This week in the classroom

Friday 12th December

The children have continued Christmas activities and learning about Christmas, in addition to phonics, English and maths taught sessions.

In phonics this week, the children have been revisiting sounds and words from the half term. We will assess the children on the sounds and words week beginning 15th December. You can practise at home in just a few minutes. 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 practising counting to larger numbers and spotting the missing parts of a pattern e.g. red, blue, red, blue, red, ?In English the children have begun reading and writing about the story of 'The Little Red Hen'. They write every day using whiteboards and pens and are getting better every time. Children have enjoyed new Christmas activities including making cards, making different decorations, decorating a real tree, learning about the nativity, practising our song for the school performance, and more.

The children have had a great week!

Friday 5th December

The children have started Christmas activities and learning about Christmas, in addition to phonics, English and maths taught sessions.

In phonics this week, the children have been revisiting sounds and words from the half term. We will assess the children on the sounds and words before Christmas. You can practise at home in just a few minutes. 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 parts and whole, such as counting a tower of bricks (parts) which make the whole tower. We also explored the concept that if the tower is knocked down there are the same number of parts as there were before.

In English the children have begun reading and writing about the story of 'The Little Red Hen'. Their writing is really improving and they write every day using whiteboards and pens. Children have enjoyed new Christmas activities including decorating a tree tuff tray, playing small world with our nativity set and Santa & reindeer in the dolls house, making different decorations and Christmas hats.

The children have had a super week!