Our topic for this half term is Marvellous Machines so this week we’ve started to learn about robots. Children have been creative in our junk modelling area designing and creating their own robots. Others have developed their scissor skills with a robot sticking activity. In Science we’ve learnt about magnets and introduced the terms magnetic, non-magnetic, poles, attract and repel. Children have explored magnets and iron filings in provision. Together we’ve learnt about Children in Need and have enjoyed the cake sale and dressing up day in order to raise money for the charity. In Phonics we’ve learnt the sound j as well as some new digraphs: ff, ll and ss. The children have been reading short sentences including a bell in a bed and a red sock. Our tricky words this week are: put, pull, full, as. Children have been practising writing their name as their morning job. One of our books this week was called “No-bot the Robot” and children loved retelling story and then writing cvc words on a wanted poster to help No-bot find his bottom! Maths has focussed on comparison. Children were encouraged to compare the number of objects in 2 sets by matching them 1:1. We have also reinforced key vocabulary of “more than”, “fewer than” and “equal to”.
