Class 8

We will be starting the term off with our whole school project ‘The Scarecrow Festival’ before moving onto ‘The Kingdom of Tiny Things’ where we will be studying the incredible work of Samantha Bryan, a local artist famous for her brilliant fairy sculptures.

Here is a link to her web page – Samantha Bryan

This half term, we will be delving into the wonderful season of Winter. We will be looking at the seasonal changes as well as what we associate with Winter and using it to inspire our writing and art work.

Key Stage One… don’t forget to have a go at some creative homework this half term! We can’t wait to see what you get up to!

This half term we will be focusing on a new multi-cultural topic called ‘Incredible India!’ We will be looking at the different traditions and religious festivals that people celebrate in India as well as key facts about famous landmarks and cities there. We will also be trying lots of Indian food and snacks ready to design our own Indian meal. As an end of term treat, we will be doing our own colour dash inspired by the Holi festival of colour.

This half term, we will be exploring the wonderful world of David Attenborough! We will be delving into the story of his life so far and why he is an inspirational person. We will also be looking at the different continents and oceans in the world as well as animal prints and patterns in Art. We will be rounding off our half term with an exciting trip to The Deep to see how marine animals are protected from pollution in captivity.

For our final half term, we will be having our own story festival across the whole school! During the week commencing 19th June, we will be creating our own performance of a traditional tale with dancing, singing, acting and even some puppetry! Then, on Monday 3rd July, we will be hosting our whole school celebration afternoon where we will get the chance to show our story performances to the rest of the school – it’s going to be amazing!

In Class 8, we love to delve into a good story book. We often take inspiration from novels and picture books and use it to improve our writing.

So far we have read…

• The Scarecrow’s Dance
• The King of Tiny Things
• Winter’s Here (Winter poetry)
• The Girl Who Stole An Elephant

In Mrs Caborn’s maths group, we love a challenge! Fridays are our favourite days because we often have a go at tricky mission impossible challenges that test our brains.

So far we have covered…

• Place Value
• Addition and Subtraction of 2-digit numbers
• Shape (2D and 3D)
• Money
• Multiplication and Division
• Measure (length/height, mass, capacity and temperature)

We love to read in Class 8! Our favourite authors are Roald Dahl, Julia Donaldson, David Walliams, Jack Patton and Francesca Simon. 

We learn Phase 6 phonics every day and this helps us to read and spell. Take a look at what we’ve been up to in guided reading, phonics and spelling.

We really enjoy our Science lessons in Class 8! We love thinking about the world and doing our own investigations.

So far we have covered…

• Materials
• Seasonal Change
• Plants
• Living things (animals and humans)

We are always busy in the afternoons being musicians, historians, athletes, geographers, artists and deep thinkers.

I love this one – chose the year group and then chose the spellings that you would like to practise.

Versatile maths game – practice doubles, halves, number bonds and times tables.

Number bonds to 10 – such a useful set of facts to know. We use them for so many parts of our maths. Practice them with this lovely game.

Good number ordering game.

We have been doing lots of work on mental maths strategies in class – have a go by choosing the operation on the train.

A mental maths game. Choose level 1 or 2.

This is the clock that we have been using in class

Some wonderful poems, read aloud – really worth a look.

Learn the order and spelling of days of the week.

Practice your place value here.

Practice time – year ones work on level 1 for now.

In year 1 we start learning about suffixes and in year 2 we learn about their spelling rules. Here is a nice game to start to understand that suffixes only make sense on some words. Build the jigsaws.

This is the 100 square that we use in class a lot. Its so useful for understanding 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, 10 less, multiples of 10 and counting in 2s or 5s.

Struggling with more or less? Here is the Gaitor song to help remember that the alligator’s mouth always opens to the largest number.