Literacy
This week we read lots of seaside poems collected by Jill Bennett. We used the illustrations in the book to help us think about things we might only see at the seaside. We compared two different environments (city and seaside) by looking are various pictures.
Maypole
The Maypole practising has started! For many years, the Reception class have opened the Summer Fair by performing a Maypole dance. We’re super excited to show off our amazing skipping skills on Friday 04 July.
Maths
We’ve been deepening our understanding of mathematical relationships within numbers to 10. We’ve enjoyed using different resources to help demonstrate these key skills:
- assembling a whole object from different parts
- making a whole number from 2 parts
- splitting some numbers into 2 groups that each have an equal amount
- recognising that 2 equal groups can make a double, e.g. double 3 is 6 altogether
- understanding that double patterns are even; they have ‘flat tops’ because they are made of 2 equal groups
- understanding that odd numbers cannot be split into 2 equal groups; they’re not doubles, they have an ‘odd block’/’odd one out’
Zog Day
Yesterday, we watched Julia Donaldson read Zog and Zog and the Flying Doctors. We also got to watch how to draw a loveable dragon by Axel Scheffler. We got our orange pens ready and had a go at drawing our own Zogs!
Poetry Picnic
This week’s poem is called Thunderstorm. We had lots of fun using prosody when reciting this poem.
Reminders
- Reception to Year 1 Zoom meeting on Monday at 6pm
- Class photo day on Thursday