learning to find a fraction of a number this week in Maths. We've applied our division strategies to find halves, quarters and thirds of a number. We've been practising to recall our halves and learnt that we can mentally quarter by halving and halving again.
In English, we wrote letters to Rickmansworth Waterway Trust thanking them for our trip. We hope to get a reply!
We've been perfecting our country dancing this week and can't wait to show you on May Day. This week we started to learn our maypole dance.
Congratulations to Isabelle who has taken Night home and Alice is Star of the Week.
Date for the diary: Next Wednesday is class photos.
In English, we wrote letters to Rickmansworth Waterway Trust thanking them for our trip. We hope to get a reply!
We've been perfecting our country dancing this week and can't wait to show you on May Day. This week we started to learn our maypole dance.
Congratulations to Isabelle who has taken Night home and Alice is Star of the Week.
Date for the diary: Next Wednesday is class photos.
Friday, 28 April 2017
Percy the Park Keeper - 28.4.17
This week we have loved reading Percy the Park Keeper stories. We will be continuing to work with Nick Butterworth's books over the next few weeks in English. Home learning this week is to try and visit your own local park over the bank holiday weekend. We would love some photographs of this to add to our displays.
In Maths, we have had a measures week where we have learnt to measure length, weight and capacity.
Following on from our trip last week, we have been looking at similarities between old and new canal boats. The children agreed that they would much rather live on a new canal boat rather than an old one.
Star of the week is Freddie for applying his writing skills to his work and Matthew is taking Night home for persevering with independent writing. Well done to both of you!
Date for your diary: Rickmansworth Festival is on Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st May if this interests you.
In Maths, we have had a measures week where we have learnt to measure length, weight and capacity.
Following on from our trip last week, we have been looking at similarities between old and new canal boats. The children agreed that they would much rather live on a new canal boat rather than an old one.
Star of the week is Freddie for applying his writing skills to his work and Matthew is taking Night home for persevering with independent writing. Well done to both of you!
Date for your diary: Rickmansworth Festival is on Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st May if this interests you.
Sunday, 23 April 2017
Back to School - 21.4.17
Welcome back! We hope that you have all had a enjoyable and relaxing Easter break.
We've had a very busy first week back. On Wednesday we visited Rickmansworth Waterway Trust to learn about canals as part of our new topic called Out and About.
"We went on an old working canal boat called Roger. The living space was tiny and the toilet was a bowl under the seat!" - Tina
"We went on a boat ride along the canal and had to look for different kinds of birds and trees" - Tommy
"We dressed up as children from the past who worked on the canal boats 200 years ago" - Isabelle
"We opened the locks on the canal and it was really heavy to push" - Theo
"We could only open the lock when the water on both sides were equal level" - Alfie
We wrote a recount of our trip in English the next day. We've also retold the traditional tale of the The Three Little Pigs. We are feeling very proud of our writing
"I remembered to use full stops" - Benjamin
"I used lots of detail and speech marks in my paragraph" - William B
"I separated my writing into paragraphs and I used expanded noun phrases" - Erin
"I used commas in my expanded noun phrases" - Kiki
"I percivered in my writing" - Annie
Well done to Alice who is Star of the Week as she was able to give lots of ways for us to stay healthy during PSHE. Night will be spending the weekend with William B.
We've had a very busy first week back. On Wednesday we visited Rickmansworth Waterway Trust to learn about canals as part of our new topic called Out and About.
"We went on an old working canal boat called Roger. The living space was tiny and the toilet was a bowl under the seat!" - Tina
"We went on a boat ride along the canal and had to look for different kinds of birds and trees" - Tommy
"We dressed up as children from the past who worked on the canal boats 200 years ago" - Isabelle
"We opened the locks on the canal and it was really heavy to push" - Theo
"We could only open the lock when the water on both sides were equal level" - Alfie
We wrote a recount of our trip in English the next day. We've also retold the traditional tale of the The Three Little Pigs. We are feeling very proud of our writing
"I remembered to use full stops" - Benjamin
"I used lots of detail and speech marks in my paragraph" - William B
"I separated my writing into paragraphs and I used expanded noun phrases" - Erin
"I used commas in my expanded noun phrases" - Kiki
"I percivered in my writing" - Annie
Well done to Alice who is Star of the Week as she was able to give lots of ways for us to stay healthy during PSHE. Night will be spending the weekend with William B.
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