Class Blog 15.1.26

Good afternoon.

This week Reception children have been learning the new sounds oo as in moon, oo as in hood and ar as in car. We have produced some amazing dictated sentences this week. Nursery phonics has been based around the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

We are working hard to make sure that we form all the letters c. d. g. a correctly starting and finishing in the right place.

In Maths This week, the children have consolidated their understanding of the composition of 5. Composing and decomposing numbers involves the children investigating part–part–whole relations, e.g. seeing that 5 can be made of 3 and 2 and 4 and 1 etc. The children will deepen their understanding of a ‘whole’ being made up of smaller parts through practical experience, in this case moving frogs from a log to a pool in a nursery rhyme. A key focus will be partitioning 5 (splitting it into parts) and considering the missing parts; the children will be encouraged to visualise numbers within 5 and to work out how many are hidden when they know the whole number in a set. Some children are having a go at larger numbers. We have also revisited 3D shapes and printed the sides to reinforce the language of faces.

Our English text is still Harry and the dinosaurs and we have described dinosaurs, written non fiction texts and taken our dinosaurs on an adventure around school.

In PHSE we have begun to talk about how to achieve a goal and have started by talking about things that we find a bit tricky to do at the moment. This includes respect for each other and an acknowledgement that we are all different as some children will have mastered a skill that others haven’t yet e g riding a bike or swimming.

In RE we have begun our unit on special places which will cover places of Worship. We started by the children saying a special place in their world.

We’ve enjoyed making flapjack today and other activities have included fake snow, making dinosaurs out of clay and painting trees in Winter. Not to mention climbing and riding bikes and building obstacle courses outside.

WE hope you have a lovely weekend.

Thank you

Mrs Mogford

 

 

 

 

Class Blog 9.1.26

Welcome back everyone. We hope you have had an enjoyable Christmas and New Year. The children have settled back into school and back into routine and the new starters are making friends and enjoying their time here. They are getting used to the classroom environment and are exploring everything on offer.

In phonics Reception children have been revisiting the phonemes ch,sh,ng,th,th and ai,ee,igh,oa. We have been reading and writing words and practising by playing games. Nursery have been listening to stories and listening for the initial sounds in words. I have sent some words to read to practise ai and ee.

Maths has been focused on recognising and naming and sorting 2D shapes. Reception children have been encouraged to say the properties of the shapes using mathematical language.

Our themes this half term are winter and dinosaurs and we made dinosaur bones out of salt dough which we will use to make an archaeological dig and discuss longer and shorter. We have read the book Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs and have taken part in some speaking and listening activities and writing activities based around the book.

In music we had a chance to play musical instruments and to notice that the shorter keys on the glockenspiel made a higher sound.

Our Christian value this term is friendship so their will be lots of discussions about how to be a good friend and what that means everyday in an age appropriate way.

Please can all children remember their book bags every day especially those with reading books so that they get the best learning co operation between home and school.

Have a lovely weekend .

Thanks

Mrs Mogford