In our traditional tales topic this week we have focused on the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We started the week thinking about all the traditional tales we already knew that have a wolf character in them. We then read different versions of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ stories to compare the similarities and differences. We also chose one of our favourite characters to draw and add simple labels to and created some wanted posters to find the wolf!
In Phonics we have introduced the new digraphs ch, th, ng, nk. We have been segmenting and blending for reading and writing. We are starting to focus on developing the children’s writing and using the skills taught to hear the sounds in order. We have also discussed the importance of reading back our writing to check for any mistakes. We then looked at sentence structure and discussed full stops and capital letters.
In discovery time the children loved making new houses for the three little pigs in lots of different ways, for example junk modelling, construction bricks, natural resources and duplo. We had lots of fun trying to blow these over like a wolf with our breath, paper fans and a hair dryer! In the creation station we enjoyed making our own versions of the third little pigs stew for the wolf to fall into.
In PE we focused on our throwing and catching skills using a medium sized soft ball. We thought about how to place our hands when trying to catch the ball. We had a go at this independently and then practised with a partner.
In Maths this week we have been learning about ‘more than’ and ‘fewer than’. We started the week by comparing amounts of objects. We then introduced the children to ‘numicon’ and how this can be used to compare amounts. The children are becoming confident in using our stem sentences to help them reason and explain. An example of our stem sentence ‘5 is more than 3’ and ‘2 is fewer than 3’.
