What a
wonderful day we have had in Southend.
Just look at our photos to see how much fun it was!
This
week in maths we have been learning about time.
On Monday we sequenced events using the following words
before,
after, morning, afternoon, evening; first, next, then. The children told their partner a sentence
using these words. Next they stuck
a picture in their books and then drew a picture showing what could have
happened before and after.
You may like to do a similar activity
at home using the words above.
On Tuesday we put the days of
the week in order and sang the days of the week song. We then asked these questions.
How many days in a week? How do you know? Which days are school days? Which are
the weekend? Which
day comes after Tuesday?
We then put the months of the
year in order and sang the months of the year song. We then asked these questions.
Do you know what month it is? How many months in the year? Which is your
birthday month? Which
month is before May?
You may like to ask similar questions
at home. Can your child make up their own questions?
We then looked at a calendar
for 2019.
We
asked which year does it show? We tried
to crack the calendar code – number for the day, name of the month, number for
the year.
We modelled how to find dates
on a calendar and how we can see which day any date will be on. We asked - which day will Christmas day be
on? How many days in May?
Using the calendar below you may like to
ask similar questions at home. Can your child make up their own questions?
The following day we used clocks
to tell the time. We showed the children when it reads o’clock
the long hand points to the 12. Discuss how smaller hand points to the hour. We also showed the times as digital times –
eg 5:00 = 5 o’clock, 7:00 – 7o’clock etc.
Next we showed the children when it reads half
past the long hand points to the 6 (it
has gone halfway round the clock.)
We divided the clock face into two halves and
talked about how many minutes in an hour – 60. What is half of 60?
How many minutes
in an hour? How many in half an hour?
At home you may like to help your child practise telling
the time – o’clock and half past.
This week in English we continued reading the story ‘Molly Rogers Pirate Gir’l by Cornelia Funke. 
On Monday we pretended
we were Molly and imagined what we would have written on the message in the
bottle. We had to remember the
important information.
·
A title to get the reader interested
· Where are you? · Who has captured you? · What you are doing? · Final plea for help…  |
On Tuesday we planned our stories. We started by sharing our ideas. We thought about
·
the name of the Captain in our story – Captain Blackbeard,
Captain Goldbeard
·
the name of the ship – The Skull and Cross Bones, The Jolly
Roger
·
the name of our Pirate boy or Pirate girl – Thomas, Sam,
·
the name of our rescuer – Brave Bill, Brave Dag,
Then we thought about
·
the jobs our character would have to do – push the barrels of
rum, scrub the decks,
·
the activities that the pirates could do at their party every
night – eat cake all night long, play instruments, do handstands, drink rum
·
the horrible jobs that the Captain and his crew would have to do
as a punishment – clean up the parrot poo, clean the toilets, sharpen the
swords, polish the boots, cook all the meals……
·
any good words we wanted to .include – piractical nincompoops,
Splish, Splash, Splosh, ransom
We then used a ‘boxing up sheet’ to plan our story
drawing pictures of the key moments to remind ourselves of the plot.
We will be writing our stories early next
week.
You may like to talk to your child about their story and
get them to tell you it using story language.
