Welcome to Chestnut's class page. Here, you can find out what we've been up to and what's coming up. We are very excited about the year ahead and we hope you enjoy looking at our wonderful work!
Useful information
PE
PE this term will be on a Monday and Tuesday (taught by Liam). Monday will be gymnastics and Tuesday will be football. Please could the children come in on these days in their PE kits on these days.
Home learning
Reading: Please listen to your child read at least 3 times a week. You can find ideas for comprehension questions to ask at home in the Reading resources section of the website.
Reading books are changed on Thursdays.
Phonics/spelling: Please practise phase 3 and phase 5 phonics sounds at least 3 times a week, using the sounds to make words. Practise Year 1 or 2 common exception words Spelling resources
(Year 2 only) A weekly spelling assignment will be uploaded (starting on Term 3) onto https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb
TTRS (Numbots): Using Numbots (Year 1/Year 2) and/or Timestable Rockstars (Year 2 only) at least 3 times a week. See Times table Rockstars Support
Mission: Choose one or more of the extra mission tasks set on Class dojo to complete at home. Send in photos of your work onto Class Dojo that you would like to share with the class on to each mission task.
Items to bring in daily:
Water bottles, lunch boxes and appropriate outdoor clothing
Items to leave in school:
Wellies, painting shirt and waterproof clothing.
Term 1
Our mission question: Where are we in the UK?
English
In our first week in Chestnut class we have been reading Silly Billy by Anthony Browne. He is given worry dolls by his Grandma to help him with all his worries. We then designed, described and made our own worry doll to take home.
RE
In RE we are answering the question 'How should we care for others and the world and why does it matter?
We watched the story of the The Rainbow fish and the good samaritan and talked about how they both show friendship and kindness. We then acted out the story of the Good Samaritan in groups.
Art
This term we are learning about the British artist Andy Goldsworthy. He uses only nature to create his sculptures. He experiments with nature and how the elements can affect his artwork. We have done our own experiment. We have create our own sculptures in the forest and next week we will compare what they look like after being left for 1 week. These are our sculptures once they were made.
English
We have been readin Lubna and Pebble and writing our own stories. We have then created our own pebble friend.
Forest
We had a great time exploring the forest today after lots of rainfall! Lots of mud!
Art
Today we have been experimenting with different shapes of of clay. Andy Goldsworthy has created incredible art through clay and watching it crack once dried. We will see what happens to the different thickness, length and shapes of the clay next week.
