We’ve had a wonderful day we’ve had celebrating World Book Day. Our classroom was full of wonderful book characters. Here’s some photos of the children enjoying the World Book Day challenges.
Thank you to all the parents/carers who came to our stay and learn session this afternoon. It was lovely to see our classroom so busy!
This week, we continued exploring our topic ‘Let Go’ and read the story The Hundred Decker Rocket. The story is about a girl called Ivy who sets off on a mission to space and meets some very messy aliens along the way. When her rocket breaks down, the aliens work together to fix it and each add their own deck.
The children enjoyed using their imaginations to design their own rocket decks and write a sentence about their creation.
Phonics
This week, the children have reviewed air, er and longer words that contain double letters.
Write these words on paper and ask your child to underline the double letters before reading.
hammer shimmer cannot chatter muffin
Help at home: Tricky words are really tricky! We’ve previously introduced a few fun games you can play at home to practice tricky words. Here’s another you could try.
Tricky word password
Write different tricky words on paper and stick them next to different doors around the house. Each time your child enters or leaves a room they must press and say the tricky word password.
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This we’ve been learning about the Hindu festival of Holi, the festival of colours. We explored four special colours and what they represent: yellow for knowledge and learning, blue to represent the gods, red for love, and green for nature and the start of spring. The children had lots of fun celebrating by getting messy and using their hands to create a bright, colourful piece of art.
Maths
This week, the children continued to develop their counting skills and their understanding that counting helps us find out how many there are. They practised the counting sequence and revisited the idea that the last number counted tells the total. The children also worked on counting out a set number of objects from a larger group and explored counting beyond 20, noticing the repeating number patterns. They reinforced the correct order of numbers to 10 and learned that each number is one more than the one before.
Yesterday, the children were challenged to work with a partner to create a staircase pattern using 11 towers of 5, thinking carefully about ‘5 and a bit’ when building their staircase.
