What a busy week Class 1 have had.  The children have been very busy rehearsing for our EYFS Nativity, we have practised in our costumes this week and all the children look amazing.  Next week we will be performing to the Whole school, a lovely chance for siblings to see the performance.

In between rehearsals the children have revised all the sounds we have covered so far this term and have looked at the digraph ‘th’ – ‘Down the tower, across the tower,
then down the horse’s head to the hooves and over his back.’    –   th

Here is some guidance on how we teach handwriting in Class 1, we are at stage 1, as the children become more confident with the letter formations we move onto stage 1b. – stage 1 handwrite         stage 1b handwrite

In Maths we started the week with the Number block – ‘Terrible twos’ – https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08dmhm6/numberblocks-series-1-the-terrible-twos

We focused on describing and making  2 groups of 2 .  e.g. ‘I can see two pairs of socks /  I see two lots of feathers / I see 2 twos’   ‘Four is 2 twos’ ‘2 lots of feathers is 4’ etc.   This is early multiplication and the concept is called ‘unitising’ – handling a quantity (in this case 2) as a single unit, so rather than counting 1,2 , the children have started to count in the unit of 2.

The children enjoyed watching Mother Goose, it was lovely to see them all so engaged and joining in with singing / dancing / booing and cheering.

This week the children have continued with word time activities linked to all the sounds we have covered so far.      Word-Time-Book-5

The new sounds this week were ‘w’ and ‘z’.

For ‘w’ we say –  ‘Down, up, down, up the worm’

For ‘z’ we say – ‘Zig-zag-zig, down the zip.’

w    z

Here is a link to the words the children have been segmenting and blending – green words 1   and using to write simple sentences.

This week the children have looked at ‘v’ and ‘y’.

For ‘v’ we say – ‘down a wing,up a wing’

For ‘y’ we say – ‘Down a horn, up a horn and under the yak’s head.’

v           y

Each day we do word time activities (segmenting / blending / making CVC words) that link to all the sounds we have covered so far.  Here is a fun game that you may wish to print out and play with your child at home:

RWI-Set-1-Roll-It-Spell-It

Here are all the word time activity booklets that match the sounds covered so far:

Word-Time-Book-1 Word-Time-Book-2 Word-Time-Book-3 Word-Time-Book-4 Word-Time-Book-5