This week in topic have been focusing on the story ‘The Little Red Hen’. At the start of the week we read the story and thought about new vocabulary that we had not heard of before e.g. ‘mill’, ‘wheat’ and ‘grain’. We then followed a simple recipe to create our own bread rolls. We then thought about where food comes from and how it gets to our supermarkets.
Phonics lessons this week have focused on reviewing all the phase 2 and 3 sounds that we have learnt so far. We have continued to practise segmenting and blending for reading and writing. We have spent time looking closely at words to see if we could spot one of our digraph or trigraph sounds before reading the word. We have also looked at the structure of sentences, including the use of full stops and capital letters.
In Maths we have spent time learning counting songs to 10. We have then recapped skills such as counting objects, ordering numbers to 5 and identifying that numbers can be made of parts and whole.
Our Nativity play is coming along nicely, please continue to practise your child’s line with them and encourage them to use a clear, loud voice. Below are some songs for the children to listen and to and practise at home!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJQqOzkcHjg (from 9seconds-1min20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-OF7KGyDis (from the start-26seconds)
Key Points
- Please can we remind parents again to supply your child with a change of underwear, socks/tights and trousers in their school bags. We have no spare school clothes left to change your children into if they have an accident. Also if you have borrowed any clothes, please can you return them.
- Next week we are making penguin crafts using toilet roll/kitchen roll holders and egg boxes. If you have any of these at home please could you bring them in for us to use at school.
