Welcome to Year 1 and 2!

Your teacher is Miss Littleford

Our Learning this Week

English

This week the children have finished their instruction books about how to take care of a seed. The children have worked hard to write detailed sentences including imperative verbs - bossy verbs which tell us what to do - adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions. They have worked hard on their illustrations, making sure they are bright and colourful to attract the reader's attention. We then spent some time editing our work, ensuring our sentences begin with capital letters and end with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark as appropriate. 

Maths

We have continued to learn about fractions this week, focusing on thirds and finding equivalent fractions. The children have been using amounts of cubes to split numbers in half, quarters and thirds. The children practiced putting numbers into 2, 3 or 4 groups depending on whether they were making halves, quarters or thirds. We then looked at equivalent fractions using cubes to see that 1/2 of a number is the same as 2/4 of a number.

Topic

This week we finished our Geography topic with a very exciting trip to Beale Parke! The children loved seeing the Madagascan animals that they had learnt about, and enjoyed some time sketching the squirrel monkeys. It was a lovely way to bring their learning to life and the children were so excited to share their knowledge during the workshop.