A week of Jamaican learning

What a fantastic final week we have had learning about Jamaica. On Tuesday we were visited by two chefs from Boom Taste, a new Caribbean take-away in Bath. The children had great fun making fried plantain and dumplings. They had even more fun tasting the finished products! This really helped our Jamaican topic come to life. The chefs really enjoyed working with the children and were impressed with their knowledge of Jamaica.

Learning about plantain

The chopped plantain ready to be cooked

Making dumplings

Tasting the dumplings

We also had a visit from Una and Ryan who are both from Jamaica. The children asked lots of interesting questions and found out lots about what life was like growing up in Jamaica. We even got to try some Jamaican treats!

Miss Hurley and Miss Granato are sadly leaving us at the end of the week. They have been with us since October and we have all loved having them in 1B. The children have learnt so much from them and I know that they have learnt lots from being with the children! We wish them the best of luck as they move on to their next school placement. I know they will both be brilliant teachers!

Please note there will be no spellings sent home this week as next week is half- term.

Have a lovely break!

Money money money!

We have had another busy week in 1B

In Numeracy we have been exploring money. We have been identifying and sorting coins and have begun to exchange coins. See if your child can tell you all the ways we made 20p and 50p. It would be great if you could let your child look at and explore real coins at home. Next week we will be moving on to giving change so the more familiar the children are with money the better.

In Literacy we have been continuing our topic on Jamaica. We used all the facts we have learnt to make some wonderful information posters. We have also been learning about Jamaican 'patois', see if your child can remember some of the words they learnt. Next week we will be having a special visitor who will be coming in to talk about life in Jamaica. Please take some time to talk with your child and come up with a question that they would like to ask our visitor.

In phonics we have been learning the alternative pronunciations of the graphemes ‘ch’ ‘y’ ‘a’ and ‘ou’. We are also continuing to practice our joins in handwriting.

The children have been enjoying the challenge of learning their spellings, please continue to support your child to learn them. Please note that the ‘look, say, cover, write, check’ grids do not need to be returned to school they are just to support the children at home.

Next week is the last week that Miss Hurley and Miss Granato will be with us in 1B and we are all looking forward to a fantastic final week together.

Have a lovely weekend!