Week 4

Literacy

This week we have been consolidating the group of sounds: j, ai, oa, ee and or. These are quite tricky ones so remember so please keep practising them at home. We had lots of fun in class being sounds detectives and going on a sound hunt – we had look for the sounds and then read the ones that we saw.

We have also been working hard at using our phonics knowledge to blend sounds together to read words.

I was very impressed during our reading comprehension session this week. The children demonstrated good understanding of their books by retelling them and then completed a written follow up task.

We continued to work on our text Cecil the Spider and this week created a Story Map as a class

We then used this to help us retell the story.

To help us make our writing more interesting we focussed on different words for said this week. We had lots of fun coming up with ideas including; screamed, squeaked, whispered, asked, shouted and roared! We also had a think about different time connectives and made up a tool box with some examples. These included ; next, after that, the second time, the third time, the last time and eventually. The children participated very well during these activities 😀

On Friday we had a go at writing a sentence independently. We had to include a describing word for Cecil and remember a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. A lot to remember but no problem for us! I was delighted with the standard of all the writing and can’t wait to get some up on display on our new writing wall. 😀✏️📝👍

Numeracy

This week we started to look at multiplication, we have been talking about sharing, making equal groups, pairs and skip counting in 2s.

Here we are sharing objects into equal groups.

Socks

Your child may have asked if they can take a pair of old socks to school….this is for a number display we plan to make. So if you have any unwanted socks please send them in. They will be returned. 😀👍🧦🧦

Topic

As part of our Science topic related to Space we have been learning about day and night. We talked about the difference between day and night, the presence of the sun, what we can see at these times and what activities we do. We used some pictures to do a sorting activity and made some day and night artwork. ☀️🌙🌎🌓

Yoga

This week we were mastering the spider pose to be like Cecil! Not easy but we gave it our best shot! 🧘‍♀️🧘🏼‍♂️🕷

Lunar New Year

Following our learning about Chinese New Year C took in some fantastic things from home to show us and a selection photos to look at. Thank you for sharing this 😀