This week in the classroom

Friday 6th March

The children have have a wonderful week of learning and play.

In phonics this week, the children have continued to revise the sounds they learned before half term and practising tricky words. They also practised blending sounds together to read familiar and new words. You can practise at home in just a few minutes. This video shows how to pronounce each sound we learned in Autumn 2 term. The link for the Autumn 1 sounds is here. The sounds we learned in Spring are all here. 

In maths, we have continued to learn about ordering numbers (and the Numberblocks) to 8. Children counted them forwards and backwards. They also considered which numbers were bigger and smaller, using vocabulary of 1 more and 1 less. In English, we have continued to our non-fiction book 'Seed to Sunflower', noting the features of the text. The children have written a list of things needed to grow a sunflower plant. Children also write every day using whiteboards and pens or their phonics books. 

The children have loved other activities this week - they have enjoyed planting pretend food in the soil to dig up in our farmer tuff tray, crafted beautiful flowers in the craft area and of course enjoyed World Book Day, during which we painted book characters to decorate our reading area, wore pyjamas, joined a national live lesson and read plenty of stories!