Goodbye snow...?

English

Over the past few weeks, we have been studying the book- The Little Polar Bear by Hans de Beer. We have loved getting to know the different characters and learning about their habitats. We finished our book with letter writing. Lars is a Little Polar Bear on a survival trip with his Dad when they get separated. Lars finds himself on a tropical island and luckily makes some friends who help him get home. The children explored and identified the key features of a letter from a letter sent to Lars from his mother. Using their own knowledge and understanding of letters, then children then wrote their own letters in response.  They are AMAZING and I am very proud of the children! Please find these displayed in our clock room.

Phonics

We have been recapping a lot of our sounds and looking at ‘wh’ as questions starters.

Maths

Great work on fractions by all! We have explored fractions of numbers and shapes. We got very hungry looking at fractions of pizza.

What’s the time??

We have been developing our understanding of time with lots of creative activities as well as written recordings. We have concentrated so far on o’clock, half past and quarter to/past. Good understanding shown by all so far and we have had lots of fun. I hope to look at 5 minute intervals of time too soon so please, if you can, question children about the time at home.

Topic

We will now be moving away from ‘The Frozen Planet’ as our class topic to, we have all learnt a lot about the world around us; The Arctic, Antarctica, Russia and other countries in the world.

This week we have been identifying the continents and oceans and looking closely at maps and our location in Onegino and Moscow. We went on a walk of Onegino and looked at the different buildings around us. We noticed that it is much quieter and greener then than the city. J

 We will be completing aerial maps of Onegino and comparing our location here to Moscow.

Other activities-

Planting sunflower seeds, they are starting to grow quite tall!

Our (fingers crossed) last fall of snow.

Homework

Spellings have been sent out as well as some time worksheets. I would like the children to identify what they do in a day. I want the children to gain a further understanding of time by relating it to themselves and the activities and tasks they complete daily. Please choose a weekday or weekend to explore what they might do and the time.