In English today Year 1 had our 'Hook' lesson for our new unit. We became detectives and investigated a strange photograph that had been taken of our playground. We came up with ideas of what we thought it was, what could have happened and who it might have belonged to. We all really enjoyed this activity and have lots of inspiration for our Journey tale unit.
This week in Maths Year 1 have continued to explore shape by working individually, in pairs and as part of a small group to focus on recognising, composing, decomposing and manipulating 2D and 3D shapes.
They have:
described and identified 2D and 3D shapes.
related 3D shapes to everyday items.
composed a single 2D shape using smaller shapes.
composed tangram pictures.
2CP took their maths learning outside for a portion of the lesson. We looked at how simple number facts can help us to answer more complicated number questions. For example, if I know 4 + 2 = 6 then 14 + 2 = 16 and 24 + 2 = 26 etc.
In Geography Year 2 looked at globes, maps and atlases to identify where the equator and the continents are located. We also discussed altogether what a continent and rainforest is. All the children could explain that a continent is a large mass of land and a rainforest is a warm, dense and wet forest close to the equator.
