Our Chocolate Wow Day to launch our new topic was a big success. We began the day by watching a video about where chocolate comes from and how it is made. Throughout the day, the children accessed various activities including making their own chocolate lolly, estimating how many M&Ms were in a jar and designing our own chocolate bars. We ended the day by sampling some different types of chocolate. Caterpillars liked the caramel one best, however Ladybirds preferred the white chocolate!
In Maths, we have been practising sorting and counting objects and writing labels to show how many there are. We also looked at how to represent number using Numicon and made number lines to 10, We also learnt how to make teen numbers, remembering that the 1 always goes first and that the 1 is worth ten!
In English, we have introduced our Power of Reading book, Grendel, a Cautionary Tale of Chocolate. We thought about some initial questions such as, "who is he?" "what does he like doing" and some children also used adjectives to describe him.
In Continuous Provision, the children have enjoyed using the chocolate Play-Doh in our new chocolate factory role play area and also the mud kitchen has been open for the first time.
Notices
We have started to send home Reading Rhino and Maths Monkey. These will come home every Friday with one child in each class. When it is your child's turn, please do a maths activity (counting, shape hunting etc) or read a book. You could record this with a photo, a bit of writing or a drawing in the book provided. These need to be returned to school on the following Monday.
Next Friday, Home Learning books will be sent home. There will be a Home Learning sheet with a number of activities and instructions on how to complete. These are intended to be fun activities for you to do with your children.
Have a lovely weekend,
From the Year 1 Team
