The children are excited as we have art with Mrs Smith again this half term. They are exploring the patterns on different bugs that live in Kenya and will be choosing an artist’s style they would like to recreate.
In our geography lessons, we are going to be comparing the Fenlands and the Kenyan grasslands. This week we reviewed the continents of the world, located the equator, northern and southern hemispheres as well as locating where the UK and Kenya are.
In English, we have started our new book: ‘Ossiri and the Bala Mengro’. We learnt what it was like to be storytellers by sharing stories orally with children in Reception. Later in the week, we wrote descriptions about the ogre in the story using possessive apostrophes. Please see a video here to learn more about possessive apostrophes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sueh1OKXp78 –
In maths, we have started our unit on multiplication and division. We began by recognising equal groups and repeated addition before introducing the multiplication symbol. Please find the maths sheets here: Maths Sheets Week 1