We started the week reading the story “In Every House on Every Street” by Jess Hitchman. We know there are different types of houses - flat, bungalow, terrace, detached and semi-detached. We have learnt to say that we live in Wombwell near Barnsley in England. We know that we can use Google Earth to find where we live and we had lots of fun on Tuesday and Wednesday trying to find our house on Google Earth on the IWB and iPad using school as a starting point. Our activities have all been linked to houses! In the creative and painting area we have made some wonderful junk modelled houses using the lollipop sticks to create the outline of our houses! We have been drawing and colouring pictures of our houses and we have been using the different construction resources such as the wooden blocks and Duplo to build houses – we have even been building different parts of our homes such as garages! This week for our funky finger activity we had to roll the dice, use the tweezers to pick up the cubes to build a tower! On Thursday, we enjoyed playing a game of Jenga with our friends - we practised turn-taking and teamwork to rebuild the tower when it fell over! Reception children are continuing to work hard in their RWI groups to learn and consolidate previously taught sounds. In Maths, we have had a focus on counting, ordinality and cardinality. We know that the last number in the count tells us ‘how many’ things there are altogether in a set of objects – and we have practised their 1:1 correspondence skill, by counting numbers at the same time as moving or tagging objects. We know that we have 5 fingers on one hand and that ‘5 and 5 makes 10 altogether’. Year 1 children have continued practising letter formation and will be moving on to hold a sentence next week – we will still be ensuring letters are formed correctly! In Maths, we have; explained that items can be compared using length and height, explained that items can be compared using weight/mass and volume/capacity, practised counting a set of objects and compared a set of objects. In Science, we have been thinking about suitable uses for a range of materials and used our knowledge of properties to say why that material is good for the given object.
In RE, we have started our learning on Judaism. We started by Miss Overton sharing her favourite special book with us which was ‘Superworm’. We then learnt that the special book/scroll for Jews is called a ‘Torah’ which contains the 5 books of Moses. In PSHE, over the last 2 weeks we have been thinking about what makes us special. This is something that we have found tricky so our friends have been giving us ways in which we are special. These have been recorded down and will be shared with the children throughout the year as a reminder as to why they are special! For our Talk through Stories story sessions this week we have been enjoying the book ‘Five Minutes Peace’!
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