Acorn Class 12th January – 16th January

Next Week:

Literacy– Next week we will be exploring our new text ‘The Odd Egg’ by Emily Gravett. We will be using our story friends to sequence and talk about the events of the story as well as learning new vocabulary.

Phonics- Next week, we will be beginning our Phase 3 Mastery. We will be revisiting how to recognise and say the sounds j, v, x, w as well as developing our segmenting to read skills and our use of whiteboard time. We will also be practicing our common exception words we have learnt so far and revisiting the CEW ‘me’.

Maths –Next week we will be continuing our ‘Alive in 5’ topic. We will be exploring how to find one less within 5, our number bonds to 5 as well as conceptual subitising.

Topic/UTW– Next week we will learning about African animals and comparing hot climates to cold climates!

This week we have been learning…

Maths – This week we have been subitising, representing and finding one more within 5.

Literacy – The children have been so enthusiastic with our text ‘Poles Apart’ by Jeanne Willis and have been writing some incredible sentences about different parts of the story!

UTW/Topic – This week we have been learning about the Polar regions, the animals that live there. We have created magical wax resist snowflake paintings, explored how to melt ice and waddled like penguins carrying eggs!

Phonics- This week we have finalised our Phase 3 Phonics. We have been learning how to recognise and say the sounds ure and er as well as developing our segmenting to read skills and our use of whiteboard time. We will also learnt the CEW ‘her’.