Life Cycles - The Very Hungry Caterpillar and this weeks learning

Our theme this week was life cycles and we have focused on the question ‘How does it grow and change?’. We started the week listening carefully to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle. Some of our provision enhancements included; ordering the life cycle pictures of different animals, creating our own food diaries and dominoes to make a domino rally in our funky fingers tray! Our Reception children have also enjoyed playing the Caterpillar track game with their friends - they have practised turn-taking, recognising numbers, counting and comparing more/fewer!

​Reception children have been working hard with their morning work to write ‘I can see’ sentences about their picture stimulus – they are really developing their confidence to write simple sentences ensuring they are using their Fred Fingers to sound out words.
In Literacy, Year 1 children have worked hard to write questions about different picture stimuli and then about their chosen jobs! They have produced some fabulous questions and know that a question is punctuated with a question mark.

​In Maths, Reception children have explored ways in which 10 can be composed of 2 parts and have represented the composition of to using dice frames and finger patterns.

​Year 1 children have learnt to explain the different between consecutive numbers, to explain what happens when 2 is added to or subtracted from odd and even numbers, to explain what the difference is between consecutive odd and even numbers and to explain what happens when zero is added to or subtracted from a number.

In Science, we have learnt to identify and name the UK national flowers (Rose, Daffodil, Shamrock and Thistle) and we have matched them to the correct country on a map of the UK.

In Computing, Year 1’s continued to familiarise themselves with word processors and how they can interact with the computer using a keyboard. The children worked hard to enter text into the computer, use the letter, number and space keys and learnt to use the backspace to remove text.

​In PE, we have begun our ‘Athletics’ unit. This week we looked at moving at varying speeds. Our warm up activity this week was an activity called Mr Men we had to listen to the commands and move accordingly. We were then put in teams and had to move from one end of the area to the other end and back before giving the next child a 'high-5’ and we had to listen to our travel instructions which were walk, jog and sprint.

We have been learning and practising Makaton linked to our planting songs “The Planting Song” and “In My Little Garden”. We have learnt to sign ‘working’, ‘farm’, ‘garden’, ‘flower’, ‘grass’, ‘sun’, ‘rain’ and ‘fruit’.