Author: Roxanne Conniff

In Phonics we have continued to practise sounds from phase 3 and tricky words that the children find difficult. In maths we have been consolidating our knowledge of composition to 7 and investigating part-part whole relations. This week our mini project was Stories and Rhymes. We enjoyed reading The Gingerbread man amongst other traditional tales

This week we have focussed on recapping lots of phase 3 sounds and tricky words that the children needed to practise. In maths we were comparing quantities and using the language ‘more than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’ to compare and describe the relationship between numbers up to 8. We read Farmer Duck as part

This week we covered longer word in Phonics and in maths we focussed on counting and the value of 1 more than. In our topic we were still enjoying dinosaurs and fossils by looking at real fossils, found fossils in the sand, learnt about Mary Anning. We also made Valentines Day cards, love potions in

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

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 phonics sounds oo, oo, ar and or and learnt our 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

This week we started learning the new sounds -ai, -ee, -igh and -oa and tricky words I, the, pull, put and full from phase 3. In maths we worked on the purpose of counting and ordering quantities using representations of quantity along side numbers. As a part of our topic ‘Long Ago’ we have been

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

This week we worked on words ending with -s and tricky words be, we and me. In maths we went over the importance of careful counting and counting from larger sets, counting sounds, objects and actions and remembering the ‘stopping number’ tells us how many altogether. We really enjoyed performing our Christmas concert for everyone