Our story focus this week in topic has been ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We have really enjoyed reading some different versions of these stories and comparing the story events and characters. We looked at the life cycle of a bean and then planted some of our own. We have put these on the classroom windows so that we can observe any changes. The children came up with some amazing ideas to create their very own beanstalks in discovery time.
In Phonics we have learnt the new sounds ai, ee, igh and oa. We discussed how ‘igh’ is a trigraph because it has three letters to make one sound. We practised using these sounds when segmenting and blending words for reading and writing. We also continue to recap all of the sounds and ‘harder to read and write words’ that we have learnt so far.
In Maths we have been focusing on composition. Through practical experience, we looked a whole can be made up of smaller parts. We looked at the different parts of toys, the human body and animals. We then moved on to looking at the parts and whole of numbers using the Numberblocks and cubes e.g. 3 is the whole, 2 is a part and 1 is a part.
Key Points
- If your child needs clothes for the Nativity play they will now have a note in their yellow reading record books. If there isn’t a note it means the school are providing your child’s costume.
- Over the next few weeks please practise your child’s Nativity line as much as possible so they are confident to say this independently.
