Outdoor Numeracy in the Sunshine!

Great Bear class just love being able to go outside to learn at the drop of a hat! This week we were looking at Number in Numeracy, this area of learning is all about, reading, writing, counting, ordering and reasoning about numbers, their value and size.

We went of a hunt for jigsaw pieces, the children worked with their learning partners to find a number jigsaw made up from a digit, word, picture and numacon shape. We then discussed our learning, we all agreed that we were very good at matching digit and word but need to work on our counting as pictures were miscounted so was the numacon. We decided these are areas for us to work on!

Here we are hunting in the sun and with our finished jigsaws.

Princess Testing Machines!

During our Hans Christian Anderson topic we have used the story "The Princess and the Pea" to stimulate creative ideas in Literacy a lot. We have designed and labelled princess testing machines, wrote instructions on how to use the machine and designed persuasive adverts to sell our machines.

Great Bear worked very hard and had lots of fantastic creative ideas and worked so very hard in Literacy, producing excellent quality work that makes me very proud of Great Bear and their super work!

To finish our topic, the children chose small groups to work in and created their own models of princess testing machines. All the children collaborated brilliantly together, sharing ideas, compromising and having lots of fun. Each group explained how their machine works with everyone talking and answering our questions in each group, which is great as we do have some quiet people in Great Bear sometimes! It was a lovely way to finish our topic and term.

Easter Bonnets!

There was an amazing array of Easter Bonnets on our lasy day of Spring term. Here they are, with photos of us braving the wind to display them to the school on the play ground.

Thank you for all your hard work, Great Bear looked brilliant!

Materials Monster

During this term we have spent a lot of time exploring what materials things are made out of and how to describe them. We created material monsters out of different materials and wrote labels about their properties, trying to use scientific vocabulary such as transparent and opaque.

Here are our monsters!