S tory focus : Cottonwool Colin by Jeanne Willis and The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright.  Literacy focus : we have daily Phonics and handwriting sessions.  We now have a Literacy session where we discuss a picture, compose sentences and then write them.  We also have individual reading sessions, practising our blue Phonics book or reading books.  Maths focus:  doubles; composition (including odds and evens); counting  We noticed that some Numberblocks have a flat, even top and that some have and odd block. We could also see doubles within some Numberblocks (even numbers).  PE focus : we have started a new unit called Crawl, Climb, Collect. We have to practise our bear crawls which is fantastic for developing our core strength, as well as for crossing the midline.  Understanding the World focus: baby animals (linked to Spring) and animal classification/grouping. We had a special visitor - Ziggy the Bearded Dragon - which was a lovely starting point ...

 Today, we continued our exploration of using the computers to make sound and music.  We placed squares onto a chart creating different tones and pitch.  We also chose which group of the orchestra played the music - woodwind, percussion or strings. We challenged ourselves to write our names and see what they sound like!

 On Firday I had the pleasure of taking 7 girls from our netball team to a tournament at Littlegarth!   I cannot even begin to tell you how proud I am of them.  We played a total of 6 games.  They started off with a 6-0 loss on their first game, but this just made them more determined and they really worked hard as a team to improve and had some great games.  They worked extremely well together and their defending was incredible, and team spirit a joy to watch.  They all listened to any feedback given to them, and took it on board to better all of their further games. They were all so very respectful, not just to each other but to all the other teams they played as well as all the adults that they came in contact with.   It was an absolute pleasure to spend the morning with these lovely girls.   We did not come in the top 3 teams, but they should all be super proud of their achievements, as am I!  Mrs Connelly

 Our text this week is 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch'.    By the end of next week, we are going to be writing instructions for getting lunch to Mr Grinling in the lighthouse. After reading and exploring the text yesterday, today we used role play to 'act out' parts of the story.  We 'performed' different instructions in small groups, orally retelling using imperative verbs and key vocabulary whilst also 'acting'.

    On Wednesday, we explored recognising when groups are equal or unequal.  We practised looking at groups, splitting numbers into groups and then recognising if they were equal. On Thursday, this learning was extended into adding equal groups. We came up with a checklist to ensure our counting was accurate. 1.Check the groups are equal.  2. How many equal groups? 3. How many in each group? 4. Count! (in 2s, 5s or 10s)