This week, we continued to find out more about creatures that hatch from eggs and started with the delightful story of ‘The Odd Egg’ by Emily Gravett which you can revisit here:

Next, we read the story of The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water by Gemma Merino which also has a surprising ending:

And finally, we read the story of Alan’s Big, Scary Teeth by Jarvis:

Because Alan’s name starts with an ‘a’, we wondered if Alan might be an alligator, rather than a crocodile.  We decided to find out a bit more about the difference between crocodiles and alligators and, after some quick Googling by Mrs Mooney, we discovered several interesting facts about these reptiles.  We were especially amazed to discover that they have 60 and 80 teeth, far more than our 20!  We thought it must take Alan a very long time to brush his teeth!

In our R.E. lesson, we learnt that Christians believe God created our world and all of the amazing things we find in it.  We watched a video about God creating the earth which you can revisit here:

Afterwards, we took a walk in the winter sunshine to have a look at our wonderful world.  We spotted so many things that we had not noticed before…a jet plane stream, ivy growing up and around the bark of a tree, tiny pine cones which had fallen from a pine tree, daisies growing in the grass, squelchy mud puddles and the moon in the sky!

We also noticed that we each had a very tall shadow which followed us all around the field!  It only fell on one side of us and we learnt this is because shadows are formed when we stand in front of the sun and block the rays of light.

Back inside, Mrs Warner invited us into the big hall for another Assembly and we learnt more about what life was like in Jesus’ time.  We found out about the sort of house that Jesus would have lived in, the sort of clothes he would have worn and the sort of food he would have eaten.  We were amazed to discover that only some boys (not girls) went to school and only until the age of 12.

In our maths lessons this week, we have been focusing on comparing quantity and we have been thinking about the ideas of ‘too many’, ‘not enough’ and ‘equal’.  Stanley, Gruffy and Fred each wanted to eat some sweets but they needed the children’s help to make sure everyone had an equal amount.  Luckily, the children were able to say who had too many, who had not enough and how to make things equal!

Finally, we learnt three new sounds in our phonics lessons this week.  These sounds are  ‘special friends’, just like the ones we learnt last week, where two letters sit together to make one sound.

The special friends we learnt are ‘ch’, ‘qu’ and ‘ng’ – (‘ng’ has a saying that goes with it: ‘thing on a string’):

Have a lovely weekend everyone, see you on Monday!