Year 2

Year 2 have been learning about the structure of the rain forest. Below is a diagram of the structure and a typed up explanation of what has been drawn. 

"This is our picture of the rainfoest. It shows the four layrs of the rainforest like the forst floor, the under canpy, the canpy and finally the emergent layer. The sun does not get to touch the forst floor and it is very dark so that’s why we coloured it in black. It’s a bit lighter in the under canpy because a littl bit more light gets there. Trees grow taller in the canopy layr because they get more sun. But the layr with the tallest trees is the emergent layer because thos trees pop out of the canopy layr. They get the most sun of all and they have a shampe like an umbrella!"

Marie-Ann and Lea

Year 1
This week we have been learning about fractions. We started the week finding parts of a whole practically using a range of resources. Here is a child in 1A piecing together parts of a pizza to make a whole. 

Here is an example of how we used the numicon to find equal pieces of a whole. This child was able to find 1/3 of 6.

 This child has split 20 into 4 groups, finding out that 1/4 of 20 =5.

In English we have been looking at traditional tales. 

1M have been retelling the story of The Frog Prince by sequencing the story into the opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending. In this video children in 1M act out the opening scene.

We loved the use of actions, expression and clear voices.

Year 2

2J have been learning about a variety of important concepts in science this week. The children worked together in small groups to explore the life cycles of humans and other animals. Also, they discussed what humans, plants and animals need to do to grow and stay healthy. As a class we drew a number of conclusions about the basic needs of living things.

Straight into learning

Welcome back to The Grove Academy. We hope you enjoyed your break and had a rest!
This week Year 1 were straight into their learning by using rulers and cubes to measure the length of different objects that you might find in a castle.

On Wednesday we got to choose which equipment we wanted to measure in when given a choice of cubes or a ruler. We had a go at recording too. 

Eg:

The flag = 12 cubes.

The flag = 29cm. 

Here is a picture of Sanuga's work from 1F

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Retelling and Ordering

1F

In year 1 this week we have been learning about ordinal numbers and positional language.  On Thursday, the children used characters from the narrative Curious George and the Hot Air Balloon to use positional language to explain where the characters are.

The pictures show us using puppets to say where George was on the Trim Trail.  

                                                                          

“George is on top of the beam.” Child in 1F

2D

The children worked in groups to sequence the story of Katie in London.

They created a story mountain and put the 5 main parts of the text in order.

They then worked to retell the narrative using story language.

As an extension, the children were given two extra images to sequence into the story mountain.

Success criteria

- 5 main parts (opening, build up etc)

- verbs

- adverbs

- varied openers

- generalising words

- language bank

- story language

“The children were exhausted”  Marie-Ann

“Suddenly they heard a huge groan” Mia

“All of a sudden the grey statue turned gold … he was alive!” Ivo

“He looked at them sadly” Lea

Transport on fire!

1F

Inspired by range of vehicles, year 1 wrote descriptions of the vehicles. We used some features of a poem, including adjectives and alliteration and onomatopoeia. 

2J
Wednesday 4^th November 2015

Learning intention: To write a poem.

The Great Fire of London

In London when the fire started to spread,

While the bakery man was still in bed,

I think the building should,

Be made of bricks, not wood.

The year was 1666, late one September night,

The baker’s shop in Pudding lane was alight,

All the lovely people began to run,

But the baker didn’t know what he had done!

The flames started to give off smoke,

But then some people began to choke.

                     - by Lily Hazel (2J)

About this poem: This term our theme is The Great Fire of London. Lily wrote this creative poem using her comprehension skills to recall key historical facts about the fire. 

Maths patterns

This week in 1A we have been learning about patterns. We started by continuing colour patterns then used our bodies to create shape patterns. Here are two different positions we got ourselves into. Can you identify the repeating pattern? 

Children in 1A

Harvest learning

This week was our second lesson from the Watford Schools Trust. We learnt about Harvest in preparation for our school collection next week.

Here are pictures of us opening a present- inside was the Earth.

Some children in 1A gave feedback on the lessons. We gave Watford Schools Trust two ticks and a wish on their lesson.

Ticks: 
"The lessons was fun because there was lots of songs and actions"- Ndey
"There was lots of learning and information" - Alex

Wish:
"Come back again at Christmas" - Tao

Thank you for coming to teach us!
From Year 1