P2H have been extremely busy this week. We discussed our new topic-Plants and Growth and used a KWL grid to write down everything we knew about this topic. We then thought of questions we could explore to help us find out more.
in Literacy, we read Jack and the Beanstalk and learnt that an adjective describes a noun. We thought of lots of adjectives to describe the giant in the story and played a game in pairs, matching the correct adjective to the correct noun. We wrote about our favourite part of the story.
As it was Science week, we completed a lesson on See and Eat sprouting Vegetables. We discovered the ‘field to fork’ journey of a carrot and Mrs Heare brought in carrots for us to look at closely. We even got a chance to complete an observational drawing of them.

Mrs Lee brought some of us outside to plant violas! 
Carlos from Hip n Happy visited our class to help us to always remember to make good choices. He told us to stop, take 2 deep breaths and make the right choice!

We also got the bee-bots out and used our coding skills to program. 

In Numeracy, we counted 2p’s and were able to use them to make amounts.
To end the week  we had a party to celebrate Bethany’s birthday and winning the Shoe Box Prize for Foundation stage last week on World Book Day.

In Literacy we have been completing comprehension questions on bears, sorting words into alphabetical order and making sure our letters are formed correctly.   We are working hard in Numeracy lessons looking at ways to make 8 and 9 using cubes.  We have really enjoyed learning all about Henri Matisse in Art and made a collage picture in his style with brightly coloured shapes. We also made pop up cards during structured play to say thankyou to Mr Frizzell for coming to our class. During our internet safety lessons we were able look out for scams!

This week we had a visit from Mrs McClelland’s teddies. We found out that Morgan, the biggest teddy is 14 years old, Ted the smallest teddy is 2 years old and Bert, the middle sized teddy is the 45 years old!

Bert and Mrs Heare’s teddy, Donald, got on like a house on fire.

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We had great fun in P2H today when Mr Frizzell popped in with his favourite teddy, Polly the Pig. We were able to ask him lots of interesting questions and  found out that his granny bought it for him in Portadown when he was about our age!  We then wrote about his teddy during Literacy time.

Our new topic this term is Bears and we were able to write down some facts we already knew on our KWL grid.  We then discussed what new information we would like to know bears.  The first two bears we looked at closely were the Panda and the Polar bear.  We wrote about the Panda bear and displayed our work in the corridor for everyone to see.  

We can’t wait to learn more facts about the other six species of bears. Have a look at our work so far, we are so proud of it!