PRE-RECEPTION
The children have enjoyed telling us stories about their fabulous Christmas holidays. We also welcomed six new additions to Pre-Reception; we are sure they will be very much looked after and welcomed by their class friends. This week has been a consolidation week for both Maths and Phonics. We have been reading stories about Paddington Bear’s adventures to begin our new topic. We have looked at where we find Peru on our world map. Next week we will commence with our topic ‘Ticket Around the World’ with a focus on Japan.
LITERACY
In our Literacy lessons, we will be reading ‘Peach Boy and Other Japanese Children’s Stories.’ This ties in with our Jigsaw PSHE learning on ‘Dreams and Goals’ and taking on new challenges in small steps.
MATHS
In Maths, we will start to subitise up to three objects. We will do lots of work on this over the course of the year as it is a skill that helps children build images for numbers, visualise, and learn number facts.
PHONICS
In Phonics, we will learn how to pronounce the sound ‘d’. We will also start to encourage the children to listen carefully to the start of words and see if they can identify the initial sound – even if it is not the focus sound of the week.
RECEPTION
What a fantastic first week back!
Understanding the World
This term we introduced our new topic ‘Ticket around the World’. We launched the topic by sharing the children’s homework. The children took it in turns to proudly share their posters and knowledge of the countries they had visited. It was lovely to see the children take such pride and excitement in sharing their work. We then explored maps, learning that maps can be used for varied reasons. We used maps of the school to navigate our way around the schoo, using the key to identify the buildings.
Later in the week we explored the world map, focusing on learning about the United Kingdom. We learnt about the countries that make up the United Kingdom. We also explored weather and the wildlife in the United Kingdom.
Phonics
This week we started Phase 3 in Little Wandle. We introduced the phonemes ‘ai’,’ ee,’ ‘igh.’ and ‘oa.’ In class we practised saying the sounds, blending the sounds together to read words, for example ‘l-igh-t.’ We then practised letter formation by writing out the letters cursively. We continued to read short and write short captions, for example ‘I can see a web up high.’
Maths
This term, we started our new topic ‘Alive in 5’, explored matching, subitising, representing numbers within 5 and learnt the concept of ‘altogether’ using five frames.
Expressive arts and design
Linked to our learning in Understanding the World, the children have been busy making and designing maps. Using a variety of resources, the children made Union Jack flags.
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