Innovating ‘The Enormous Turnip’!

By Jodie Buss20th May 2024

We are getting very good at innovating stories now and using our talk for writing skills and signifiers to retell stories and expand our story-telling language!

The last few weeks we have been learning the story of ‘The Enormous Turnip’ and loved performing the story using our signifiers and props! Today we decided to change the story slightly and make up our own version! We changed the turnip into ‘The Enormous Pumpkin’ and changed the characters that helped to pull and pull! The children loved retelling our innovated story and thought of some more actions to represent our fox, goat and deer! We cant wait to use these actions to help us write our story tomorrow…

This week in F2…

By Mrs L READ17th May 2024

This week in F2, we have continued with our story, The Enormous Turnip. In literacy as well as retelling the story using our signifiers, we had a go at hot seating. This is when one of the children pretends to be a character from the story, and the other children ask them questions. Mia, Forrest, Thomas and Declan took turns at being the farmer and the children thought of some fabulous questions…”why wouldn’t the turnip come out?”, “how did it taste?” and “have you ever grown anything so big?”.

 In maths, we continued rotating and manipulating shapes to make more patterns and pictures.

On Wednesday we had a special visitor, Neil from the local Buddhist Centre. He chatted to us about Buddha, explained their beliefs and brought special artifacts which they use. We loved the special bell, drum and sound bowl, which we used while we did some meditation.

In Jigsaw (our PSHE learning) we were thinking about what makes a good friend and how we can make someone who is lonely feel happier.

We have also looked at the history of farming and created some beautiful trees in art, inspired by Kandinsky’s concentric circles.

PE was focused on our football skills; controlling, stopping and dribbling the ball and we also enjoyed different types of jumping… it’s been a very busy week!

Fabulous Writing!

By Jodie Buss13th May 2024

We are super impressed with the writing in F2 over the past few weeks!

We have been learning the story of ‘The Enormous Turnip‘ and can now retell the story confidently using signifiers! This has helped us in our writing and inspired us to write about the story and the key events!

We have been working hard at checking our writing and making sure we are using capital letters, fingers spaces and full stops!

This week in F2…

By Mrs L READ10th May 2024

This week in F2, we have started our story, The Enormous Turnip. In literacy we have been acting out the story using our signifiers, drawing our story maps and adding sentences to it too. We think of a sentence together, hold it in our head, count on our fingers how many words are in it and then use our Fred Fingers to help spell the words.  We remember that a sentence must always have a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.  

 In maths, we have had a closer look at shapes. We looked at similarities and differences between shapes, we learnt that even if we rotate a shape, it remains the same shape and then we manipulated shapes to make patterns and pictures.  

On Tuesday we had our Big Build Stay and Play where we had great fun building bridges… we used Lego, rolled up newspaper, junk modelling, wooden and foam bricks… it was lovely to see our children working together with their grown-up and some amazing constructions were made. A big thank you to those that were able to join us.  

As always, we have spent lots of time learning and discovering outdoors…the weather has been so sunny, we have loved being able to go out without our coats on. Please remember to send your child with a sun hat, water bottle and apply sunscreen at home. 

We’ve splashed in the water, while creating waterways to fill buckets, built the best sandcastles decorated with sparkly jewels and made delicious picnic feasts and soups in our mud kitchen. 

 

This week in F2…

By Mrs L READ3rd May 2024

In literacy we continued with the story of the 3 B

illy goats, but this time we got imaginative and innovated the story.  The goats changed to pigs and the troll turned into a scary dragon! We had great fun acting out our new story, and then used our phonic knowledge to write some fabulous sentences.

In maths we focused more on number bonds to 5 and 10, thinking of all the different ways to make these numbers. We’ve also sang number songs, our favourites are ’10 fat sausages’ where we need to take away numbers and ‘1 potato, 2 potato’ where we need to add

numbers.

In art we used our knowledge of paint mixing and got creative, painting our own concentric circles inspired by Kandinsky… they all looked truly amazing and individual.

In PE we continued with our circuit training. The children thoroughly enjoyed last week, so this week we invited Mrs. Marson to join us, and she did! After a good warm-up we had 60 seconds at each station… star jumps, burpees, walking lunges, step ups and planks… we all worked so hard, and then enjoyed a much needed cool down.

On Thursday Purple Pig Farm came to visit…we were all so excited! We saw a calf, sheep, pigs, rabbits and a 6 day old goat called Dora. We even got to hold a chick, which we all loved.

On Friday we all had ‘Freedom Friday’ as a reward for having the highest attendance of the week (Mrs. Buss/Miss Carrick’s class with 99%, amazing!) we get to wear non-uniform and have a flapjack treat… yummy!

We have also enjoyed our wonderful outdoor area this week … we’ve used tubes and pipes to make fantastic waterways, made sandcastles to keep the troll away, cooked delicious snacks for the goats in our mud kitchen and developed our physical strength on our climbing wall and pole…we love exploring and learning outside!

We hope you all have a happy Bank Holiday Weekend, we’ll see you back at school on Tuesday 6th May.

Library afternoon!

By Jodie Buss1st May 2024

F2 had a lovely afternoon listening to stories and looking at books in our beautiful library!

We love our sessions in the library and are getting very good at taking care of books and using our library voices!

There are lots of interesting non-fiction and fiction books and the children especially liked ‘The little people big dreams’ collection!

Innovating the story!

By Jodie Buss1st May 2024

Over the last few weeks F2 have been learning the story of ‘The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff!’ We have loved acting out the story and performing it to each other using our talk for writing signifiers! We are now very familiar with how traditional tales start and end and some of the vocabulary used! We have created some amazing story maps, wanted posters and sentence strips! We also had a visit from the troll himself and did some fabulous hot seating, asking lots of interesting questions!

This week (because we know the story so well!) we decided to mix it up a bit and change some parts of the story! Mrs Buss used our tales toolkit basket to help us and we had so much fun playing with different characters and different problems! In the end we decided to change the three goats to pigs and change the problem of a troll to a… dragon! The children loved performing the story again, using the same vocabulary but with different characters! We have created some amazing writing from this and it has inspired us in our play to make up our own versions!!!

By Mrs L READ26th April 2024

This week in F2, we have continued our story, The 3 Billy Goats Gruff.

In literacy we have been retelling the story using our signifiers, while discussing the beginning, middle, end, problem, journey and solution of the story. We also thought of words to describe that terrible troll and used our ‘fred fingers’ to pinch the sounds to help us write:-

‘I can see a bad troll’, ‘Push the troll off’ and ‘It is bad grass’.

In maths we have continued exploring teen numbers and number bonds to ten as well as creating patterns and writing number sentences in our maths area.

In preparation for Purple Pig Farm visiting us next week, we looked at the differences between farm life and our own lives.

We have also been carefully watching our eggs, we can’t wait for them to hatch!

On Wednesday it was ‘Beep, beep day’ and the children really impressed us with their knowledge of road safety.  We took a walk in the local area, found a zebra crossing and used ‘stop, look, listen, think’ to cross the road safely.

In art we enjoyed exploring mixing primary colours to make new ones, red and yellow to make orange, blue and yellow to make green and that mixing red and blue makes purple. We also discovered that by adding white, we can make lots of different tones of colours, we had great fun!

This week in F2…

By Jodie Buss22nd April 2024

This week in F2, we have started our story, The 3 Billy Goats Gruff.

First, we read the book together, lots of us were familiar with it and loved joining in, especially with the “who’s that trip-trapping over my bridge?”

Next, we had great fun acting out the story…Mrs. Buss was the troll, she was very scary!

Finally, we read the story again, this time using signifiers to help to retell the story.

In literacy we have been sequencing the story, drawing a map of the story and adding dictated sentences (this is when we make up a sentence together, using the correct structure, including capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.)

 In maths, we have been learning our teen numbers.  We know that a teen number always has one set of ten, so we can put that in our head and count on.

In PE we took part in team games, taking turns and cheering our team members on.

In RE we found out that Buddhism is one of the largest religions of the world, it is based what Buddha taught people and they live by 5 important rules. Not lying or stealing are two of them, we discussed why these are important to our lives too.

We also learnt about the famous artist Wassily Kandinsky. He was born in Russia in 1866 and many people believe he was the first abstract painter.  He didn’t paint objects and instead painted colours and shapes, often listening to music so he could try to paint what he heard and felt … next week we will be embracing our creativity and painting in the style of Kandinsky.

As always, we have spent lots of time learning and discovering outdoors…weeding and watering our tomato plants that have started to grow, checking our bug hotel for creatures, making troll bridges and a feast for the goats in the mud kitchen.

 

 

The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff!

By Jodie Buss16th April 2024

F2 have started their new talk for writing text this week, the traditional tale of…

‘The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff’!

We came to school to find an amazing bridge had been built in the classroom with a bridge crossing over to a beautiful sweet meadow! The children were all very excited to read the story together and take part in a little performance! The children were brilliant at ‘trip trapping’!!! Unfortunately they bumped into a grumpy angry troll along the way, who was feeling a little hungry for goat! Luckily the Big Billy Goat came to the rescue and saved the day and all the goats (and children!) lived happily ever after!!! This story inspired a lot of our play throughout the morning and the children have loved playing the different roles from the story! We are going to be learning the signifiers for our story over the next few weeks…