BUMBLEBEE CLASS
WK BEG 3/5/16
This week in our class:
Following the interest of the children, we are focusing our
learning on the Stone Age. We will be finding out about
some of the animals that would have lived during that era
and about the tools the people used and what they ate.
In literacy this week the children are researching and
writing facts about prehistoric animals and how people
lived. They are practising sentence skills and using the
correct punctuation needed in a sentence and learning to edit and improve their sentences.
In maths this week the year 1 children will be practising their mental addition and subtraction
skills. They will be using number facts to add and subtract 1-digit numbers to/from 2-digit
numbers. FS2 children will be learning to count in 2’s and 10’s. They will be counting hands, feet,
fingers, toes and all sorts of objects that come in pairs and 10’s. They will be moving on to looking
at odd and even numbers and how to recognise them.
In art this week the children will be using a variety of media to create artwork of the Stone Age
animals they have been finding out about. They will be making caves in our outdoor area and
trying to make their own paintbrushes using sticks and natural resources as Stone Age people
would have done.
We are finding a lot of lost property left in school. Please check in the cloakroom area (inside the
classroom) next to the boys toilet where we hang any clothes and other bits left in school. DO
make sure your child’s clothes are clearly named, particularly as now the weather is getting
warmer they tend to shed jumpers and as you can imagine it is v tricky for us to keep track of 27
identical jumpers/cardigans!
PE will be on Thursday.
Forest school will be on Wednesday as usual so please send in kit.
Mrs Jackson will be teaching on Tuesday and Mrs Daddow on Wednesday-Friday.
Questions to ask:
Start of the week: Which animals lived in the Stone Age time? What does a sentence need?
End of the week: Can you remember any facts about a woolly mammoth? Sabre tooth tiger?
What did the Stone Age people eat?
If your child wants to bring in any facts they have researched online or books they have on Stone
Age living and/or animals then please send them in.
Many thanks
Jenny Jackson and Tamsin Daddow