Happy New Year

Our first week back in the New Year was fantastic.

In R.E. we started a new topic entitled journeys. We spoke about journeys that we took alone and with other people. We spoke about good times we had on journeys such as trips to Southend and trips abroad to meet up with family and friends.
We also spoke about modes of transport used to reach our destinations and the fun things we did when we got there.

In numeracy we looked at tens and units. We looked at ways we could add big numbers together e.g. 13 + 24, 14 + 25 etc.
The children found this very difficult be we will be practicing more.

This is the method we used when adding:
Question: 13 + 24 =
Answer:
10 + 20 = 30 (Add tens)
3 + 4 = 7 (Add units)
30 + 7 = 37 (Add answers)

In literacy we worked on rhyming poems with some great results.
We also looked at some strange fish and wrote sentences to describe them.
Below is one of the peoms writted by the children. I have also got them to read it out:

When I Was One
When I was one I had fun,
When I was two I said moo,
When I was three I ate some peas,
When I was four I was poor,
When I was five I was alive,
When I was six I was sick,
When I was seven I went to heaven,
When I was eight I learned to skate,
When I was nine I felt fine,
When I was ten I found a hen.