Our story of the week this week was ‘’The Three Little Pigs”. We have enjoyed listening to and joining in with the favourite phrases throughout the week as part of Talk through Stories learning. The children are experts at identifying the characters and the problem in stories and are perfecting their expressions in freeze-frames when given a situation from the story! We have listened to an alternative version of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and we looked at how they were same and different. We identified that they were the same because there were still the same characters, the same problem, the pigs made houses of straw, stick and brick in both books. The differences we identified in the alternative version were that the pigs had names, that the first little pig went to the second little pigs stick house before they both went to the brick house, the wolf burnt his bottom on the pot of boiling water but managed to escape and that the pigs built a new big brick house so they could all live together! Our learning activities have included; using puppets in the small world area to retell the story, writing speech bubbles to show what the characters might say in the story, creating box house models and in the funky fingers area we have been using tweezers or our thumb and index fingers to move matchsticks to create different houses! We could also name different materials, we know a house is usually made of bricks and know that a house needs to be strong and waterproof. We have also enjoyed playing a game called "Run, run as fast as you could...". In Literacy, our Year 1 children have spent the week composing and holding sentences to describe several characters from ‘Snow White in New York’. We have really focused on ensuring our sentences have letters formed correctly, capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. The children have successfully included the prefix ‘un’ in sentences about the wicked Stepmother! On Thursday we practised re-reading our sentences before reading them aloud to our peers! In Maths, Reception children started the week recapping previous learning on balance scales and using the language heavier, lighter, heaviest and lightest. Throughout the rest of the week we revisited the principles of counting, practised counting aloud and used statements such as ‘5 and 1 more makes 6 altogether’ to describe the ‘5 and a bit’ composition of numbers 6-8. We have investigated the ‘1 more/1 less’ pattern of the base-10 counting system and ordered numbers between 1 and 10, noticing the ‘5 and a bit’ structure. Our Year 1 children started the week investigating tetromino and pentomino arrangements. We know a tetromino arrangement is made up of 4 squares and a pentomino arrangement is made up of 5 squares. Next, we investigated ways that four cubes can be composed into different 3D models. We have explored, discussed and compared 3D shapes and identified the 2D shapes within 3D shapes. In Science, we named a variety of common animals including; pets, wild animals, farm animals and woodland animals.
In PSHE, we have looked at the question ‘Why are fruit and vegetables food for me?’ as part of our learning on being able to talk about things that help keep us healthy. We have learnt; that some foods are food for us and some are unhealthy for our body and teeth, fruit and vegetables have vitamins that our body needs to be healthy and we named different fruit and vegetables and some foods that are sweet and have lots of sugar in and we know these are bad for our teeth.
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