Read Write inc 

This week the children have looked at split diagraphs – i-e – Nice Smile and o-e – Phone Home.

i-e               o-e

Maths

The children have continued to look at measures, they have found all sorts of ways to measure various objects!   They also found out that the tallest children don’t always have the smallest feet.

Read Write inc, Phonics

The children have looked at ‘ea’ – a cup of tea, ‘oi’ – spoil the boy and ‘a-e’ – make a cake.   We discussed what a spilt digraph is – special friends that need to split up but still hold hands behind their backs.

ea      oi      a-e

Literacy

Our story this week and for the next few weeks is Jack and the Beanstalk.  The children have focussed on how the story develops and how the characters are feeling.

The children have planted their own ‘magic’ beans and have discussed what a ‘bean’ needs to be able to grew healthily.  We have set up an experiment to see what happens if a bean has sun but no water, no sun and water, sun and water.  The children have made predictions about what they think will happen.

Maths

This week we have concentrated on measures, comparing height and length.  A beanstalk appeared in  the classroom and the children needed to work out how to measure it.  They came up with lots of different ideas – ‘measure it with cubes, then count how many’, pencils, feet, hands etc.  They discovered that Jack’s footprints are smaller than the Giant’s feet, so he had a higher number.

We have been very busy practising our class celebration song and the children are all looking forward to performing it next Friday morning.

Read Write inc

This week the children have looked at the digraph – ‘ou’, Shout it out.

ou

They have continued to do word time activities looked to all the sounds covered so far. Some children have written sentences based on short Dittys that they have read as a group and some children have done sentence writing based on the Green Book story ‘The Spell’.

Literacy

As a class we are reading ‘Room on a Broom’, the children have enjoyed joining in with the story and spotting the rhyming words.  The home corner has been turned into a potion making area.  We will continue with this story next week and the children will focus on character descriptions and writing potion recipes.

Maths

This week the children have looked at ’10’.  At the beginning of the week the children explored how 9 add 1 is 10.  10 ones are the same as one 10 / one 10 is the same as 10 ones.

We linked 10 to our class story and decided that the witch needed 10 ingredients to make a new broom.  The children explored how many more ingredients the witch needed in her cauldron to make 10 –

‘she needs 5 more because 5 add 5 equals 10’ – Benji

‘we can also say double 5 makes 10’ – Theo

‘I know she needs need 4 more because 10 takeaway 6 leaves 4’ – Lorcan

‘She needs one more ingredient because she only has 9, 9 add 1 ,more equals 10’ – Holly

Read Write Inc

This week the children have looked at the trigraph air – ‘That’s not fair’  and the digraph ir – ‘whirl and twirl’

air         ir

Some children have started to read Green, Read Write inc books.  These books reinforce the sounds and words that we have covered so far, the children also use them as a basis for their sentence writing.  The children on Green books will bring home a copy of the book to share and practise reading at home.  I will change the book on a weekly basis.

Some children have read short ditties also based on sounds and words they have covered so far, each ditty will be added into the plastic wallet that is in your child’s book bag, so they can share and practise it at home.

All children have completed word time activities, where they have to build up words using the sounds taught.

Reading and Writing

The children have written shopping lists and recipes to help Mr Wolf make his pancakes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kBV1sqq5DM

Lots of children have chosen to write their own stories in their busy books, it is so wonderful to see the children choosing write during child initiated time.

Maths

We started the week by watching – https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6lpx0s

This week the children have concentrated on finding number facts related to the number 9.  They looked at how 8 add 1 more equals 0 and 8 is one less than 9.  The children then explored the parts of 9 practically and used the sentence – 9 is the whole, 8 is a part and 1 is a part, 8 add 1 equals 9 etc.

The children found the addition and subtraction facts for 9 with the help of counting Caterpillar.  Sometimes Counting Caterpillar makes mistakes by having the wrong amounts and the children in class 1 are very good at explaining what he needs to do and why his maths sentence is wrong.