Group 2 – Mrs Osmond and Mrs Marshall
Artwork inspired from the book – The Queen’s Hat by Steve Antony.
Look at our wonderful art work of famous human features found in London. Pupils used art pencils and aquarelles.
Group 2 – Mrs Osmond and Mrs Marshall
Please take a look at the finished knickers made especially for our Queen.
Group 2 – Mrs Osmond and Mrs Marshall
We have been reading the book ‘The Queen’s Hat’ by Steve Antony. This book taught us about many of London’s incredible human features such as Big Ben. Did you know that this amazing landmark is 96 metres tall? We decided to draw Big Ben in different scales. Inside the classroom, we used various media such as pencils and watermark paints. Then outside, after trying to measure 96 metres, we soon realised we didn’t have enough space! Therefore, each child chose a measurement and counted carefully using a metre stick. Now the fun started….. using one of their smaller sketches for help, they drew an ENORMOUS Big Ben using chalk.
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Group 2 – Mrs Osmond and Mrs Marshall
Reading ‘The Queen’s Knickers’ inspired our children to design not only a new pair of knickers but also a new crown for Queen Elizabeth II.
The focus of this task was maths driven – naming and describing 2d shapes and then using them to create repeat patterns for decoration. Once created, pupils then had to describe their beautiful jewelled pattern.
Please take a look ….
Group 2 – Mrs Osmond and Mrs Marshall
What a surprise we got on Monday! Our bubble received an envelope addressed to ‘The Year One Knicker Makers’. When we opened it, we discovered a letter from Dilys – the Queen’s maid who looks after ‘Her Majesty’s’ knickers for every occasion! How amazing! This letter created lots of excitement and we intend to reply!
Have a read of our letter especially written to us ….
Group 2 – Mrs Osmond and Mrs Marshall
This week, our bubble are learning to use their knowledge of counting in groups of ten, then ones to help make bigger numbers quickly.
Pupils are learning to make teen numbers, multiples of ten and numbers that end with one unit. For example….
40, 14 and 41
20, 12 and 21
13, 30 and 31
15, 51 and 50
This is quite tricky and we have used tea cups and teen queens to help us say the number correctly, make the number correctly, read it correctly and write it correctly. We used a place value mat and groups of ten to help us represent and describe the numbers above.
You may like to practise this at home. For example …. can you make thirty? Show me. How many groups of ten have you made? Hoop for a group. Show me thirty with your hands (your child should flash their ten fingers three times) Why? Because 3 x 10 makes 30 or 3 groups of 10 equal 30. Now, can you make 31? Your child should count in multiples of ten to thirty, then add one unit….. 10, 20, 30, 31.
Please take a look….
Group 2 – Mrs Osmond and Mrs Marshall
As part of our daily exercise and fitness regime, check out our moves with ‘Jump Start Jonny’ dancing to Freeze.
Group 2 – Mrs Osmond and Mrs Marshall
In maths this week, our pupils have been focusing on making ‘teen’ numbers using bundles of their own straws and representing them with images such as ten sticks.
Children had to read the teen number in words, make it by touch counting and then write it in numerical form. Most importantly, pupils then had to describe the number made. Mrs O asks lots of questions…. ‘What does that digit mean?’ ‘What is that digit worth?’ ‘How do you know?’ ‘Can you show me?’ We also played spot the mistake to address misconceptions and encourage pupils to reason verbally.
By the end of the week, pupils were great at describing numbers using vocabulary, such as ‘groups of’, ‘ten’, ‘ones or units’.
Group 2 – Mrs Osmond and Mrs Marshall
This week, our bubble have been reading the story book, ‘The Queen’s Knickers’ by Nicholas Allan. This funny fiction book inspired some super description and sentence work. After researching about our Queen, including her hobbies, pupils in our bubble had such fun designing a pair of knickers especially for ‘Her Majesty’. The knickers had to be fit for purpose! Our pupils did us proud again this week. Look at our wonderful work so far …
