Ask me –
- To name the days of the week in order.
- To name the day before/after a given day.
- To spell the words ring, sing, wing, bang, hang, long, strong
- To tell you about things with wings.
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Our learning this week
Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.
Literacy focus
Story Writing
Our story writing prompt this week was “My castle….”
This week we have been learning about consonant blends and the end and beginning of words. This week’s sound was ng
Tricky words
This week we introduced two new words from block 2 – were and there. Please support your child at home with learning to both read and spell these words.
As requested at parent’s night please find below a list for reference with block one and block two words introduced so far
Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want
Block 2 so far- she we be all are they come some said one were there
Maths and numeracy focus
We have started to learn about time. This includes days of the week, months of the year, seasons, routines, and reading digital and analogue clocks. This week’s focus was days of the week and daily routines.
We continue to explore subtraction strategies, including using concrete materials, numberlines, and mental counting back.
Other areas of the curriculum
We have been learning about things with wings. we learned that a bat is a mammal which can fly, penguins have wings but can’t fly, and ostriches are the worlds largest birds and they can’t fly because they are too heavy,
In PE we continue to learn about balance , rolls ( teaching safe technique for forward rolls) and revising our throwing skills to develop shoulder pivot and strength.
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