Week beginning 10th December 2018

We are continuing to look at The Nativity Story this week. We will be looking at the features of a journey toolkit and will be doing our own piece of independent story writing. There is an emphasis on using new vocabulary from the text (such as taxes, scroll, worship) as well as using conjunctions and time adverbials effectively.

1263 – Nativity – The Macneil Studio

Reading

We are continuing to read The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl.

Maths

We have moved onto early multiplication skills e.g recognising and making equal groups. Our focus this week is on making links between this and repeated addition before leading into using the multiplication symbol. For example: 5+5+5 is the same as three equal groups with five in each group which is the same as 3 X 5. The X symbol means ‘groups of’ or ‘lots of’. The children should make links between the fact that addition is commutative (can be done in any order) and therefore so is multiplication e.g 3×5 and 5×3 will give you the same total.

History

We will be introducing a new famous person from history… Florence Nightingale.

Reminder

Don’t forget our Christmas production is Thursday 13th December at 2:15 in the main hall. Christmas jumper is on Friday 15th December. 🙂