Counting Money and Working Out Change

Talking about the main ideas in the story

Balancing on the beam

We are learning how to balance on a beam in Gymnastics. We have to carefully climb on the beam and stand up. We have to  put our aeroplanes arms out to help us balance. We then have to walk all the way to the other side. Sometimes we have to turn and go back too. It can be scary sometimes because the beam wobbles when we walk on it. We are all getting better at balancing on the beam!

Using other punctuation

I am learning when to use other punctuation

e.g. comma, exclamation mark, question mark, apostrophe, speech marks

I've got one Star Wars card. His name is BB8. My brother has Leia, Chewbacca, Poe Dameron, Aayla Secura, Padme Amidala and Hoth. 

I am a little bit proud of knowing how to use commas. I need to improve on using other punctuation like a question mark or an exclamation mark.

Adding detail

I am learning to add detail to my writing.

Sally the Whale

One day there was a whale called Sally. Sally had friends. There was Lily and Hannah. They were her friends.

I am getting better at telling Mrs Mason more in my writing. It is easy when it is something I love to write about like the whales.

St John Visit

Mac from St John came to talk to the children at Elm Park School about safety and first Aid. He brought his mini ambulance Amby along with him. Mac taught Room 11 about who to call when there is an emergency. We looked at different pictures and had to decide if we needed to call for the police, the firemen or an ambulance. We had actions that we had to do to show Mac that we knew who to call!

Punctuation Marks

I think it was a little bit hard to match the punctuation marks with the words.

Shape Monster

I am learning to name and describe plane shapes.

We are learning about Geometry in Room 11. We are learning to name plane shapes and to say how many sides and corners the shape has. We created shape monsters and wrote a description about them.

I liked making my shape monster. It was a little bit hard when I had to write about my shape monster. I kept forgetting how many sides and corners it had!

Count on from the largest number

I am learning to count on from the largest number.

I can use the counters on the tens frames. They help me remember the biggest number and then I can count the other counters.

Recognising blends

The Dragonflies are learning to recognise blends as they are reading.

I can find words that start with 'sh', 'gr', 'wh' and 'th'. Some of the words are easy to read and some of them are hard. I have to sound them out and think about the first sound.

Youthtown

Room 11 has been going to Youthtown this term. We have been learning how to throw a ball at a target. We learned that you need to have your one arm in an L shape ready to throw the ball. The other arm needs to be pointing at the target. Then we have to do a power throw and try to hit the target. Sometimes we hit the cones and sometimes the ball goes in a different direction.

Word Clouds

I am learning to use describing words in my writing.

I like describing words. It took me a long time to think about them for Roly-Poly bird. It was fun.

Maths Term One

I am learning to add simple problems up to 10.

I like maths. Adding is easy when I draw the shapes. They help me add it all up. It's fun.

Reading Term One

I am learning to sound out words as I read.

I like reading because you can learn my words. It's tricky sometimes.

Writing Term One

Red Riding went through the woods and she saw a wolf. She screamed and screamed.

I am learning to sound out words in my writing.

Sounding out isn't very hard. Next time I will try to sound out the whole word.

Self-Portraits

I have been learning how to draw my self-portrait. First Mrs Scott came to show us how to sketch our face. We sketched our face shape first. Then we drew our guidelines to help us remember where our eyes, nose, mouth and ears went. We practised using a whispering pencil and a shouting pencil. Our first sketch looked a bit funny so we tried again. This time we used a photo of us to help us. We had to start all over again! Miss Radue then helped us rub out all the whispering pencil guidelines and photocopied our sketches so they were bigger. We had to go around our sketch with vivid and then we used pastel to colour in our self-portraits. It was hard work but we had a lot of fun!

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