Author: Roxanne Conniff

This week covered er, air, double letters, longer words and tricky words; full, push, and, go, no and of. In Maths we focussed on subitising looking at doubles up to 5 and using manipulatives and pictorial representations to build on previous experiences with dice patterns and numbers on fingers. The story of the week was Jack and the Beanstalk and

This week in Phonics we revisited all phase 3 sounds and tricky words. In Maths we looked at the composition of 7 when it is split into two parts using the vocabulary part and whole. We also started our new topic ‘Ready, Steady Grow’ by reading The Gigantic Turnip and writing about the story in our books. We also investigated

This week we focussed on longer words such as carpet, chicken, bedroom and many more. The tricky words were are, sure, pure, into, she, he, we, me, be and of. In maths we compared quantities and focussed on numbers to 8 and where other numbers are in relation to each other. In other areas we listened to different types of

This week we covered the new phonemes air, er and double letters bb, rr, gg, dd, pp, ff, tt. We learnt the new tricky words are, sure and pure. In maths the children focussed on the principles of counting, number formation, exploring 5 and a bit to make numbers larger than 5 and 1 more and 1 less up to

This week in phonics we learnt the sounds ur, ow, oi and ear, we also learnt some new tricky words my, by and all. In maths we have been learning about more and fewer and comparing sets of objects using new terminology we have learnt. This week we have read the book ‘Peepo!’ by Alan and Janet Ahlberg we enjoyed

This week we covered the sounds ai, ee igh and oa and we revised our tricky words. We were very excited to see that a visitor had been in the classroom! The tiger from the story The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr had visited us and left some paw prints! The children then enjoyed completing challenges that

This week we retold the Christmas Story, we learnt about friendship in RE and we used our writing and phonemic skills to write letters to Santa! In Maths we focussed on the positioning of numbers to 5, understanding sequencing and understanding that each number has a value of one more. On Thursday we had lots of fun at our Christmas

This week was Nativity week! We enjoyed dressing up and performing ‘Our First Nativity’. In the classroom we covered words ending with -s and tricky words we, me and be. In Maths we have been subitising, recognising numerals, matching quantities to numerals and playing games using giant dice. In other areas we have been thinking about different types of puppets

This week the children were taught the new sounds sh, th, ng and nk and tricky words she, he, and of. In maths we focussed on counting by subitising to 5, singing songs like ‘Once I Caught a Fish Alive’ and playing the equal and not equal game. We read Room on the Broom and spoke about the characters and

This week we covered the new phonemes z, qu, ch and tricky words go, to, no and into. We are applying our phonics in different areas and writing more words on whiteboards. In Maths we looked at the composition of numbers to 5 using the terminology part and whole and we looked at patterns. We also spoke to a special