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
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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
Mr Taylor and Chester enjoyed sharing some of their favourite stories.