This week we have been thinking about the initial sounds of words. We thought carefully about the sound our names begin with and tried to find others in the class who had the same starting sound. We then played games to match and group the objects together by initial sound.

We continued to practise our rhyming words by making lists, listening to stories, identifying the odd one out and playing rhyming bingo and we worked hard to include lots of details into our black line drawings. 

We learnt the correct number formation for seven and eight using our number zoo animal stories to help us remember what they look like. We then tried to make our own giraffes (spotty seven) in our play.

In PE we travelled through space in our rockets with three astronauts allowed in each rocket. We raced and had to communicate with each other to change direction and alter our speed as needed. We developed our throwing and catching by trying to keep the ‘moon’ in the air and tried to throw shooting stars as far as we could through space.

We were super excited to get to work designing and building rockets out of junk materials. Thank you for all of your junk you have sent in. We will always gratefully put it to good use. The children have shown fantastic creativity and teamwork as they work hard to solve design challenges and support one another with cutting, sticking and balancing objects on top of each other. Next week we will continue to work on our designs.

We ended the week with ‘Fun Friday’ where we had some fun in the sun listening to a story in our garden and playing on the activity trail.

Have a lovely weekend in the sunshine. See you all next week!

Mrs Denholm x