This week, we continued re-telling the traditional story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.
Children have loved orally rehearsing the story and have become more confident at using the story map to help re-tell all the key events.
Help at home: Ask your child to use the story map and to re-tell the story for you at home. We’re sure you’ll be impressed with their story telling skills!
Our word of the week was miniscule, which means something extremely small. We linked it to ‘mini’ and talked about minuscule objects like seeds and grains of sand.
Maths
In Maths, we’ve been doubling with the help of our Numberblock friends – Double Trouble!
Children developed their visualising skills by looking carefully at dot patterns and describing what they could ‘see’ in their minds. They used their subitising skills to recognise amounts without counting and explored the idea of equal groups.
Through practical resources, pictures and familiar patterns like dice and fingers, the children learned about doubling numbers up to 10.
In this week’s maths Rainbow Challenge, children demonstrated their knowledge of the composition of number 7. They investigated the numbers within 7 e.g. seeing that 7 can be made of 5 and 2.
Phonics
This week, we’ve reviewed the phase 3 sounds and we’ve practised reading:
- longer words (lightning, mammoth and earring)
- words with s in the middle /z/ (visit, poison)
- words ending –s (cheeps, cooks and boots)
- words with –es at end /z/ (foxes, fizzes)
Poetry Basket
Each week we learn a new poem and recite it every day. By saying the poem out loud, we can focus on the sounds and rhythm of each word or line, helping us to become better readers. This week’s poem is called Hungry Birdies.
Gardening
Reception made the most of the lovely spring weather by helping to weed and prepare some of our garden area. They worked together to clear spaces, making them ready for planting after the Easter holidays. Children were really keen to get involved and showed great care and enthusiasm. Watch this space for how you can help us next term…
Egg reminder!
It’s our annual Egg Rolling competition on Thursday 02 April (see email for further details). We would be grateful if your child could bring to school a decorated, hardboiled egg on that day, if they would like to take part in the competition. Thank you!