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Smoothing out clay using water. This was the first of our 3D Art lessons.

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Exploring cement and the consistency when liquid is added.

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The children have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book!

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We researched the Royal Guards and explored the role of the Royal Guards.

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The children have thoroughly enjoyed creating dances based on different weather types!

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It has been amazing to see how many facts the children can recall about David Attenborough and Mary Anning!

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In Maths, the children have been focussing on Fractions. They have been looking at how to split shapes and share amounts into halves and quarters.

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What personality traits and qualities did Neil Armstrong need?

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Generating adjectives to describe nouns.

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We made 'Morris the Mankiest Monster' a clean monster! We worked as a class to decide how we could support Morris with his hygiene!

The children came up with some fantastic ideas!

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In Maths, we have been using the rekenreks to consolidate our understanding of numbers.

We have been 'pausing, pointing and pushing' the beads along the rekenreks.

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Stippling and stenciling

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We LOVE sunny playtimes!

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This week, we have been exploring the terms 'heavier' and 'lighter'. We have been using a non-standard unit of measurement to explore the mass of items.

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Making a rainbow wrap. We went to middle school to grate, chop and ribbon a variety of different vegetables. We placed these into a whole meal wrap. 

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We were comparing the length and height of each other.we made a line from tallest to shortest! 

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Can I use concrete apparatus to find 1 more or 1 less than a given number?

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Designing our own Crown Meadow coat of arms

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Designing our own Crown Meadow coat of arms

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Our focus English text. The moral and message is very strong in this story!

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Exploring different methods of joining for construction purposes.

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Can we investigate which material is the most waterproof?

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Can I plan a story? This will enable me to accurately structure sentences.

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Artwork in the style of Piet Mondrian.

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Alternative graphemes can be tricky. We are encouraging the children to sound it out and listen to which sounds right.

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Can I use sentence stems to reason and explain?

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Identifying adjectives and nouns.

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Brushstrokes in a single C shape.

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This week we have been looking at alternative graphemes. It is important for the children to decode the words using the sounds they know and listen to how it sounds. This will enable them to decide which way it should be sounded out.

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Can I paint using Piet Mondrian as our inspiration?

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Can I use nonsense words in a sentence?

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Our key focus this week is poetry. We have been focussing on the 3 different types of poetry - nursery rhymes, riddles and nonsense poems.

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Can I practically represent numbers from 11-20?

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Can I accurately use capital letters?

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We have been writing instructions. We have recognised that instructions need a title, what we need and numbered steps.

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Can I identify numbers 11 to 20?

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We have been solving word problems systematically.

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We have been exploring what different animals eat. Are they a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?

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Storm Whale - what might Noi be thinking when he sees the whale set free?

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Spotting the digraphs and trigraphs when reading is really important!

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The children had a very informative session with Sandra from HSBC today. It was about spending money, saving and budgeting!

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Weaving different strips of papers

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Using adjectives and and to up level our sentences.

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We have been generating adjectives to describe the seasons. These will be used in our setting descriptions.

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What types of animals are there? The children have learnt new facts about the different animal types. They have sorted the similarities and differences.

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Can I recognise and name 3D shapes?

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The children have been verbalising sentences whilst ensuring they are using their phonics to decode and accurately spell words.

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Can we subtract by crossing out?

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What are the 7 continents? Where are they?

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The children love exploring our decidable books!

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Our text this week!

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WALT: infer from an image

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WALT: collage
We have created a neutral background ready to make marks using a variety of mediums.

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WALT: make marks

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WALT: generate fact families

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WALT: subtract

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All of Year 1 have received a bible from the churches in Alvechurch and Rowney Green. Thank you!