This week our learning has been focused around the question “What is Autumn?”. Our book of the week was “Hello Autumn”. The children know that the season we are in is Autumn and that The autumn months are September, October and November. We have learnt that in Autumn it turns colder and rains more than in Summer. The children know that the leaves change and fall from trees – we have described some of the leaves as ruby red and golden yellow! From our book we have discussed the meaning of the following words and tried to use them in sentences: stumbled, beamed and hollered. Can your child remember what they mean? Our learning activities this week have included; exploring our Autumn objects (leaves, conkers, acorns), leaf printing in the dough, painting Autumnal trees (focus on mixing Autumn colours), using our Tommy thumbs and Peter pointer fingers to pick the small sequin leaves off of a tray in a race against the timer and we have been drawing pictures about what we can see in Autumn. We have also been introduced to the poem ‘Cake-o-saurus’ – watch out for a copy being sent home over the coming week. You can talk about the poem and encourage your child to join in with it where they can. This should be an enjoyable activity! Reception children continue to work in RWI groups to learn new sounds – this week the children have been taught ‘c’., ‘k’, ‘u’ and ‘b’. Some children continue to use magnetic boards to learn to blend and some children will be moving on to reading green word cards next week! In Maths, the children have been building on their subitising skills – subitising auditory patterns and dot arrangements to 4. They have also been making their own patterns of 4 and describing the arrangements using spatial language. Year 1 have continued to practise letter formation ensuring they are formed correctly, starting and finishing in the correct place. They are getting really confident at writing the tricky red words we have been practising. In Maths, we have continued to count within 100 with a focus on counting backwards! The children have also been counting forwards and making groups of 10 to work out how many counting straws they have. In Science, we have continued to identify and name a variety of everyday materials. We then discussed different properties of a material and how a material is chosen for an object based on its properties. We discussed how it would be no good for wellies to be made from paper as it was not waterproof and all our feet would get wet and how it would be no could for reading glasses to be made from wood as we would not be able to see through them! We then learnt the names of key properties and what these key properties meant using MTYT. Our activity was to sort the bag of objects into the sorting circles based on the properties in each sorting circle. In Music, we started by completing a baseline quiz we have to say whether the notes played were the same length, shorter or longer. Next we had to find and keep a steady beat by moving our bodies in different ways and clap out long and short rhythmic patterns. We warmed our faces up by scrunching them up small and making them as big as possible. Then we warmed our voices using high and low pitches. We found the beat to the song and finally began learning the first verse of the song ‘Find the Beat’. We have also recapped the capital cities of the United Kingdom and the surrounding seas.
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