We looked at the new sounds -air and -er and read words with double letters such as -bb, -rr and -gg and learnt the new tricky words are, sure and pure, as well as recapping on some previous sounds and tricky words. In maths we focussed on comparison work and using the vocabulary quantity, more
Author: Roxanne Conniff
This week we continued to learn phase 3 sounds -ur, -ow, -oi and -ear and tricky words my, by and all. In maths we have been exploring ways to represent numbers using the die pattern. We also secured our knowledge of numbers that make 5 and used double dice frames to begin to explore 6
This week we have continued learning our phase 3 sounds -oo, -oo, -ar and -or and new tricky words was, you and they. In maths we thought about the composition of numbers which involved investigating the part-part whole relations and the missing parts. In topic we made observations about objects and artefacts from the past
This week we started our phase 3 sounds which were -ai, -ee, -igh and -oa as well as tricky words that we needed to practise! In maths we drew attention to the purpose of counting, to find out how many and understanding that the position of number in a sequence does not change. We started
Happy New Year! We have loved welcoming the children back this week and have had a very packed first week of the new year. In Phonics we went over any gaps for phase 2 and tricky words, in maths the children used their perceptual subitising skills moving from dots to dice arrangements, noticing sub-groups in
This week has been full of festive fun! We have enjoyed playing various phonics and maths games while recapping on lots of learning we have done so far. We have listened to the Christmas story with lots of opportunities to retell the story using puppets and we then drew the scene from the Christmas story
We had lots of fun performing our Christmas concert for everyone. Thank you all for coming!
This week we worked on words ending with -s and -s that sounds like -z and tricky words be, we and me. In maths we recapped comparison and used the language more than and fewer than to describe objects. We wrote Christmas cards, learnt about Christmas jumper day and started our mini topic Puppets and
This week we we learnt the sounds -sh, -th, -ng and -nk as well as tricky words she, push, he, and of. In maths we drew attention to the purpose of counting, concept of 1:1 correspondence and developing their understanding of the ‘stopping number’ being the last number that we stop at when counting. In
This week we learnt the sounds -z, -zz, -qu, plurals with -s and -ch and tricky words no, go, to and into. In maths we consolidated our knowledge of part and whole numbers by looking at the composition of three, four and five practically. In other areas we completed some science experiments using different vehicles