Weekly Round-Up 5.12.24

It's finally December! At school, we have a class Advent calendar full of jokes and songs. 

Story Focus: My Hair by Hannah Lee. 

Phonics focus: lots of reading and spelling. Remember that digraphs ck, ll, ff, ss usually come at the end of words (never at the beginning!).  We are impressed with how the writing skills are coming along, with lots of us getting the hang of 'holding a sentence/phrase' and writing it down. We need lots of handwriting practise, as this reduces the cognitive load: we have to think about so many things when we write!

Maths focus: shapes and positional language. We went on shape hunts and pressed shapes into dough. We played a positional language game, describing where a person/George was. We weren't allowed to point or say "there". We came up with on, in, under, next to, in between, behind, in front of, 

PSHCE focus: recognising similarities and differences amongst homes. RJ liked looking at each other's homes on the google map! We read a good book which sparked conversation about flats, houses, houseboats, caravans, bungalows and farms. 

Science focus: know that there are other planets in our solar system. 

Art focus: Mrs Bilbesi taught us a technique called Sgraffito (scratching). 

PE focus: following instructions to play games. We played  Plant the Flowers with some added rules. 

COOL Time (Choosing Our Own Learning): this is where we play and interact with each other, taking turns and forming relationships. We are choosing the resources we need and adults are showing us how to use them. We need to be careful with our things. 

Where is George? What words can we use to describe where he is?