Author: Roxanne Conniff

This week in Phonics we have reviewed Phase 3 sounds as needed and looked at longer words and tricky words they, all, by, my, are, sure and pure. In Maths we focussed on subitising skills in increasingly complex arrangements. We used our understanding of doubles and the children’s visualising skills using spatial language and hand gestures sub-groups. In other areas

This week in Phonics we covered longer words, words ending in -ing, compound words and tricky words he, we, me, be, was, you, they and all. In Maths we looked at long and short objects and counting beyond 10 and things that cannot be seen or moved in preparation for Year 1. We read Handa’s Surprise and wrote instructions on

This week the focus in Phonics was words with two or more digraphs, revisiting phase 3 sounds and tricky words; no, of, to, into, she, he and we. In Maths we thought about composition and sorting objects into groups according to their criteria (size, shape or colour). We read The Smartest Giant in Town and The Ginger Bread Man. The

This week covered er, air, double letters, longer words and tricky words; full, push, and, go, no and of. In Maths we focussed on subitising looking at doubles up to 5 and using manipulatives and pictorial representations to build on previous experiences with dice patterns and numbers on fingers. The story of the week was Jack and the Beanstalk and

This week in Phonics we revisited all phase 3 sounds and tricky words. In Maths we looked at the composition of 7 when it is split into two parts using the vocabulary part and whole. We also started our new topic ‘Ready, Steady Grow’ by reading The Gigantic Turnip and writing about the story in our books. We also investigated

This week we focussed on longer words such as carpet, chicken, bedroom and many more. The tricky words were are, sure, pure, into, she, he, we, me, be and of. In maths we compared quantities and focussed on numbers to 8 and where other numbers are in relation to each other. In other areas we listened to different types of

This week we covered the new phonemes air, er and double letters bb, rr, gg, dd, pp, ff, tt. We learnt the new tricky words are, sure and pure. In maths the children focussed on the principles of counting, number formation, exploring 5 and a bit to make numbers larger than 5 and 1 more and 1 less up to

This week in phonics we learnt the sounds ur, ow, oi and ear, we also learnt some new tricky words my, by and all. In maths we have been learning about more and fewer and comparing sets of objects using new terminology we have learnt. This week we have read the book ‘Peepo!’ by Alan and Janet Ahlberg we enjoyed

This week we covered the sounds ai, ee igh and oa and we revised our tricky words. We were very excited to see that a visitor had been in the classroom! The tiger from the story The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr had visited us and left some paw prints! The children then enjoyed completing challenges that

This week we retold the Christmas Story, we learnt about friendship in RE and we used our writing and phonemic skills to write letters to Santa! In Maths we focussed on the positioning of numbers to 5, understanding sequencing and understanding that each number has a value of one more. On Thursday we had lots of fun at our Christmas