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Lime Tree Class Blog 2022 - 2024
Weekly Update 15.12.23
Miss Cotterill (e.cotterill) on: Lime Tree Class Blog 2022 - 2024
Hello!
This week really has been all about our Christmas performance 'The Inn-Spectors! The children in KS1 did an amazing job during the dress rehearsal and both shows on Wednesday and Thursday. We definitely have some stars in the making destined for show business!
The children have thoroughly enjoyed everything about this performance so thank you all for coming to see the hard work they have put in to making it a fantastic one.
Next week is our final week of the Autumn term and we have lots of exciting things to come...
- Christmas party on Tuesday (another thank you for all the contributions).
- Trip to the St Johns Church and KS1 sports tournament on Wednesday.
- Christmas jumper day on Friday.
Along with lots of other lovely activities to get us in to the Christmas spirit!
Have a nice weekend.
Miss Cotterill
Weekly Update 08.12.23
Miss Cotterill (e.cotterill) on: Lime Tree Class Blog 2022 - 2024
Hello!
A very busy week with lots of Christmas performance practice going on! We will be doing the first performance next Wednesday 13th at 2:00pm and the second one will take place on Thursday 14th at 9:30am. We are all extremely excited for you to see all the hard work we have put in to making 'The Inn-Spectors' a fabulous performance.
In English, we have continued with our focus story 'The Emperor of Absurdia'. The children have been planning a diary recount as the Emperor. They have been practising using first person and time words to recount the events of his day in order.
In Maths, Year 1 have moved on to numbers to 20. They have been familiarising themselves with the teen numbers (thinking about what they look like and their value). They have also been attempting some problem solving questions. Year 2 have moved on to subtraction. They have been subtracting from a multiple of 10 and also subtracting across a 10 (looking at how partitioning and finding 10 first will help them).
In Science, the children have been sorting materials based on their properties. The children found that many materials could be sorted in to a lot more than just one property!
On Monday morning a little visitor arrived in Lime Tree... Buddy the Elf. Buddy is a Rufford Park Learner elf and he works very hard! The children have been catching him doing all sorts of activities this week.
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Cotterill
Weekly Update 01.12.23
Miss Cotterill (e.cotterill) on: Lime Tree Class Blog 2022 - 2024
Hello!
December is here and we are all very exciting in Lime Tree :)
We have had a very busy week with lots of Christmas performance practice. All the children in Year 1 and Year 2 should now know what their part will be in the performance. Hopefully lots of you will be doing plenty of practise at home too.
In Art we had a go at recreating a Jackson Pollock style painting. Pollock liked to have large canvas on the floor where he would stand over them and splatter paint to create a 'drip painting'. The children loved this and we did get a little messy but the finished piece looks great!
In Science we have continued to focus on different materials and this week we have looked at properties of materials. The children went on a scavenger hunt around the classroom to try and find as many different properties as they could.
In Topic we looked in the life of Wassily Kandinsky. The children were fascinated to learn that he actually attended the same art school in Munich, Germany as Paul Klee (another artist we have looked at). This lesson will feed in to our next Art lesson which will be all about Kandinsky's concentric circles.
In English we have started our new focus text 'The Emperor of Absurdia' which is about a little boy's extraordinary dreams. The children have been writing character descriptions about the Wardrobe Monster.
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Cotterill
Weekly Update 24.11.23
Miss Cotterill (e.cotterill) on: Lime Tree Class Blog 2022 - 2024
Hello!
Another week has flown by as we are nearly at the half way point in Autumn 2.
The children have continued to enjoy our Art this week and learning about famous artists. We have been mixing colours with white, this week, to create 'tints'. The children used these tints to create a 'Paul Klee' inspired picture.
In English we have been describing the setting of the island where the Wild Things live. We have used our senses to imagine the things that we might see, hear, feel and smell. Next week we will be starting our new focus 'fantasy' text!
In Maths Year 1 have been looking at subtraction using the part-whole model and finding the difference. Year 2 have continued to add multiples of 10 to a 2-digit number. We have also started to look at adding pairs of 2-digit numbers where there is no crossing of the tens.
The children in Year 2 should all have taken their lines for the Christmas play home with them today. Their homework is to practise their lines. Your help with this is very much appreciated! Year 1 will be told their parts and will start practising their dances next week.
I look forward to seeing some of you at the Christmas Fayre on Saturday!
Miss Cotterill
Weekly Update 16.11.23
Miss Cotterill (e.cotterill) on: Lime Tree Class Blog 2022 - 2024
Hello!
A slightly shorter week for us this week with Friday being a a training day.
We have had a very busy week with Odd Socks day for anti-bullying on Tuesday and Children in Need non-uniform day on Thursday!
In English we have moved on to retelling the story of 'Where The Wild Things are'. We started by sequencing pictures from the story. Then as a whole class we created a 'Talk for Writing' story map which the children used to help them verbally retell the story. Once the children were secure on the order of events they had a go at rewriting the story. *Retelling Where The Wild Things Are*
In Maths Year 1 have been introduced to the subtraction symbol (-) and have been looking at how a part-whole model can help them solve subtraction number sentences. They have also been looking at fact families and the relationship between 3 numbers to create addition and subtraction number sentences. Year 2 have been adding across 10 by partitioning to find 10 first (or drawing representation). They have also been looking at 100 squares to find 10 more and 10 less than a given number.
In Science we started our new topic which is about everyday materials and their uses. We explored and named a variety of different materials in and outside of the classroom. In Topic we looked in to the life of artist Paul Klee. We looked at where he was born and where he lived. The children used their atlas' to locate Switzerland in Europe. In Art we focused on the work of Mark Rothko. The children explored blending red, yellow and blue paint (the primary colours) together to recreate some of his work. In PE we have been playing OAA games which is all about team work and listening skills.
The preparations for our Christmas Play have begun this week. We have started listening and practising the songs so you may hear a few new songs being sung in your homes. We have a brand new play this year which has never performed in school before! We are all very excited :)
There is only 1 week until our Christmas Fayre... Any donation are greatly appreciated!
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Cotterill
