Wow! What an amazing week we've had in Caterpillar Class!

We've been trying super hard in English this week working on our fantasy story. We looked at the film 'Finding Nemo' to help us think of the setting, the characters and the adventure for our own story. We then wrote our own story, using a beginning, middle and end, with an adventure in the middle of the story. Miss Smith, Mrs Beck and Miss Carter were very impressed with how well we had worked!

We have also been trying hard in Maths, looking at place value in 2 digit numbers. We used a tens and units sheet to help us add and subtract numbers. We then looked at recognising place in value in different forms, such as number cards and using numicon. 

We have started our new topic this half term, which is the seaside! We discussed what we already know about the seaside and what we would like to find out. 

We also looked at floating and sinking. We tested out lots of differents objects in a tank of water, and discussed why they floated or sunk. We then made our own boats to test out! 

We've worked hard this week in Caterpillar Class!

In English we learnt all about speech marks and how to use them. We watched a video a the beginning of the week, and then at the end of the week, we retold the story of the video using speech marks. 

In Maths, we have been learning all about measurements and capacity. We looked at jugs of water and had to find out how many millilitres each jug had in it. We even looked at their bottles of juice for lunchtimes to see how many millilitres they contained. 

In Topic, we learnt more about the artists Vincent Van Gogh and Monet. We also researched them in our Computing Lesson and found out lots of interesting information. We then painted our own picture of Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'. We were very careful, looking at the different brush strokes he had used. We also looked at Archimboldo's pictures and how he used vegetables to make faces. We then made our own faces using different vegetables. They looked great!

Wow! We've had a super busy week in Caterpillar Class!

On Wednesday, we went on our school trip to Fairhaven Garden Centre! Luckily it didn't rain until we were getting on the coach to come back home. Whilst we were there, we made dens, made clay mini beasts and went on a bug hunt! We had lots of fun and really enjoyed our day!

In Topic, we then wrote about what we had done on our school trip and what our favourite part was!

In English, we have been looking at traditional rhymes. We learnt them and then added actions to perform. 

In Maths we have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes. We then went on a hunt around the classroom and outside to find different shapes. 

In Caterpillar Class this week we have been making our own leaflets full of information about the school. Firstly, we made a map of the outside area, noting down all the important parts to include in our leaflet. We also made a list of all the important things we would need to include in our leaflet. Our leaflets were full of information, labels and colourful pictures.

In Maths, we have been looking at solving worded problems. We have been using multiplication and division to work out the answers to our worded problems. We have tried really hard this week, and Miss Smith, Mrs Beck and Miss Carter were very proud of us this week. 

Wow! What a super week we've had in topic this week!

We have been super busy looking at different artists and looking at their work. We then used watercolours and paints to copy their work. We took our time and looked carefully at the pictures to make sure our paintings were amazing!

We also painted our clay pots. We used lots of different colours to make sure the pots were colourful and stood out! 

Here are some pictures of us in Topic!

Wow! What a super week Caterpillar Class have had!

In English, we wrote our very own seed packets! First we wrote a list of all the information you would need on a seed packet. Then we used that list to write out our very own seed packet. We even wrote how much the seed packet cost and drew a barcode!

In Maths, we have been looking at how to add one and two digit numbers together using number lines and 100 squares. When adding a tens number, we looked at jumping down on a 100 square. 

We even tried adding two two digit numbers together using a 100 square. 

When using a 100 square, we looked at partitioning the numbers. For example, when working out 

40 + 17; we would partition 17 into 10 and 7. We would then add on the 10, then add on the 7.

We've had a super busy week in topic! 

We learnt all about the different climates around the world; we looked at Tropical, Temperate, and Mediterranean. We then looked at different gardens within the different climates and looked at how different they are compared to gardens in England. 

We have still been looking at plants, and we looked at the plants we planted last week. Some of them have started growing very well. 

We looked at our greenhouses as well!

We also made a clay pot, rolling out the clay and placing them on top of each other to make the pot shape. 

Wow! What a super week we've had in Caterpillar Class this week! 

In English we have been using speech bubbles to tell the story of The Enormous Turnip. We used a picture from the story and had to add in the speech bubbles. At the end of the week, we then wrote a traditional fairy tale from memory! We used stories like The Gingerbread Man, Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs.

In Maths, we have been looking at halving and quartering numbers. We then had to solve problems using half and quarters. For example;

There were 24 cows in a field. Half of them moved away, how many are left?

We also used paper, straws and string to find half in centimeters. We had to measure something to a certain amount and then find half and cut it in half exactly.

In Topic, we have been busy looking at different types of plants. We learnt how to use a search engine such as Google to search for pictures of the different flowers we had been learning about. 

We also designed our own garden, either drawing or cutting and sticking pictures. 

We loved working with Miss Smith, planting some seeds and bulbs, and getting really messy hands!!

Caterpillar Class have had a fantastic first week back after the Easter Holidays!

In English, we have been reading the story The Enormous Turnip. We then wrote sentences to match the pictures that were stuck in our book. We had to remember all our punctuation, such as full stops and capital letters!

Then on Thursday we wrote our own version of The Enormous Turnip. We could change the turnip into any fruit or vegetable and we changed all the different characters! We used lots of super heroes and TV characters in our stories!

In Maths, we have been looking at different number patterns. We had to help Odd Bob and Even Steven investigate whether different number patterns had odd or even numbers in them. For example, we counted in 5's to 50 and found out that there are the same number of even numbers as odd numbers in the number pattern. We made very good investigators!

Our new topic is all about plants and growing. We looked at different plants and the parts of a plant. We found it a little tricky remembering all the different names but we had a really good go! 

We also did some observational drawings and made our own garden!