Mrs Barker's Class 2019-2020

Where will you find this beautiful artwork?

Well you would never think that it is nearly time to break up for the Summer.  We have been working our socks off this week so far.

I have been so proud of the children I have in school and the children who are working from home as they are being such busy little bees.

Some lovely work from the children learning at school and those learning at home.  The theme of Robots and Machines has been really popular and full of engagement from all of the children.

It was soooooooo hot today but this didn't stop us from doing our reading,  We enjoyed chilling out whilst we read our books.  Today's book was very aptly named 'In the sun'.  Some of us even found a lovely shady spot in the willow den to enjoy our ERIC time (Everyone Reading In…

I was totally blown away today and not because of the weather.  We have been trying to increase our stamina when writing and extending our sentences to get lots of details in.  Just look at this amazing writing - I am super super proud.  What is even more amazing is that some of these children are…

Today as part of our Robot topic some of us have been creating our own robots using different pieces of metal from the Transient Art Tray and using shapes from the Number Area.  Don't they look fabulous.   I also received some fabulous work from one of our busy bees working from home.  We seem to…

Today, as part of our Power of Reading session, we pretended we were George the dog and thought about the letters we wanted to write to Harris to say sorry for doing lots of silly things. 

We looked at how a letter is written and how it starts off with the name of the person the letter is going…

In Phonics today we have all been very busy bees.  Mrs Barker's group have been recapping all of the Set 2 sounds by reading the sounds, reading words containing the sounds and spelling words with the sounds in them.  We also wrote sentences using these sounds.  Today we read the book Stop and…

Today we enjoyed sharing the book Oh No George by Chris Haughton.

Before we started to read the book we had a talk about what we thought the character might be called and what we thought the character was.

When then found out he was a dog called George.  We looked carefully at the picture of…

During Maths today we looked at Doubles.  We were so clever at holding up the right number of fingers to show how to make a double.  Mrs Barker wrote a number on the board and we used our fingers to show how to represent the number as a double.

Can you see which numbers we are representing as a…

Today during our little Time to Talk session we read a story called

We talked about the meaning of the word foolish. 

The story was about a fox who didn't want to do all the work on his farm and so he asked the sheep to do it for him.  The sheep tricked the fox by saying they would if they could have half of the food.  The sheep asked the fox which half he would like.  The fox chose the top half and so this is what happened. 

The sheep planted turnips and when they grew they gave the top half to the fox and they kept the lovely turnip which has grown on the bottom half of the plant. 

The fox was cross and so next time he asked for the bottom half.  The sheep then planted corn and gave the fox the bottom half keeping the juicy corn at the top of the plant for themselves. 

Poor fox, he decided that he would have to do all the work himself so he could keep both the top and the bottom of the plants. 

We then played a game and had to decide which half of the plant we wanted.  If we wanted the top half we stood up and if we wanted the bottom half we stayed sitting down. 

Mrs Barker then drew a plant on the board showing how it would look in the ground.  It was fun to see which part we ended up with.    Which half would you like?

Today we have been sorting foods into Healthy and Unhealthy.  We talked about which foods we liked and which foods we didn't like.  We all liked different things and we talked about how it is ok to like and dislike different things.

We cut out all the little pictures using some super scissor…