D’vash class have had a brilliant week! We have been enjoying the sunny weather and talking a lot together about how to keep ourselves safe in the sun; wearing sunscreen, drinking water and keeping our hats on.
We have started our new topic ‘Transport’ and we have learnt the ‘We all go travelling by’ song. We had fun making all of the different transport sounds and each chose a transport picture to write about. In art we created our own cars, by painting toilet paper rolls and sticking them together.
D’vash class also had a very exciting trip in the Gesher school van to visit our new school. The children were all so happy to go out on a trip together and it was amazing to see how much they loved our new playgrounds and visiting all the new rooms. We are all looking forward to September!
As we approach the end of the term, Tamar have been reflecting on the work completed in class. All pupils have demonstrated an increased understanding of the life cycle processes of living things. Our planting project has been a mixed success with some of our plants thriving whilst others have not survived the terrible recent weather!
Luckily our butterflies fared better and were released into the garden last week. There has been real progress in Maths and all pupils have consolidated their learning about measuring angles, area and translation of shapes. We are continuing with our book “Holes” which explores many different themes including racial prejudice and how we resolve conflict as individuals and as a society. These are also themes we have explored in our circle time sessions with Miss Danielle and the class have discussed how we define friendship and what to expect from our friends.
We have looked at examples of times in school when it has been hard to get along with each other and what action we could take to make better choices. Due to the poor weather this term we have been unable to do P.E outside much. Nevertheless, this presented the opportunity to have some friendly games of indoor table tennis and include our friends in Chitah class. It’s been amazing to see the progress pupils are making through hard work and perseverance.
The class are all learning the valuable lesson that it’s ok to make mistakes as long as we try to learn from them and always try our best.
Have a great half term.
In Maths, some of the children have continued working on the different rules for addition and subtraction. At the same time, others have been focusing on their number sequences and matching numbers with their qualities using concrete objects.
In Literacy, the children have focused on living things themed ‘Code Breaking’ by creating visuals for their codes and writing secret words or sentences for the adults in the class to ‘crack’. In addition, part of the class has been looking at the book ‘Mrs Wishy Washy’s farm’ and looking at farm-animal themed lessons. We have had fantastic Science lessons looking at Life Cycles. We have focused on the frog, ladybird, butterfly life cycles, and the children’s choices of the spider and the owl. We are so excited for the live caterpillars to arrive next half term so that we can see the butterfly’s life cycle right in action. I am so proud of all the children for their hard work and perseverance this half term! Well done!!
Have a great half-term break!!
The last two weeks, we have been busy practising our performance of the Minibeast Bop!
We have been learning our lines, making tickets for our performance, practising their dance moves and making minibeast masks and costumes.
We have invited D’Vash and Gefen to watch in the playground on Friday – watch this space for videos and photos!
In Maths, we have been consolidating our skills from the term and have been working on position and direction, patterns and fractions. It is amazing how much we have matured and grown over the last half term and I can’t believe we are coming up to our final term at the Hope Centre and in Rimon class. I am hoping for a sunny and fun-filled final half term.
Have a great half term!
These past two weeks, we have been wrapping up our farm topic, looking at what jobs farmers do throughout the day. We have explored farming themed non-fiction texts.
We never realised how many jobs they do, so we decided to write thank you letters to local farmers. We identified the features of a written letter and drafted them ready to post! As well as this, we have recapped rhyming words and practised ‘Old Macdonald’. We have been looking at addition and subtraction using new methods, line number lines, and column methods. We have been practising these methods through real-life problems, which has been very fun! We have made some wonderful puppets that we took home of our favourite farmyard animal, the horse.
Well done friends! Have a wonderful half-term.
D’vash class have been keeping busy with lots of lessons and activities this week!
In Maths we have been reviewing shapes and learning all about the properties of shapes. We worked on counting the sides and corners of shapes and how to sort them into different groups.
In Literacy we learnt about farm animal babies and everyone really enjoyed singing the Farmyard Jamboree song to name all of the mother and baby animals. Then we all made our own chart to match mother and baby animals and wrote labels or a sentence about them.
I have been so impressed this week by the children’s improving play skills with their friends, everyone is doing a brilliant job at being kind and sharing together with all of the toys we have in D’vash class and in the playground.
Have a wonderful half-term!
We are continuing with our topic of “Living things” and every pupil is fully engaged with the subject of life cycles – our butterflies have now formed the chrysalis and we are eagerly monitoring them before the transformation into the final stage!
The classroom is evidence to all the hard work we have completed with lots of great work on display.
We will also be planting our tomatoes outside now they have been nurtured and watered in class.
The class are enjoying this term’s book “Holes” and it has prompted some very interesting conversations around the subject of rules vs laws. This is a topic we have explored further in our PHSE/circle time sessions with Miss. Danielle.
I am particularly pleased with the progress made by the class in Maths and how they have grasped key geometrical concepts such as angles, calculating area and translation of shapes. We will be looking at practical applications for these skills over the next few weeks.
Last week our P.E. session had to be moved inside due to the poor weather. However, this provided us with the opportunity to have an indoor table tennis competition, which was hugely successful and enjoyable for all. Everyone participated very well, and some important lessons were learned about turn taking and how to accept defeat graciously!
Good work Tamar!
It has been a fantastic week in Chitah class!
In Maths, we are still learning all the different rules and tricks when it comes to addition and subtraction. I have seen the children’s confidence grow and great enthusiasm as they become more familiar with the mathematical concepts! While some children have continued practicing their rote counting and matching numbers with their qualities using concrete objects.
In Literacy, some of the children have learned all about Riddles! They created really exciting and interesting animal riddles which their classmates had a chance to guess each other’s riddles. We also looked the story of Ronald the Rhino and created a comic using speech bubbles to recreate our own story based on the characters.
We have introduced Roald Dahl, some of the class will be exploring imagination and storytelling. While other children are looking at the animals and characters and story of Mrs Wishy Washy.
We are still awaiting the live caterpillar where we will continue looking at Life Cycles focusing on the Butterfly! We are all looking so forward to it!
These past two weeks we have been looking at our new story ‘Farmer Duck’. We have practiced using speech bubbles and creating speech that the characters might say and sequencing the story. We were able to identify rhyming words and all of the animals on the farm, it has been so much fun!
In Maths we have just finished our topic of money and we have started looking at addition and subtraction. We have been exploring the column method and problem solving which we’re all really getting the hang of now. We have also been recapping our number knowledge and practicing adding numbers below ten.
This week we are looking at Shavuot and planting our very own seeds in Literacy. We have had a very special day with Miss Aidy, where we have made our own cheesecakes and had a very special messy play in the afternoon!
It has been another brilliant, busy week in D’vash class!
The children have been learning all about measurement in our Maths lessons. We have measured the weight of lots of our classroom things, using balance scales and real scales. Now we are working on measuring length, using cubes and rulers. We have also been talking all about comparing things by their size, length, height and weight.
Everyone has been really enjoying our Kodesh lessons and whole class therapy sessions. We had great fun at our Shavuot Enrichment Day this week, especially all of the messy play activities and making our own cheesecakes. We have been practicing our acting skills in Matt and Molly with Miss Ashleigh and working hard on our fine motor skills in sessions with Miss Claire and Miss Liv.