This week we started our new book ‘Sidney, Stella and the Moon’.
This a story about twins Sidney and Stella who love doing everything together – everything except sharing. In the story a quarrel over a bouncy ball creates a moon-sized problem when they accidentally smash the moon into pieces! The siblings have to work together to solve the problem and find a new moon.
When we finished this story, it got us thinking about fiction and non-fiction. We knew this story must be fiction because the moon wouldn’t be broken by a bouncy ball. This got us thinking about everything else we knew about the moon and we wrote information pages to share are fascinating facts.
Please quiz us at home about our knowledge of the moon, as we are now ‘Moon Experts’. We can tell you all about what it’s like on the moon, missions to the moon (including Apollo 11 and Apollo 13) and we have learnt some great ‘Did you know?’ facts.
In maths we have been learning how to add two numbers together and then calculate related addition facts. For example, if 12 + 8 = 20 then 8 + 12 = 20. We used part, part whole models to help us in our calculations.
In science we have been learning about man-made and natural materials.
In phonics we have been reviewing the sounds we have learnt this half term:
ee (see)
oo (zoo)
igh (high)
ay (play)
air (fair)
or (for)
ir (girl)
There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login
Next week we will be making fact books about the Apollo 11 mission to the moon and finishing our work on addition before moving onto subtraction.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂