Week beginning 16th October 2017

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#f454da” ]This week’s learning

AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: All about me

LITERACY:

Book Focus: Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson

The children really enjoyed this lovely book and this week they will learn a range of new vocabulary to describe the various characters which feature in the story. We will focus on listening for the initial sound in words as we read the story together, creating funny alliterative phrases to describe each character eg. the slinky, slithery snake

Phonics: This term in Phonics we have been focusing on sound discrimination, the children have been listening to a range of songs and rhymes and exploring a range of different environmental, instrumental and body percussion sounds.

After half term the children will start learning about letter sounds. This short video will help them with letter(grapheme) recognition and sound(phoneme) pronunciation:

TOPIC – Knowledge and Understanding of the World:

We will talk about how different people celebrate and the children will learn about Diwali- the Hindu festival of lights which will take place around the 19th October this year.

MATHS: The children will be learning all about numbers 6 to 10. They will learn how to represent these numbers as numerals and as quantities; to order these numbers from the smallest quantity to the largest quantity along a number line. The children will learn to use a range of resources to support their understanding of numbers within 10.

Early Morning Work: the children are doing very well with their morning routine of practising letter formation and writing their names. [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#150ae7″ ]HOMEWORK:

Draw a picture of one of your friends and ask an adult to help you write what you like about them

Class library books: Please remember to keep your child’s library book and yellow diary in their book bag. Books may be changed on any day next week [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#fcef48″ ]IMPORTANT DATES

19th October 2017: Parent Evenings from 4.30pm -7.00pm

23rd to 27th October 2017: Half Term. Children return to school on Monday 30th October 2017

20th December 2017:End of  Autumn Term 2 [/dropshadowbox]