Another week has flown! It\u2019s hard to believe we\u2019ve only been back three weeks \u2013 the children have settled really well into the school routine.<\/p>\n
This week we\u2019ve continued with our phonics, learning t<\/em> and i<\/em> and starting to blend the sounds covered so far to make short words. \u00a0We\u2019ve also started looking at the Oxford Reading Tree characters, starting with Kipper, who we found out is actually called Christopher!<\/p>\n We\u2019re doing a lot of work with plasticine to develop our fine motor skills, linking it to emotions and our feelings. This week we\u2019ve made surprised and angry faces and have spoken about times we felt like this.<\/p>\n In numeracy we\u2019re continuing to focus on numbers to 10, ensuring we have the correct formation and using the language before, after and one more. This morning we had great fun outside on a number hunt.<\/p>\n We\u2019re continuing our stickman topic, looking at the landscape in the stickman and using lots of different materials to create our own landscape scene. We also looked at the view from outside the classroom and talked about how the colours and detail fade the further away they are. We then painted our background, gradually going from dark to light, and drew and cut out trees \u2013 one that is here, one that is near and one that is far \u2013 and added leaves and branches with oil pastels. The next job is to add stick frames.<\/p>\n In other news, in our bread experiment we are excited to see mould growing on the bread we touched with our dirty hands! We\u2019ll continue to watch and share more next week. We\u2019ve also had a robin visiting the table outside the classroom, and on Wednesday he decided to come into the classroom for a play while the children were at lunch!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another week has flown! It\u2019s hard to believe we\u2019ve only been back three weeks \u2013 the children have settled really well into the school routine. This week we\u2019ve continued with our phonics, learning t and i and starting to blend the sounds covered so far to make short words. \u00a0We\u2019ve also started looking at the … Continue reading Another busy week in P2\/1!<\/span>