Sports Day

Here are some pictures of a lovely, sunny day at Sports Day on Friday! We had a fantastic day!

Nursery Sports Day

We had lots of fun in Nursery today for our sports day.  We played a game to warm our bodies up and noticed our heart was beating faster. Then we took part in a number of races including a running race and balancing a beanbag on a bat race. Then we came back to Nursery and completed an obstacle course. 

Harvey "I liked balancing the beanbag the best".
Ava "I liked the running race".
Cohen " It's all about the taking part". 
Amelia " I liked jumping on the obstacle course".

Counting in 5's

This week in Maths we have been consolidating our knowledge of counting in 5's. We started the week creating groups of five, using repeated addition to count up the groups. Once we were confident with this we started using the multiplication sign to show that 3 x 5 means 3 groups of 5. Then we moved onto sharing into 5 groups, using the division sign to show this, e.g. 20 ÷ 5 means 20 shared by 5. 

We worked together in pairs to share amounts by 5. 

Can you have a go at sharing these amounts by 5 at home?

15

30

25

Can you share 26 equally by 5? Let me know your answer!

Harry Maguire Writing

Over this half term we have loved learning about keeping healthy, sport and we loved our trip to the EIS. As part of our 'Ready Steady Go' topic we have been learning about a local footballer , Harry Maguire. We know lots of interesting facts about him! Have you spotted our amazing writing in the windows or on the 'Amazing Work' wall? Have a read! 

Floating and Sinking

This week we have been learning about floating and sinking in our Science lessons. First we looked at what the words floating and sinking mean. We then looked at different objects and the materials they were made out of. Using our previous knowledge we made predictions about which objects we thought would float and which ones we thought would sink. We then tested each one and recorded our results in a table.

Using what we learnt about floating and sinking on Monday, in DT we then designed our own boats. We were given a design brief and we chose the materials we wanted to use. Then we got busy building! Our boats were all very different!

Finally on Wednesday we tested our boats to see which ones floated! We made a tally of our findings to practise counting in 5's, which we've been doing in Maths. We found that all of our boats floated because we used materials like cardboard and plastic.

I wonder what other materials we could have used to make our boats float?