This week in English, started our new text, ‘One Day on our Blue Planet…in the Outback’ which takes us on a delightful journey through the Australian Outback. The children enjoyed looking at the images in the story and we worked on the skills of using adjectives in our sentences. The children also made predictions about where the joey will go on his adventure in the outback. We have encouraged the children to rehearse their sentence before recording and then checking to see if it makes sense.
In Maths we have been exploring different ways to total the same value with numbers up to 20. We have explored this practically through counting cubes and using the balance scales to check our answers. We then went on to record our findings as numbers sentences.
In Phonics we have spent time recapping all of the alternative graphemes that we have covered this half term. We worked on techniques to find out what graphemes were most appropriate when writing different words. We have also been reviewing our phonics knowledge and checking oru understanding by reading a range of real and nonsense words.
In our Topic lessons we have been combining our knowledge of continents and oceans by focusing on Australia and where this is in the world. We have begun to explore some of the animals that live in the outback and made comparisons to other animals in different parts of the world.
Points to note
- We will send home PE kit for washing at the end of next week
- We will need lots of small junk modelling to create structures next week
