In English, the children have loved reading the story of Paddington’s Post, an interactive picture book exploring Paddington’s new life in London after travelling all the way from Darkest Peru, and meeting Mr and Mrs Brown at Paddington station. The children got to open the six envelopes inside and found out all about his new home, family and friends, including Paddington’s first letter to Aunt Lucy, a half-price voucher for his favourite buns, and a very special birthday card. This was all in preparation for some letter writing activities we will be undertaking in the next few weeks. This week, we wrote about our favourite part of the story, stretching out our sentences using the conjunction because.
In maths we have been extending our knowledge of multiples of 10, recognising the efficiency of counting in groups of 10 as opposed to ones. We have also been partitioning numbers into tens and ones. We began by investigating partitioning with concrete resources, such as base 10, followed by abstract numbers and other representations such as part-whole models. We are learning that it does not matter whether one records the tens part or the ones part first, as the whole remains the same.
Contrasting seaside holidays in Humanities, now and in the past, has shown us just how much destinations have opened up in the world due to new methods of transportation. Accessing overseas vacations was only for the very wealthy as the general public tended to holiday in the UK, accessing seaside areas by only road or rail. It was not in fact until Thomas Cook began promoting foreign holidays in the early 1950s with charter flights that the first mass holiday packages came about! We especially loved leaning about bathing machines; carriages popular in Victorian time which transported women from the beach right into the water to avoid changing under the gaze of the men folk!
Thankfully things have moved on!
Have a wonderful weekend.