This week our focus book has been Walking through the jungle by Julie Lacome.
Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off auto play – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.This repeating story has been great for re-telling and exploring different ‘action words’: walking, running, leaping, swinging, creeping and wading.
In our writing, we’ve been re-telling parts of the story in our own words.
This week, our ‘word of the week’ is leaping – to jump quickly or suddenly a long way.
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We have a new morning activity. After we’ve put our things away, found our names and chosen our dinner, we are writing about an interesting picture. We have been showing some spectacular independent writing. We are getting so confident to write on our own. Check out some of our writing below!
Design and Technology; using a tool
We’ve continued working on the parts we are going to use for our ‘bug hotel’. We’ve been carefully using hand drills to create holes in wood, holding the tool firmly in place and using our strength to wind the handle.
We kept safe by wearing our safety goggles.
Maths; composing 5
In Maths, we’ve been composing 5 and using the song ‘5 little kittens’ to explore the parts that make the whole number. These are also called number bonds.
We’ve been using full sentences to explain what we can see on our fingers, as we move through the song:
“There are three kittens on the bed, there are two kittens under the bed, there are five kittens altogether”
In our partner work, the children had 5 counters. Taking turns, they hid some of the counters behind their back and their partner had to guess how many it was by looking at how many they could see!
Help at home– Can you play this game at home?
Encourage your child to repeat the below phrases.
5 is made of ____ and ____.
____ and ____ make 5.
Please email us a quote from your child or a photo when playing the game.
Phonics
Summer 1 week 3 has focused on phase 4 words with short vowels and longer words. We’ve learnt the tricky words; were, here, little, says
Help at home- Please continue to work through the weekly learn at home phonics sheets. We’ll continue to send these home each Friday.
Poetry Picnic
One week in every half term, we focus on a traditional nursery rhyme. This week we’ve been reciting Sing a song of sixpence.
Watch us sing the nursery rhyme here!
Art; using and representing nature
We’ve worked on collaborative and independent art pieces this week.
We used large leaves to print a large-scale jungle scene, before adding our jungle animal drawings.
We used fine paintbrushes and watercolours to create some observational paintings of plants.
Reminders and Dates
