January 24th, 2025

Chestnut Class have been working really hard this week.
We have been planning and beginning to write our final non fiction text booklets in literacy all about space, we have found out lots of facts about astronauts and animals that have been to space! This week, year 1 have written a plan and considered all the features they need, including writing a glossary and designing a front cover.

Reception have been doing drawing club looking at the short animation ‘coin operated’, a story about a boy who wishes he could go to the moon.

In Maths, we have come to the end of learning about place value and numbers 1-10, concluding with lots of counting to 20 this week and using a number line and singing 10 green bottles. We will be moving onto addition and subtraction, more or less for both reception and year 1 next week.

During History this week, we found out about a very important lady Bessie Coleman, who was the first African American women to fly a plane in the US in the early 1900s. The children delved into learning all about her story, ordering her life events and then retelling her story.

Miss Brooking helped the children on Thursday afternoon with their Ferris Wheel designs ready to start building next lesson. Reception have built number rockets this week with Abbie and also really enjoyed role play, taking on the role of ‘teachers’ helping and teaching their friends to count to 10. 
 
Have a lovely weekend and stay safe in the storm
Miss Warwick