Busy busy!

Another busy week.

In gymnastics we have been developing our gymnastic skills with help from Mr Richardson and his students.

We were very lucky last week to have a special visit from the Author Lizzie Finnigan. She shared one of her stories with us and we had fun acting out different scenes from the book.

In Maths we are continuing to consolidate our knowledge of doubles and we are exploring different methods to help us with addition.

In topic lessons, after exploring the concept of community and charity we have been discussing the difference between needs and wants. We really enjoyed our visit to the gate finding out all about how they help the local community.  Thank you very much to my three parent/career helpers. Despite the wet start, the children enjoyed their trip. They were excited to post their Santa letters on the way too!

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Learning fun

Here is a snapshot of our learning in November so far.  We have been…..

matching lower and upper case letters, and putting them in alphabetical order;

Practising our letter formation and developing our cutting skills;

Working together-developing our social skills;

Letting our imagination run free through role play games, whilst developing our taking and listening skills;

Consolidating our number knowledge and counting skills;

Developing our literacy skills;

using our imagination and creativity;

 

Developing our fine motor skills and building friendships;

Reading and writing with our friends-working and learning together;

Problem solving and constructing.

October

A  glance at some of our learning for October.

In Maths we have continued to work with Odd and Even numbers before moving on to simple partitioning of 2 digit numbers that will help us when we add and subtract to 20 and beyond. We have also been exploring the concept of surface area and how we can measure this.

In Literacy, we have been practising our new sounds and tricky words, through completing a variety of activities. We have also been consolidating and extending our knowledge of sounding and blending to help us read and write. Please remember the boys and girls use their phonics to help them spell, so they do not always produce words that are accurately spelt but are phonetically correct.  At this early stage it is also common for reversals of letters and sometimes whole words.

In writing I am feeling very proud of the children,  as many have progressed from writing a single sentence, to writing 3,4,5 and sometimes more, with growing independence!

In P.E with Mr Richardson the children have been developing a variety of skills in teams, rotating around different stations.

The children have also been producing Autumnal collages using our loose parts.

The children have also been developing important social skills through their play.