In Maths this week, we have been comparing quantities of objects. The activities this week will focus on developing this innate skill as children are encouraged to look carefully and use the language of comparison to describe sets of objects that they can see. Language is a key focus and adults will model the language of ‘more than’ and ‘fewer than’ to describe how many objects there are in each set. ‘Fewer than’ is used rather than ‘less than’ because the focus is on countable things.
In Phonics we have continued to learn the final Phase 2 phonics sounds, l, ll, f and ff as well as begin learning Phase 3 sounds j, v, w and x. We have practised writing these using the letter rhymes to help us. We have also thought about words that start with these initial sounds. The new ‘harder to read and spell words’ for this week were ‘as’ and ‘his’ as well as ‘buses’, ‘he’ and ‘she’. The children are really becoming confident in using their robot arms to segment and blend words for reading and writing.
In topic this week we have continued to learn about ‘people who help us’. We have enjoyed learning more about police officers and firefighters and how they can help to keep us safe. We also discussed which number we needed to call if we ever needed the emergency services to help us. We discussed people who help us at school. We could name so many people in school, such as the teachers, Mrs Stray, Lani, our lunch time staff, and Mr Edwards as our caretaker.
Key Points
- Please make sure your reading books and yellow diaries are in the trays outside the classroom each day. This will help the adults when checking books and to see if they need to be changed.
- Please bring back school library books on a Friday so that they can be changed for a new one.
- As it is getting colder please make sure your child has a coat in school every day and they are ready for all types of weather.
- Please make sure your child’s school uniform, coats, shoes and PE have their names in.
We hope you have a lovely week!
