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7 years ago
Posted on 16th Mar 2018 by

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Our focus story this week has been Goldilocks and the 3 Bears.  We have based our Literacy and Maths around this.

In Maths the children have looked at capacity, they worked out which bowl / cup belonged to each bear and explained why.  They then investigated the capacity of different containers to work out which one would hold the most / least.

The children have acted out the story and in Child Initiated time had the opportunity to use the story props independently.   They have sequenced the story and had a go at writing it out.   The children have also had a go at writing a letter of apology from Goldilocks to the 3 Bears.

Class 1 made porridge, they used their senses to describe what it looked like, smelt like and tasted like.  We added different ingredients to each bowl and the children were able to talk about whether it was sweet, sour etc.

Some children chose to use the chalks to make a map from Goldilocks house to the 3 Bear’s cottage.

7 years ago
Posted on 16th Mar 2018 by

Read Write Inc

The children have continued to revisit Set 1 sounds and used them to write words and sentences.  We are starting to see a lot more children have the confidence to write in Child initiated time and show good use of  their phonics knowledge to sound out and write words.

Some children have revisited igh – fly high, ow – blow the snow and oo – poo at the zoo.   For each trigraph/digraph the  children have written their own independent sentence with words containing the sound.

 

 

7 years ago
Posted on 08th Mar 2018 by

Shape

Over the last 2 weeks, we have looked at 2d and 3d shapes.

The children have looked at identifying and talking about the properties of the shapes.

They have made shape patterns, shape pictures, built with 3 d shapes, made straw nets and clixi 3d shapes. The children have enjoyed singing – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=guNdJ5MtX1A

Here are a few interactive games:

https://apps.mathlearningcenter.org/pattern-shapes/

https://uk.ixl.com/math/reception/classify-and-sort-by-shape

https://uk.ixl.com/math/reception/shape-patterns

https://uk.ixl.com/math/reception/name-the-shape

https://uk.ixl.com/math/reception/name-the-solid-shape

 

7 years ago
Posted on 08th Mar 2018 by

Read, write inc

This week we have continued to focus on Set 1 sounds and writing words containing these.

We have also revisited and written sentences with words containing the following digraphs:

ir – whirl and twirl

ee – what can you see?

ou – shout it out

oo – look at the book

7 years ago
Posted on 28th Feb 2018 by

Mardi Gras instruments

The Class have been looking at and sharing their instruments today. Some have used our junk modelling to make more.

7 years ago
Posted on 27th Feb 2018 by

Forest school and tennis session dates

Due to the bad weather we have taken the decision to postpone the start of Forest School to the 15th of March.  The children will still get the planned 5 sessions as we will continue after the Easter break.

We do however have another treat for the class.  This Friday and the following 2 Fridays the children in class 1 will take part in some tennis coaching sessions.  We will send your child’s PE kit home with them, so that they can come into school wearing their PE kit on a Friday am.  We will continue to have PE on a Monday afternoon, so please send their kit back in on a Monday morning.

Dates:

Thursday 1st March:   World Book Day – come to school dressed as a character

Friday 2nd March:  Tennis session 1/3:  Come to school in PE kit, bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

Friday 9th March: Tennis session 2/3:  Come to school in PE kit, bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

Thursday 15th March: Forest School Session 1/5:  Come to school in old clothes / wellies /boots.   Bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

Friday 16th March: Tennis session 3/3 :  Come to school in PE kit, bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

Thursday 22nd March: Forest School Session 2/5:  Come to school in old clothes / wellies /boots.   Bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

Thursday 29th March: Forest School Session 3/5:  Come to school in old clothes / wellies /boots.   Bring school clothes to change into afterwards.

 

 

7 years ago
Posted on 16th Feb 2018 by

Read, write inc

This week we have continued to focus on the sounds that we have already covered.  Everyday we work on segmenting and lending with Green Set 1 sounds -these can be viewed on the power point :   green words 1         or PDF: green words 1

Our focus sounds have been – th, ay and oy.

We have also practised our letter formations, I will attach these below for you to share with your children:  masdt