Weekly Round-up 17.1.25

Thank you to all those parents who are reading the Rhino Reader text with their child. We read it more than once to develop a deeper understanding, so remember to ask some questions about the text afterwards e.g about the characters or events in the story. 

Story focus: Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

Phonics focus: some of us have been reading words with new sounds and digraphs and some of us have been working on our segmenting (spelling).

Maths focus: ordering numbers; 1 more than and not 1 more than; know the difference between day and night.  

Our Maths curriculum is all about lots of repetition and small steps, which leads to children becoming more fluent in their skills. There is lots of research about this approach and is similar to the current thinking about rereading reading books to get that deeper understanding and confidence. 

Science focus: identify machines and their purpose.

PSHCE focus: know what is safe to put on my body. 

History focus: find out about a famous person from the past. We used pictures to find out about George Stephenson, the inventor of the first locomotive.

PE focus: moving in different ways and giving ideas to change rules for a game. 

This term, our theme for our Assemblies/Collective Worship is the value Honesty. We enjoyed listening to the story Finn's Little Fibs and noticed how little fibs can weigh us down and give us bad feelings.