This week in the classroom

Friday 28th November

The children have continued working around our Autumn 2 theme of ‘changes’,in addition to phonics, English and maths taught sessions.

In phonics this week, the children learned the sounds 'th', 'ng' and 'nk', in addition to revising all other sounds. We have also been learning tricky words ' of he go no to into she push' This video shows how to pronounce each sound we will learn during the Autumn 2 term. The link for the Autumn 1 sounds is here.

In maths, we have continued learning about the composition of objects and numbers, focusing on 'parts' and 'whole.' Children used same amounts of cube to make different shapes, noting that there were still the same number of parts in the whole shape.

In English the children have continued reading and writing about Sam the squirrel from our book 'The Leaf Thief'. Children used their phonics knowledge to try writing words on whiteboards. They also ordered pictures from the story and wrote captions for these in their books.

To mark Road Safety day, children completed road safety themed pencil control and colouring sheets, in addition to a discussion about crossing the road. We learned about crossing safely by watching a video with our favourite characters cross with a police man 

The children have had a great week!

Friday 21st November

The children have continued working around our Autumn 2 theme of ‘changes’,in addition to phonics, English and maths taught sessions.

In phonics this week, the children learned the sounds 'z', 'qu' and 'ch', in addition to revising 'j', 'v', 'x', 'y' and 'w'. We have also been learning tricky words 'and has his her go no to into.' This video shows how to pronounce each sound we will learn during the Autumn 2 term. The link for the Autumn 1 sounds is here.

In maths, we have been learning about repeating patterns using a variety of objects such as cubes, natural objects, counters, toys. For example, red, blue, red, blue, red, blue. We have also been learning about the composition of objects and numbers, focusing on 'parts' and 'whole.'

In English the children have begun writing about Sam the squirrel from our new book 'The Leaf Thief'. They have also roleplayed as the characters in our Sam the squirrel tree house (homecorner). The children have been fascinated by the cold weather and ice outside; our water trays were frozen, trapping toys inside!. Children also used magnifiers to look closely at Autumn natural objects and the broken ice.

The children have had a great week!