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We have used the mathematical vocabulary greater than, less than and equal to, to compare amounts practically using the correct symbols.

This week in writing we have been focussing on using high level vocabulary to uplevel our work!

Today, we had fun playing playground games with a younger year group for our citizenship award!

Today we reread the story ‘Whatever Next!’. We recapped the features of a book including the title and the blurb and then used props and character masks to act out different parts of the story. We considered how the characters would have been feeling and thinking. 

Today in maths we have been representing numbers within 3! We are super mathematicians in reception.

We have compared groups of amount using the vocabulary fewer, more and the same. The children used counters, cubes or compare bears to make two groups and then verbally said if the groups were fewer, more or the same - “I have fewer counters than cubes. I have more cubes than counters.” They all…

In computing we have used our IPads to change the font, size of the writing and colour. We experimented how this changes how our presentation looks. 

This week in Maths, we have been focussing on using the inverse operation to check our answers. This is something Year 5 found quite difficult at first but have shown great resilience within their Maths lessons.

We have been very impressed this week with the independent writes Year 5 have produced, they have used some fantastic high level vocabulary!

This week we enjoyed the play dough. We used our fine motor skills to manipulate the dough to make different features of our face. We then talked about our families and the children started to make their family members. 
We discussed is everyone the same? What makes us different? Is it ok to be…

Today we worked in groups to make number blocks! We recapped the numbers 0 and 1, and incorporated our new number 2. The children did super and they can all recognise numbers 0,1 and are recognising 2 with little support.

We worked together to count out cubes and make up numbers within 2, we…

This week we have been learning all about our families. Who is in our family?
We drew pictures from memory and with the support of some images from home of who is part of our family. 
We learnt everybody’s family is different.