Maths
Our focus this week has been looking at parts and the whole of objects. We have been using a variety of objects to do this. For example, wheels are parts of a car that helps to make the whole. Our arms and legs are parts of our body that makes up us (the whole).
We have also been completing jigsaws this week and discussing how the pieces are the parts and the completed jigsaw is the whole.
Help at home: by looking at objects and discussing the parts and the whole.
This foundation then helps the children when partitioning numbers. For example, 5 is the whole and it is made up of parts 1 and 4, 2 and 3, 5 and 0.
Literacy led learning
This week we have been reading the book Night Monkey Day Monkey by Julia Donaldson. We have discussed that she has written lots of other books that we have read and that they often have rhyming words in them.
In the book, the monkeys discuss their shadows. This inspired the children to make different shadows and draw around them.
The book has a strong link with our word of the week- nocturnal. We have been discussing what that word means and what we normally do at different times of the day. For example, having breakfast in the morning and going to bed at nighttime.
The children have enjoyed making animal shelters for nocturnal animals in our creative area.
They also enjoyed making their own shelter using the parachute.
Help at home: by practicing reading the tricky words we have learnt so far:
is, I, the, as, and, has, his, her, go, no
Remember: to send the children to school with hats and gloves, as it is getting colder.
