16th March, 2009

In Numeracy, the year one children have been learning how to create charts, for example pictograms. We have collected information about favourite fruits and favourite colours. Then we have presented the information, and developed an understanding of why people use charts.
The Reception children have been investigating the weight of objects. They have [...]

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2nd March 2009

This week we have developed our understanding of what plants need to grow. We have set up an experiment to find out if a seed can grow into a plant without soil. In literacy we started to write diaries, to record the growth of our class plants. We also labelled parts [...]

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23rd February 2009, what have we been up?

This week we began our exciting learning journey into the world of Changes. In science we discussed what a seed would need so that it could grow into a plant. We each planted our own sunflower seed. Then we linked our science activity to our literacy; we wrote instructions to explain how [...]

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w/c 26th January 2009, what have we been up to?

This week in Literacy, we have done alot of work inspired by the book Handa’s Surprise. There have been activities such as matching games (words to pictures) and the children have been very successful in identifying key letter sounds within the names of their favourite animals and fruit.
In our Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy (PSRN) [...]

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This week (19th January 2009)

In Hedgehog class this week, for our numeracy, we have developed our understanding of halves and quarters using visual cues such as pizza sections!  We also learnt how to separate a number of objects into two (halves) and four (quarters) equal groups.
In literacy, we have worked on our story telling and writing.  We have been using the [...]

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What are we working on?

You’ll be interested to know that for literacy this week we are working on rhyming words, and will be making a “rhyming soup” (with many strange ingredients no doubt!). 
In numeracy we are looking at odd and even numbers, repeating patterns with colour or shape, and extending the work we have already done on 2 dimensional shapes.
We [...]

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Words of the Week for w/c 20.10.08

This weeks words are:
For Little Hedgehogs -   an   and   am   dad
For Big Hedgehogs -   what   with   out   one

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A New School Year with the Hedgehogs!

Welcome everyone to a new school year.  This year we are calling ourselves Hedgehog Class, we are made up of 10 year one children (the big hedgehogs) and 15 reception year children (the little hedgehogs)!
This week, as many of you will know, we have had our Harvest celebration at St Mary’s church.  This took place [...]

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Weekly words 9.6.08

This week’s words are: day, going, come.

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Talk Topic 9.6.08

How many countries are there in our world? What might they be like?

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