Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK1 FEB 2022

We have been celebrating Chinese New Year in the Nursery this week. We have made lovely colourful lanterns and pictures of tigers as well as tasting some Chinese food. Here, Asiya is experimenting how to use chopsticks to pick up her noodles. Well done, Asiya! You did a great job!

Priya helped to set up the Chinese New Year table setting. She could name all of the items and loved exploring all of the different play foods. Priya was also able to use the chopsticks to pick up her noodles - and she helped to clear away everything afterwards. Well done, Priya!

In Reception this week we have been learning all about Lunar New Year. We have listened to many stories including the story of the Zodiac and have spoken about the different animals in the race. In Maths we have been learning about ordinal numbers and addition to 12. We have made some beautiful hanging lantern decorations and collages. Our role play area has been set up as a Chinese restaurant which we have extremely enjoyed! The children have made the most of this opportunity to write independently and have created menus, cards and written orders for the chef in the kitchen! We have learnt about many of the customs that happen during this special Spring Festival and the importance of some of the food that is eaten. We even chopped our own vegetables to add to noodles which we stir fried and tasted!

Phonics: please practise all sounds in the set 1 sounds book (including special friends sh, th ch, qu, ng, nk) and see where your child has gaps. Please use the CVC words, alien words, short stories and new red words to support your children with their reading every day.

Leo for great behaviour coming back to school.

Daniel for making such a great improvement during time in his mainstream classroom

This week in English we have started to work on a new unit called 'poetree.' We have spent time outside in the pond / woodland area using our senses to help us with our description. We made notes on what we could see, hear and how we felt whilst outside listening to nature around us. We came up with some excellent descriptions that we will be using for our poems next week.

In History, we have continued our unit on transport and have compared how the buses in Barnet used to be in the past to how they are now. We role played the buses in the past, giving over money to a ticket conductor and the ticket conductor giving us a paper ticket for the bus journey. This was really fun and we very much enjoyed learning about transport in the past.

Just a little reminder for children's reading diaries to be signed at least once per week but ideally 3 times when you have read with your child. Thank you very much.

This week's achievement awards go to Holly for her amazing ideas in English and Kevin for fantastic participation in Maths. Well done!

In Maths, we have been focusing on word problems. The children have worked hard to complete a range of one-step and two-step problems involving all four operations.

In English, we have been preparing for our big write next week. We have discussed and recorded a range of word classes and descriptive techniques to help us write an informal letter.

Our foundation subject this week was R.E. Our big questions was 'How do Muslims and Christians use their place of worship?' Year 3 have learnt about what is inside a mosque and a church, they have explored all the different reasons why people visit a place of worship and can explain why it is important.

CGP Books

Maths- page 16

English- pages 31-32

This week's awards go to Elijah for using a range of fronted adverbials in his writing and Lewis for his creative ideas in English and descriptive language.

This week in Maths, the children have done fabulously with converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions. They've also been comparing and ordering fractions, such as 14/18, 5/6 and 4/9, by finding the common denominator and comparing the numerators.

In English, they've been preparing for their non-chronological report writing next week by practising writing relative clauses, colon lists and the passive voice. One of their ideas included all three! Norse Gods, who live in Asgard, were worshipped by the Vikings: Odin, Frey, Thor and Loki.

In the afternoons, the children have been historians looking at how the Viking invasions of Britain made the England we live in today. They now know all about the Vikings vs King Alfred of Wessex; Danelaw and a unified England; and how to look at sources to make a conclusion. They've shown a real interest in this topic; their enthusiasm has been infectious.

Reminder: Brain Boosters homework is due in on Monday.

CGP Books

Maths: page 29 (ordering fractions)

English: pages 12 - 13 (pronouns and relative pronouns)

This week's awards go to Kaitlin for challenging herself in Maths with 'spicy' tasks, and to Leo for his excellent coding skills on Scratch - well done, you two!

This week the children were working hard in Maths sorting 2-D shapes and making repeated patterns before exploring lines of symmetry. We used these vertical lines of symmetry to draw the whole shape or picture.

In English, we were learning about paragraphs and exploring note-taking as a skill to summarise a sentence. The boys used bullet points to organise their work.

Arin has also made some great Chinese New Year craft.

This week the award for achievement goes to Mario for working in KF2 and doing his best this week!