Conker Class - Term 2

Christmas has come to Conker Class! The children came into school on the 1st December to find we had a new visitor in our class, with a special letter delivered all the way from the North Pole. Miss Muskett read out the letter and we found out our new member would be keeping an eye on the children for Santa in the run up to Christmas! The class also had to give the elf a name, so we took ideas from everyone, before conducting a class vote. Our new friend is now called 'Twinkle' and has a terrible habit of hiding around the classroom each day - so much so, that some of the children took it upon themselves to keep an eye on Twinkle at all times, even during phonics!

Y1 - elf visitor

 

This week (WC 24.11), we were learning about animal diets. We found out about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and created definitions for each one. The children were then given animal cards with pictures of the foods they eat to sort into the three different diet groups.

 

This term, Conker class are learning about algorithms and instructions in computing. Last week (WC 17.11), the children had to try and follow a set of instructions on the board to open a task, complete it in a set time frame, save it and finally hand it in.

 Last week in maths, the children were introduced to parts and wholes. We selected a number of double-sided counters for our 'whole', before dropping them onto the table and recording how many landed yellow-side up and how many landed red-side up. These became our 'parts'. The children really impressed us with their grasp of this concept and were able to later apply it to part-whole models.

Y1 - parts and whole maths

Conker class have kicked off the term with lots of art in the first week! First, we created a display of poppies to show our respect to all those who served in the World War One. The children enjoyed learning about what each poppy represented before painting or colouring in a poppy using one of those colours. Then, we completed our final piece of work inspired by Aborigine art. The children looked at pointillism within Aborigine artwork and how nature and symbols are a prominent feature. Each child chose an animal to draw, before outlining and decorating around it in dots for the pointillism effect.