Next week, we are learning...
Literacy– Next week,
we will continue to read and write captions with a focus on finger spaces. We
will be practising writing captions using finger spaces between each word. We
will be reading the story ‘The Odd Egg’ and writing predictions of how we think
the ending of the story will go.
Maths– Next
week, we will be focusing on numbers 6,7 and 8. We will be matching and
creating representations of these numbers and then focusing on the composition
of 6,7,8 using dominoes and part-whole models.
Phonics– Next
week, we will continuing Phase 3 of our Phonics scheme ‘Unlocking Letters and
Sounds’. We will be learning the new sounds ure and er. We will also be learning
new CEW ‘her’.
Topic/UTW– We will
be taking part in the RSPB’s Big School’s Birdwatch through an enrichment
morning with Oak and Ash class. We will be making bird feeders, learning about
British birds and going bird watching in the school grounds.
This week, we have been learning…
UTW~ Polar Regions
We located the Polar regions on our class map and learnt about how these parts of the world have cold climates. We talked about the animals that live there and how people visit there and live there. We engaged in a variety of themed activities in our provision to learn more including a polar animals number hunt, balancing penguins on a wobbly iceberg, ice exploration and some snow flake painting.
Literacy
We read the story Poles Apart all about a penguin family who got lost and ended up in the Arctic but finds their way home travelling across the world with a friendly polar bear. We discovered a letter from the penguins explaining they had left their egg when travellin* through England and asked the Acorns to take care of it. We were very excited and spent lots of time thinking about how to care for it. We drew what we thought the baby penguin will look like and wrote our predictions.
Art
We made our own colony of penguins! We practised our scissor skills by drawing outlines and cutting around them and then assembling them with glue. We loved how original they are were and so much creativity and stickability used!