This week our learning has been focused around the question “What makes me a me?”, our book of the week has been “Super Dupa You” which is also our class book for this half-term. We have learnt about different body parts and that we have 5 senses – can your child remember what they are? Children have had the opportunity to paint self-portraits using mirrors to add their unique features. The children have continued to name primary colours and have been experimenting mixing them to see which secondary colour they make. Children have had the opportunity to make name collages and to draw around their foot with a friend to then measure with cubes to see who has the longest/shortest foot. Children have had the opportunity to use pattern tracing sheets to practise their pencil control and have accessed a fine motor game called “Feed the Bird” to strengthen their funky finger.
Reception children have been taught the first 5 RWI sounds ‘m’, ‘a’, ‘s’, ‘d’ and ‘t’. We have also continued to familiarise ourselves with the silent signals including "My turn your turn," "Team stop," "Turn to your partner" and "1..2..3." We use these within our daily learning throughout each day too. In Maths, we have been learning to subitise amounts to 3 (saying how many we see without counting), describing spatial patterns with 3 dots, representing quantities on our fingers in different ways and identifying sub-groups of 1, 2 and 3 within larger arrangements. Year 1 children have been practising our letter formation in Literacy ensuring we start and finish in the correct place – we will be continuing with this over the coming weeks. We have also been practising reading and writing tricky red words. In maths, we have been practising counting within 100 in different ways. We have completed our pre-unit assessment for Science and Geography. In our first Geography lesson we have learnt that there are four countries in the United Kingdom. We watched videos exploring the countries and have been able to identify each country on a map. Our Year 1 children accessed their first Computing lesson of the year too which was very exciting! We started by thinking about what the word ‘technology’ means. We then explored some different examples of technology that can be found within our classrooms such as computer, laptop, pencil, phone, pencil sharpener and scissors. We considered the purpose of each of these examples of technology using the stem sentences “It helps us to…”. Our first activity was to sort the images of different items into two groups ‘technology’ and ‘not technology’. As a class we were then shown pictures of different technology and we had to match them to the correct explanation of how that technology helps us.
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