Minibeasts and this weeks' learning:

 This week minibeasts remained our focus in provision, our story of the week was “All About Minibeasts” by Giles Andreae.
Children have had the opportunity to write “What Am I?” cards for different minibeasts using their Fred Fingers. We are having a big focus on Reception choosing to write short captions and sentences independently and are so proud of the writing they are producing – keep it up!
​We have had small world minibeasts to explore and we have continued to create our own junk modelled minibeasts in the creative area! Our funky finger activity was to thread the laces in and out of the different shapes.
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In our outdoor area we spotted a beetle and on Welly Walk we took part in a minibeast hunt and had lots of fun!
We have continued to have lots of fun on the tractor tyre. This week we used it to balance on whilst playing a throwing game with our friends. We have also enjoyed practising writing our numerals and playing ‘tic-tac-toe’ with the chunky chalks!
Here are some photos of us having lots fun and doing some wonderful learning in our outside area and on Welly Walk!

In Literacy, Y1’s text driver for the next two weeks is “A Coder Like Me” by Dr Shini Somara. The children are working towards writing questions to ask Mr Davison about Computing. Last week, and over the coming weeks Year 1's will be practising forming upper case letters correctly and will continue to learn the names of the letters as well as the sounds they make.

Reception children continue to access RWI lessons daily and handwriting lessons – some children are focusing on big movements on paper and other children are practising letter formation in handwriting books – ensuring they are starting and finishing in the correct place. This week children have continued to work on “around letters”.

In Maths, Reception children have recapping subitising and counting. We started the week counting out a small quantity of 6/8 from a larger group, we worked with a friend one of us was the collector and the other the checker and then we swapped roles! We then joined in with the counting sequence to 10, ensuring we remembered to stop when we count to the end of a set of up to 10 jumps/claps/hops. Next we counted objects to 20 and practised saying the tricky teen numbers and finally we practised counting to 100 and larger quantities that cannot be moved! 

​In PE, we have been developing our jumping for height (high jump) and practised our underarm throw by throwing beanbags into hoops of 2 distances.