For being resilient.

We have had another busy week with the addition of a visit to Church, card-making for Mother's Day and some litter picking!  B ook focus :  we have been reading a rap this week: The Three Billy Goats Get Rough Rap.  Tomorrow, we are going to act it out.  Maths focus : sorting (same and different), doubles, odd and even numbers. PE focus : gymnastics, using apparatus to develop balance, control and coordination.  We are also working on our jumping so that we are landing safely on our feet, with bendy knees.  PSHCE/The Natural World focus:  caring for our world.  We have talked about other ways we can care for our world, using this brilliant book:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmNcToKvVZ4 . We were a clean up crew and went litter picking on the pavements around school.  We have daily  Phonics, handwriting, reading  and  writing  sessions. 

 For being resilient.

 B ook focus : Clean Up! by Nathan Bryon. Today, we have sequenced the story and retold it: this was tricky! Please remember to talk about characters and events when reading the Rhino Reader. There are some good questions at the back to support parents with this.  Maths focus : doubles, including using the stem sentences  ____ is made of __ and ____. ___ and ___ make ___. We used the words equal/the same when talking about the parts.  PE focus : gymnastics, using apparatus to develop balance, control and coordination.  We are also working on our jumping so that we are landing safely on our feet, with bendy knees.  PSHCE/The Natural World focus: caring for our world. We have been talking about rubbish and recycling. We sorted out rubbish into their materials.  We have daily  Phonics, handwriting, reading  and  writing  sessions. 

We have been learning lots of new sounds, digraphs and trigraphs.  The Rhino Reader books have a useful first page where your child practises the sounds that they know, ready to read them in the text.                                           

 B ook focus : Big Feelings by Alexandra Penfold Maths focus : composition of 7, including the 5 and a bit method "7 is made of 5 and 2". We used the 7 Little Ducks song to talk about parts to make 7 using the stem sentence "7 is made of ___ and ____" PE focus : gymnastics, using apparatus to develop balance, control and coordination.  RJ played a game of Stuck in the Mud because we didn't have our PE kits due to photos.  As a school, we won some Sports funding and so KS1 and EYFS had a multi-skills session on Friday.  PSCHE/People and Communities focus:  we had special visitors to talk to us about being an Optician and an Engineer. We also found out about Sherlock the Fire Investigation dog who has retired after 10 years. This  made us want to find out about more dogs who have special jobs, so we watched a couple of episodes of Dog Squad (Guide dog and Search and Rescue dog). We have daily  Phonics, handwriting, reading  and  writing ...

 For being resilient.

 We have had two special visitors this week: an Optician and an Engineer! As we have been learning about people who help us (and dogs who help us!), we invited some real people who help us into school! Thanks to Mrs Wearmouth and Mr Hollocks who came in to tell us about their jobs and how they help people. It was great to hear about their roles and we enjoyed looking at their equipment and listening to what they do. 

Today we went to St Dominic's for a sing song to the residents. We sang Bananas; Grandma, Grandma; Alice the Camel; 5 Cupcakes and Twinkle, Twinkle Little star (Jazzy version). One of the residents even joined in with the Grandma, Grandma song and did some 'shakey-shakey-shakey' dance moves with us! As we walked down, we also recapped some of the people who help us in our community as we spotted the Pharmacy, Health Centre, Opticians, Co Op and Post Office.

 For being resilient.

B ook focus : we have been making up our own stories this week! We thought about who was in our story, where they were, what happened/what was the problem and then the ending.  In RJ, so far we have had a story about a lion who got their tail stuck under a rock; an elephant who got stuck on a slide at the park and a princess who got trapped in the castle because the drawbridge wouldn't go down. Luckily, a knight came along with a long stick, dipped it in glue and pulled the bridge down. Like the rest of the school, we also read The Word Collector by Peter Reynolds.  We also enjoyed playing some word games this week such as Riddles, 10 Things and Headbandz. Maths focus : ordering numbers (staircase pattern) and talking about numbers that are more than and less than another number.  PE focus : gymnastics, using apparatus to develop balance, control and coordination.  PSCHE/People and Communities focus: know how we can help our friends and identify some people in o...