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Weekly Update 28.4.2022
K Atkinson (k.atkinson) on: Pear Tree Class Blog
Another busy week has come to an end in Pear Class and there have been a lot of exciting things happening in school. This is our last week of our topic 'Yeadon Explorers' before we start our new topic of 'African Adventure' next week.
This half-term the year one pupils are having an additional music lesson every Monday morning with Mr Jennings. This week the children explored different musical instruments and played them in time to different pieces of music.
A lot of the children have been excited about the book fair being in school. We had a chance to browse the books on Tuesday afternoon and many children told me about the book that they ended up buying either before or after school. It was lovely to hear their conversations about different books as well as see them browsing the covers and reading the blurbs to make a choice about what book they would like to buy.
In phonics we recapped some phase 5 sounds that have already been taught, as well as begun to learn some alternative pronunciations of known graphemes (e.g. 'c' in 'city' and 'rice'). I have been very impressed with how quickly the children have picked up these alternative pronunciations and how many words they recognised straight away.
Yesterday, as part of a PSHE workshop, the children had a visit from Harold the giraffe! The focus of the workshop was 'My Wonderful Body' and the children learnt about the different organs in the body and all the different ways to look after their bodies (healthy eating, getting enough sleep, staying hydrated etc.) They had a lot of questions for Harold and found it hilarious when he came out of his travelling trunk!
I hope you all have a lovely bank holiday weekend and let's hope for some warmer weather next week!
Miss Atkinson
Weekly Update 22.04.2022
K Atkinson (k.atkinson) on: Pear Tree Class Blog
We have had a fantastic first week back in Pear Class.
In English the children have learnt about list poems and have each written their own list poem about Yeadon Tarn. The quality of their writing has amazed me and they should all be very proud of themselves.
In maths we have recapped some of our previous learning about number, including one more one less and how to solve subtraction problems. Today we introduced the concept of 'turns' and the children had lots of fun doing half and quarter turns in the playground. We will be continuing with this learning next week.
We also earnt our class reward just before the holidays of going on the trim trail, but due to the poor weather we were unable to do this in the last week of last term. We finally spent some time on the trim trail on Wednesday afternoon and all the children had a great time and showed some good perseverance on the more difficult apparatus.
In our topic work we have also been looking at past and present and have compared our school to the South View Infants and Juinor School that used to be on the site. The children made some good observations, comparing what has changed and what is still the same.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will see you again on Monday!
Miss Atkinson
Weekly Update 1st April 2022
K Atkinson (k.atkinson) on: Pear Tree Class Blog
The final week of Spring Term has come to an end in Pear Class!
In maths this week the children spent some time recapping what an array is and how to make an array. Have a look at our maths work below:
In English the children each made their own Stick Man and then verbally retold the story of 'Stick Man' to a friend, using our class story map.
Our week came to an end with an Easter egg hunt in the hall, where each child got their own Easter egg. The children had so much fun during this event and all enjoyed looking for the right number to match their raffle ticket.
Unfortunately due to staffing issues and the weather, our walk to Yeadon Tarn did not happen this week and instead will take place after the Easter holidays, in either the first or second week back (cross your fingers for better weather!).
Please make sure that you continue to read with your children at least three times a week and complete the screen time challenge.
I hope you all have a fantastic Easter holiday and I will see you again on Tuesday 19th April!
Miss Atkinson, Miss Peacock and Miss Bird