We've had a great first week back in Caterpillar class and have worked really hard. 

In English, we have been looking at the story Cinderella. We learnt about the characters, and wrote a diary entry from Cinderella's or the Prince's point of view. 

In Maths, we learn about place value. We had to decide whether it was tens or a units number, and how many tens were in the number we picked up. We found it tricky at first, but worked hard and could do it straight away by the end of the week!

We've been busy in Topic learning all about Castles! We looked at what a castle is, who lived they and how they lived. It was very interesting learning all about the dungeons, the battlements, and the moat! 

We even started building our own castle!

We also won Attendance Ted this week, so well done to the children in Caterpillar Class who have been here everyday!!

Wow! Caterpillar Class have had a very busy week! 

In English we have been looking at traditional Christmas poetry and acting them out.

In Maths we have been looking at hundred squares, trying to find the numbers as quick as possible, and learning 10 more!

On Monday, we had our Caterpillar Class Assembly. We sang Merry Christmas Everyone and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. We were super!!

Caterpillar Class would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!! 

We've had a lovely week in Caterpillar Class this week. 

In English, we have been writing a letter to say Thank You. We had to remember to make sure our letter made sense and that it looked neat! 

We also looked at different emotions, and thought about what makes us feel sad, happy, angry, excited ect. We had lots of fun acting out the different emotions!

In Maths we have been looking at halving and doubling numbers. We played games and used cubes to help us remember. 

The whole school watched the Cinderella Pantomine on Wednesday afternoon as a special treat! It was really good and very funny!

In Topic, we talked about why we send Christmas cards. There were lots of different thoughts, and we were very good at taking it in turns and listening to one another.

We read the story 'A Little Bit of Winter' this week in English. After reading the story, we talked about the hedgehog and rabbits friendship and why the rabbit was upset. In Philosophy, we talked about what it meant to be a good friend and gave each other compliments. 

In Maths, we have been looking at money. We had to decide which coins were best to use to make different amounts. We then went shopping and had to add different items together! We worked really hard at this!

 

In Computing, we looked up information about snow. We read the information and then played quizzes to see how much we could remember!

In Topic, we looked at the difference between Australia and United Kingdom at Christmas Time. We looked at the food they ate and how they made sandmen instead of snowmen! (The sandmen looked very strange!)

This week in English, we have been looking at non-fiction books. We looked at the contents page, the index page and the glossary. 

We also learnt what a contraction was! We learnt that it is much easier and much better to write 'I'm' instead of 'I am' and other words like this. For example, writing 'it's' instead of 'it is', 'didn't' instead of 'did not' and so on. 

In Maths, we have been learning how to multiply two numbers. We used arrays to help us.

In Topic this week, we have been looking at snow. Miss Smith got us some fake snow to have look at!

We also looked at which materials would be good to make a house out of, to keep the animals warm and protected in Winter. Miss Smith brought her hairdryer in to test the houses against strong winds!

We laughed a lot when poor Squirrel got blown out of his house and across the room!

We have been looking at Elmer this week in English. After reading the story, we completed a story board and then wrote out the story ourselves in our English books!! We enjoyed reading about Elmer playing tricks on his friends!

We've been super hard workers in Maths this week! We have been learning about halves and quarters. At the beginning of the week, we had to work out which numbers we could half and quarter and which numbers we couldn't. We then wrote number sentences showing which numbers could be halved or quartered and the answer.

This is us investigating!! 

We've been looking at liquids and solids in Topic this week. We looked at how we make ice, so we put some squash in some cups and put it in the freezer. It didn't take long to freeze!

We also looked at ice on the carpet. We put different materials onto the ice to see how quick the ice would melt! 

The ice was really really cold!!! 

We also had a treat on Friday morning, we had a visit from the Storyteller! He was very funny!

We have been very busy and producing some super work in Caterpillar Class!!

In English, we have been reading and looking at the story 'Ridiculous'. We then wrote about the story and tried to retell the story. We had to remember our capital letters, full stops and finger spaces!

We have also been looking at silly words in Phonics, making sure we don't make them into real words! You can use Phonics Play at home to practice! Here's the link: http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

In Maths, we have been learning about number bonds. We have been thinking of 2 numbers that make another number, and writing them down in a number sentence.

In Topic, we have been learning about the water cycle. We had a go at making our own water cycle and made our own rain using a cup, shaving foam and blue food coloring! 

We also looked at the story 'Leaf Man' and made our own leaf men! We went outside and collected twigs, leaves and acorns!

We are trying to make rain using the shaving foam and blue food coloring!

Some of the Leaf Men we made!

We enjoyed collecting the leaves for our Leaf Man!!