Chitah Blog

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!!

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!

It has been a busy and exciting week!
In Maths, we have been learning all about the different rules and tricks when it comes to addition and subtraction. Some children are working
on single digits numbers whilst others are focusing on two-digit numbers.
Consolidation and repetition continue to be of high importance for our children in developing their academic skill sets. It has been a pleasure to see all their determination and hard work!
We have been doing cross-curricula learning in Literacy and Topic. The children have looked at David Attenborough’s Adventures, discovering
and learning all about animals on planet earth. We have been looking at the world maps and identifying the seven continents in which Attenborough travelled to. The children expressed that they cannot wait to be able to travel again (post-Covid) and where they would like to go!
Everyone is busy working on their adventure story which has been really creative and so exciting!!
Last week we learnt all about ‘Knights and Castles’. We focused on constructive play which was explored through a historical and fairy-tale context. The children made castles, shields and swords from cardboard boxes.
Well done Chitah class for all participating and being such fantastic knights!

It has been a great week back in Chitah class!
Our topic this term is living things where we will be learning all about the life cycle and the many vast and wonderful creatures in this world.
To help us do this, we have introduced David Attenborough and his adventures discovering and learning all about animals on Planet Earth.
This topic will be cross-curricula this term, and will be used to support in our other lessons to help make the learning impactful, cohesive, and relevant.
We had a fantastic Thursday this week celebrating Israel’s birthday where we went on a virtual tour of Israel using VR goggles and augmented reality technology. We also cooked Israeli food, and went for our very first trip as a class when we went on a mile walk outside of the school to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day. Hopefully we will be able to do more excursions like this in the coming months as the covid restrictions begin to relax, as it was a great opportunity to practice a range of skills within a different context.
Well done Chitah class for a fantastic first full week back.