Dragon Films

This week we have been drawing dragons and writing descriptions of dragons and then using them to make a film about our dragons.

We used a free app called Shadow Puppets and the children picked up the skills very quickly!I have posted them on Facebook but here they are, fingers crossed it works!

Fun With Magnets

This week in Science Great Bear were having lots of fun with magnets!

New Home Learning

Hopefully our new home learning will have made it home to you! Here is some further details of the home learning and how it will work. On Monday we are going to discuss our first class reward as the end of term is only 2 weeks away!

Dear Parents and Carers of Great Bear Class,

Home learning has changed a little; each child will receive a weekly home learning grid that contains a variety of activities to do over the week. The activities are directly related to key Year One skills and the National Curriculum.

The expectation is that one or two activities will be completed each day, with each activity lasting around 10 minutes. Please can you initial and date when you and your child have completed an activity, I will collect the completed grids on a Friday and send home a new one with different activities for the next week. Each week will be slightly different, however they will have a common theme and things such as reading and spelling won’t change.

Great Bear Class will be using Home Learning to “earn” stars; every time an activity is completed it will earn the child and the class as a whole a star. The stars will be used to work towards a whole class reward, and the children will also be able to choose an individual reward too. We will start a new tally at the beginning of each new term.

We are very excited to be starting this and are looking forward to our first reward just before Half Term!

Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to discuss Home Learning.

Thank you for all your support.

Mouse Control

This week we had our second learning session with the laptops, we were looking at mouse control. Moving the cursor, clicking and click and drag, all of this had to be done using an external mouse, this is to help us use the laptops for drawing painting and creating.

Art and Science

This week Great Bear have been painting and describing different objects, thinking about the materials they are made from.

First In the Spotlight of 2018!

Here are our first lovely "Spotlighters". We heard about a favourite book, a birthday fairy and fossils. They all did a brilliant job and we love listening to the talks.

Maths using Numicon

We use Numicon a lot in Great Bear, here you can see us in action using it to help us with addition, each piece represents a number and the pieces fit together to make larger numbers. You can use it for all of the 4 operations in Maths and we love it!

Letters and Home Learning

Hopefully letters about this term and In The Spotlight have come home, I have spares if they haven't!

I have also been thinking about how to do something different with home learning and news about this will be coming home on Friday.

Back In To It!

This week we have jumped straight into learning and working really hard and Great Bear have just taken it all in their stride and got "straight back on the learning horse" after the long and lovely break.

Here are photos from our week, there are lots because there has been so much learning!

Sorting materials in Science, inside and outside!

 Penguin Calculations, each penguin has a target number on its tummy, you need to find that matching calculation and put a peg on it. There were addition and subtraction, sometimes there was more than 1 correct answer.

Using the laptops to draw pictures of dragons, it was quite tricky as for many it was the first time of using a mouse but they did really well.