Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK3 FEB 2023

This week in the Nursery we have been making pancakes! The children loved learning about what ingredients are needed for a pancake recipe and the method for making them. The children loved pouring, sifting and mixing the ingredients together to make a yummy pancake batter.

We've had such a busy week here in Reception. You could say we've been as busy as 'The Jolly Postman'!

We have been counting out the correct number of stamps and adding them to our numbered envelopes. Exploring 3D shapes and weighing them as a post office assistant would with the parcels that are waiting for delivery as well as practising our letter sounds as we posted them into the 'sounds' box.

Also, the letters we have been writing got posted when we went on a lovely walk in the local area looking for post boxes. The creativity has been flowing in our Art corner, we have been designing our own stamps and making collage post boxes.

Playtime today was a lot of fun too, the children turned themselves into one big moving dragon!

Achievement Awards!

This week's achievement award goes to all of Reception for such a great week of learning and their enthusiasm towards our new book theme!

In Maths, children have been working on identifying the value of different coins, making specific amounts using those coins as well as finding different ways to make amounts of money combining pounds and pence. In English, we have started a new key text called Mrs Armitage on Wheels, which the children seem to have enjoyed acting out in order to verbally retell the story.

In History, we have been looking at Transport and how that has changed over the past 150 years. Children looked at different primary sources to compare what the Great Northern Railway used to be like last century, what trains were used and why. They also explored other modes of transport people used to commute, like horses and carts, trolleybuses, trams and buses.

Homework

Arithmetic- pages 41, 42 and 46

Grammar, punctuation and spelling- page 5.

Achievement Awards!

This week's awards go to Orla for her brilliant arithmetic skills and Zachariah for asking interesting questions about our History topic of transport.

In Year 3 we have started work on Roald Dahl's 'The Twits.' We have looked at the structures of each trick, we've story mapped some of the tricks and today we enjoyed role playing the tricks, particularly 'the wormy spaghetti' trick. In the coming weeks, we will be creating and writing our own trick.

In Maths we have now finished with measurements, we have been adding and subtracting different measurements making sure we have converted them into the same unit of measurements.

In the afternoons, we have been learning about different places of worship looking at Christianity and Islam. We have compared he religions and looked at their similarities which we have found really interesting.

CGP Pages

Maths - 48 & 49 Perimeter

English - 78 & 79 suffix 'ous' - this weeks spelling focus

Achievement Awards!

Our first achievement award goes to Georgie for her excellent work in Maths subtracting measurements and converting them into the same unit of measurements.

The second award goes to Dotty for her wonderful narrating during the role play of Roald Dahl's wormy spaghetti trick. She performed her work exceptionally well with great expression.

This week in Maths, the children learned about percentages and their fraction and decimal equivalents, such as...

3/10 = 30/100 = 30% = 0.3

87/100 = 0.87 = 87%

6/100 = 0.06 = 6%

In English, the children have loved learning about the characters in Kensuke's Kingdom and are very enthusiastic about the letter writing they'll be doing in a few weeks time.

In Science, we started our learning on Earth and Space. They know that our solar system has eight planets that orbit around the sun, rotating as they do so. They also learned that the moon orbits the Earth.

CGP Books

Maths: pages 44-45 (percentages)

English: pages 80-81 (ance, ancy, ence, ency)

This week's awards go to Xander for being a supportive partner and to Diya for her excellent English work.

In Maths this week, the children have been measuring and comparing length and height using both cm’s and m’s.

In English, they have sequenced instructions for making pancakes and written their own instructions, using time adverbials and commas in lists. Some of us even cooked some pancakes in our Friday cooking session.

The boys also really impressed us by performing a lovely poem (written by Mrs Snell) to say farewell to Mrs Barrett in her goodbye assembly.

This week’s award goes to Jaydon for really trying hard in all areas of his work and impressing us with his maths knowledge.