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Anansi the Spider call and response song

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 During our Literacy lessons, we have been reading Anansi the spider- an African folk tale. We looked at the map of Africa and found Ghana, where the story originates and learnt the call and response song 'Che Che Kule'. Yesterday, we made up our own call and response song based on the story about Anansi. The children learnt their new song and performed it using percussion instruments. Today, the Year 1 children taught the receptions the song and they sang altogether.

Odds and evens investigation

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 Today, we've been investigating which numbers are odd and which are even. The children went into the mud kitchen area and counted out flowers, sticks, bugs etc. then split each number of objects into 2 groups to see if they could be shared equally. They then recorded their findings and looked for patterns.  Sharing 3 flowers into 2 groups Looking for bugs to share. Checking to see if one flower can be shared into 2 groups. Recording their findings. Sharing pebbles into 2 baskets. 

School Trip - Chatsworth Farm

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 Our day out at Chatsworth Farm Bears enjoyed a day out at Chatsworth Farm. It was a beautiful sunny day and we had lots of fun feeding the animals, handling the guinea pigs, watching the sheep shearer and playing and digging in the sand in the play area. We saw the baby foal and the sow waiting to have her piglets, she may have up to twelve piglets in her litter!  We were not hanging by our legs from the swing! but we did have fun!

Sports Day

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 Sports Day Bears had a wonderful time at our school sports day.

Maths

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Maths Bears have been exploring, making and finding doubles!  We looked at  symmetry  and the patterns of doubles .

Topic - On the Beach

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  Holidays In The Past As part of our topic, On the Beach, Bears have been having a jolly old time  looking at holidays in the past.  P eople have had holidays on the beach for many years and we  discussed and  compared days at the beach in the past with our experiences. We shared how we travelled to the beach, what we wore and things that we enjoyed doing at the beach. P eople in the past came by train, wore knitted swimsuits made from wool and often came to the beach dressed in their best clothes. The men sometimes wore shirts, trousers and jackets and the women wore their best clothes and most people wore hats. We noticed that the pictures and film footage that we looked at from the past, were black and white, not colour. We learnt that there were no colour pictures taken in the past, they would paint a photograph if they wanted it be in colour. Bears dressed up as people from the past and we took our own black and white photographs.

Babbling Vagabonds

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 Babbling Vagabonds Bears enjoyed a visit from the Babbling Vagabonds. We made pictures and models of the houses in which we live in. We discussed where we lived, which village or town and what we know about our local area. The models were then presented in a model 'village' of our local and surrounding areas.