Literacy
This week, we’ve been reading the traditional tale Jack and the Beanstalk. We planted our own beans and talked about what a bean needs in order to grow. After planting our beans, we wrote a set of instructions about how to plant a bean.
Yesterday, we introduced the children to life cycles and talked about what a life cycle is.
What is a life cycle?
EB – small to big
BT – Something is a baby then turns into an adult.
RN – Baby chicks grow into a mummy and daddy.
SW – When babies are small they keep growing.
AG – Bugs start off as an egg and they get bigger and bigger.
RZ – They grow and grow and grow!
We watched a video about the life cycle of a bean and talked about the 4 stages.
Help at home: Can your child remember the life cycle of a bean?
Maths
This week, we consolidated our understanding of the composition of numbers by investigating the numbers within 7. We investigated the whole number using the part–part–whole model, e.g. 5 is a part. 2 is a part. 7 is the whole. We used cubes to show that 7 can be made by combining parts in different ways. We also played a game called Missing parts. Mrs Wood hid some cubes (a part) behind her back and we had to think about the missing part. This is something called partitioning (splitting the whole it into parts).
Help at home: Practise partitioning numbers up to 7 into two parts. You could use your toys, fruit or pencils.
Phonics
This week, we continued to read and write longer words including words ending in -ing.
Help at home: Practise writing these words: looking, marching, farming, waiting, morning, winking, singing. Don’t forget to use your phoneme fingers to segment!
What else have we been up to?
This week, our chilli challenges were linked to our focus story.
Poetry Picnic
Click here to watch this week’s poem.
Finally…
Thank you to all the parents/carers who came to watch our class assembly on Wednesday. We were blown away by how many of you turned up! We hope you enjoyed it.
REMINDER!
- Learning journey drop ins – Tuesday 26th & Thursday 28th March
9-9.30 & 3.15-3.45
Please return your sign up slip by Friday 22nd March.
