Last Week

This week we learned the sound ‘ai’ for train.

In maths we talked about number block 5, made fruit kebabs with 5 fruits and thought about the composition of 5.

We have continued making our environment pictures, cutting out animals and thinking about who lives where!

Next Week

Phonics next week, our sound is: “ee for tree”

Now we are beginning to look solely at digraphs, we will only have one focus sound a week. We will also be consolidating all the previous sounds we have learned to ensure they are embedded.

Maths this week will focus on the “Hungarian number pattern”- this is the way numbers are presented/visualised on a dice. Helping with subitising skills.

Our shared reader this week will be: Sock Shopping

EYFS Learning

In EAD: We will finish our animal collages.

In UTW: We continue our focus on environments around the world. Looking at temperature and thermometers.

In Literacy: Finishing our storyboards and reading a new book “One Snowy Night”!

PE: More gymnastics and ball skills outside.

NEW CLASS READING JOURNAL

To help further encourage our children to read for pleasure, we now have a shared class journal, where children can each design a page/write a review for the book they enjoy the most at home.

Each week, a new child will take the book home from Monday through to Sunday of that week to complete their page.

At home, with your support, your child can draw pictures and write a few simple words about their chosen book, which allows us a big collection of recommended books for us all to look at. An example page has been added to the main class page where you can find the usual links, so if you need some guidance on how to make your page please do take a look.

It is important that where possible you do not write the words/sentences for your child in the book. The focus is that we can all look at the book and see our own work reflected. For support on how to support your child’s writing please look at the example page with guidance too. Some children will be able to write a short caption, some a sentence and some a word or two depending on where they are at- all of these are fine and encouraged.