Donaldson Class
Class Teacher: Miss Watts
Teaching Assistants: Ms Vince and Mrs Kempton
This week our winner is Maddison for a working hard and trying to be more independent!Weekly Round Ups
Welcome to Term 3
Week 2
A fun week of learning this week.
We have been using adjectives, verbs and adverbs in our English lessons.
We have been doing some addition in Maths.
In RE, we enjoyed looking at the Happy Human symbol in Humanism and recreated it!
Week 1
Happy New Year!
We were very excited to see some snow this week!
A busy start to the new term:
We have been talking about the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, looked at different versions of the story and been trying to write action sentences.
In Maths, we have continued our shape unit, looking at patterns and properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
In RE, we have started looking at our new topic 'Humanism'.
Term 2
Week 8
The final week has been lots of fun.
We've been busy finishing off our Topics and doing some learning alongside making Christmas cards, watching our Christmas movie and enjoying some Christmassy games!
PE was particularly fun with Christmas music, dancing and team games:
We also enjoyed watching the Mickey and Minnie Christmas movie:
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and I look forward to seeing you all in the New Year!
Week 7
What a Christmassy week!
We have been practising our Nativity and Christingle with Percy Class and enjoyed performing to the KS2 children, grown ups and Eccles Preschool.
We have also managed to finish creating our puppets in DT, write some instructions on how to make them and have started looking at 2D and 3D shapes in maths!
Thank you to everybody who came to watch our Christingle and / or our Nativity - the children did really well and were very pleased to see you there.
Week 6
In English we have started looking at what makes a good set of instructions and been suing questions marks and time adverbs.
In Maths we have been solving addition word problems and comapring numbers.
In RE we have been talking about god's world and some of the good and bad things we have noticed about it.
We enjoyed the Family Trust Christmas Show - 'The Star of Bethlehem' on Thursday!
Week 5
In English we have finished our stories about our Alien finding the North Pole!
We have been estimating on number lines in Maths.
In DT we have started making our Little Red Riding Hood Puppets - we had to do lots of cutting and stapling to join the material together!
We also had lots of fun meeting the reindeer - Dasher and Dancer on Thursday!
Week 4
In English we have been writing our own stories about an alien that crashes onto Earth, trying to add adjectives and emotions.
In Maths we have been partitioning numbers in different ways using part whole models and looking at number lines.
In PSHE we were thinking about what animals we might be like depending on our qualities - are we kind? loud? quiet? fast? slow? etc.
Week 3
In English we have been thinking about what might happen if Beegu came to visit our school and writing a mini recount of her adventures.
In Maths we have been partitioning numbers into tens and ones.
In RE we have been thinking about how people can care for the world and others who may need extra help in the form of donations to Charity - which linked nicely to supporting Diabetes UK by wearing blue today.
Week 2
In English this week we have been looking at the book Beegu, linked to the crash site.
In Maths we have been adding and subtracting using different methods, such as counting on / back, using number lines and counting on our fingers.
In PE we have been looking at a 'Chest Pass' in Netball wiyh Mr Thacker.
Week 1
I was happy to see all the children coming back to school smiling. We have had a busy week!
We have been investigating the alien space crash in our English lessons this week.
In Maths we have been looking at fact families - adding and subtracting the same 3 numbers in different ways.
Eg.
4+6=10
6+4=10
10-4=6
10-6-4
In Science we have enjoyed exploring our new topic all about Everyday Materials.
Week 6
A great end to the term!
In English we have been looking at different stories and completing some reading comprehensions.
In Maths we are looking at doubles and near doubles.
In PE this term we have enjoyed learning some techniques needed for Tag Rugby with Mr Thacker and Mr Rolfe.
I hope you all enjoy the half term break.
Well done to our Vision Award winners Teddy and Isla!
Week 5
In English we have started writing out own versions of the Bob the Bubble Story.
In Maths we have been looking at addition within 10 and 20.
In Science we had lots of fun making our pets:
Well done to our Vision Award Winner Hudson!
Week 4
In English we have contiued to learn the story of Bob the Bubble and use time adverbs to help us sequence our sentences.
We enjoyed this video to help learn about time adverbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seaeluxIsqw
In Maths we have been learning about part whole models and number bonds.
In PSHE we have been talking about different emotions and how we can help people with different feelings.
Well done to our Vision Award winner Violet-Rose!
Week 3
This week we have started to learn a new story called Bob the Bubble in English, we will use it to help make up our own stories.
In Maths we have been comapring numbers using the less than, greater than or equal to symbols.
In Science we have enjoyed investigating which material is the best for soaking up a puppy puddle!
Well done to our Vision Award winner Cece!
Week 2
Another fun week this week!
In English we have been looking at the Room on the Broom story and using adjectives to describe the characters.
In Maths we have been working on one more and one less than numbers.
We enjoyed collecting woodlice and creating habitats in the classroom for them (we even held them!)
In Art we created some amazing natural art work pictures, using objects we found outside to inspire us:
Well done to our Vision Award winner Ezra!
Week 1
What a great start to the new school year!
The children settled back into school really quickly and have been working well together and approaching the work so far with a positive attitude!
In Maths we have been looking at Place Value and representing numbers to 10.
In English we have been looking at adjectives, using the Gruffalo as inspiriation to create and describe our own monsters.
In Science this week we went on a habitat hunt to see what creatures we might find lurking around our school grounds...we found a few different things!
Well done to our Vision Award winner Prinny, and Freya from last week!
Termly Overview
Class Info
Children are given a set of questions to answer in an allocated time and if they get all the corrections correct twice, they move on to the next level.
The children bring their tests home once they have done them, please practise timed similar questions if you have a chance, as the children should be able to recall these number facts speedily and easily.
Most children are on Level 1 at the moement:
