Our story of the week this week was ‘’Little Red Riding Hood”. This week our focus was on story goodies and story baddies – we could identify the Woodchopper as the story goodie and the wolf as the story baddie. We also listened to the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ where we identified Goldilocks as the baddie and the Bears as the goodies. Our Talk through Stories this week was ‘On the Way Home’ by Jill Murphy. We started by listening attentively to the story, we then identified the characters and explored what the problem was. We have enjoyed joining in with the favourite phrases and showing expressions in a freeze-frame when given a situation from the story. Our learning activities have included; using puppets in the small world area to retell the story, creating wanted posters, playing ‘what time is it Mr Wolf?’, making flowers using creative materials, weaving the ribbon in and out of Little Red Riding Hoods’ basket and playing a CVC game where we had to roll the dice, move our counter along and if we landed on a word we had to use our Fred Talk to read the word. We were also challenged to make a maze using the Duplo for the characters to go through - just like Little Red Riding Hood had to go through the forest to get to her grandmas house. In Literacy, our Year 1 children have started their new unit of learning where our end piece of writing will be a setting description. The children started the week listening to the traditional tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ where they then answered questions related to the story. Next, we were introduced to our text driver ‘Jim and the Beanstalk’, we looked at the cover and predicted what might happen within the story after listening to the story we compared how it was similar and different to the traditional story. We have also been introduced to conjunctions and know these join clauses/sentences together. Here we are hard at work completing our handwriting, red words and hold a sentence! In Maths, Reception children started the week looking at capacity where we used the language full, empty and nearly full and we can say that the taller containers don’t always hold more. Throughout the rest of the week we have subitised arrangements of 6 and not 6, ordered Numberblock images to 8, represented 8 as ‘5 and 3 more’, described how to place the numbers 1-8 in order, explained how to order quantities to 10, reasoned about which numbers are ‘more than’ others and noticed when numbers are increased or decreased and explained our thinking. Our Year 1 children have explored, discussed and compared 2D shapes, explored, discussed and identified circles and shapes that are not circles, explored, discussed and identified triangles and shapes that are not triangles and explored, discussed and compared quadrilaterals. In History, we learnt that the year 1666 was over 350 years ago and we know that this is the year that the Great Fire of London broke out. We looked at photographs of modern London and with our talk partners we discussed what we could see including; houses, buildings, transport and people. Next, we thought about why we don’t have photos of what London was like in 1666 (17th century) and we discovered that this was because cameras had not been invented! For our main task, we worked as a group to sort picture of past and present London. We discussed how the buildings were different in the past and how the people travelled differently. In PSHE, we have looked at the question ‘Why do I brush my teeth?’. We then spoke about how it is just as important to look after our teeth like we look after the rest of our body. We learnt that we need to brush our teeth twice a day and that brushing them gets rid of any food that is on our teeth that may cause them damage. We then listened to a song about brushing teeth – we know we go up and down, around and around and left to right! Then in our choosing time we practised cleaning dirt off some model teeth - we practised going up and down and all around!
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