This week Class 1 have looked at the ‘fourness’ of 4.  The children explored how 3 and 1 more makes 4; and 1 and 3 more makes 4.  They explored and found objects with four, e.g. – a chair has 4 legs, a square has 4 sides.  They collected sets of 4 things and investigated different ways to make 4 using our numicon and unifix.  The children were then challenged to show what was 4 and what was not 4 and explain and prove it!

This week we have continued to explore the threeness of 3.  The children have compared 1,2 and 3.  Matched amounts to the correct numeral, used comparative language to compare e.g. – ‘bigger than’, and ‘biggest’, ‘smaller’ etc.    We have encouraged the children to use language – ‘two is bigger than one’, ‘three is the biggest’, ‘one is first’. ‘two is second’, ‘three is third’.

The children have found different ways to make 3 and prove it is three, they have used language such as ‘I know it is 3 because there are 2 on top and another one underneath, 2 and 1 is 3.’   We have explored how it doesn’t matter if we move the objects around there still will be 3.

The children in Class One have had another super week.  They have shared their favourite nursery rhymes and enjoyed singing them as a class.  We have had fun listening for and spotting the rhyming words, then  thinking of new rhyming words.  We focussed on Humpty Dumpty and had fun cutting out his pieces to try and put him back together again!

On Thursday we had a practice fire drill, Class One children did a great job of calmly leaving the classroom and lining up on the playground.  They spent the rest of the day pretending to be Fire Fighters, putting out fires and rescuing kittens!

At the beginning of the week the children were busy finding one and then two things.  We remembered that 1 add another makes 2, and 2 take away 1 leaves 1.

Making 3 – the children exlored how 2 things add 1 more makes 3, and 1 thing add 2 more makes 3.  They made use of the items in the classroom to prove it.

This week we have looked at the phonemes ‘s’ and ‘d’.  When we write the sounds the children say:

‘s’ – slither down the snake

‘d’ – around the dinosaurs bottom, up his tall neck and down to his feet.

The children are making good use of the class room resources to enhance their learning through play.

The children in Class 1 have had a super start to their first week at school.  They have been very busy in the class room and outside area.  They have all done really well and we are really proud of the class.

This week we have looked at the letter sounds ‘m’ and ‘a’.  The children have also practised how to form these letters:

m – Maisie Mountain, mountain

a- around the apple and down the leaf

In Maths we have looked at number 1 and the concept of ‘oneness; – one is a single unit and it doesn’t matter about the size of what is been counted e.g. one elephant, one ant. The children then explored what happens when there is another 1 and  how they come together to make 2 and how 2 can be separated into 1 and another 1.

The children did really well changing into their PE kits and taking part in their first dance lesson with Mr Sudlow.  This term they will be basing their dance moves on music from the Jungle book.

All children have now been allocated a reading book and they have all chosen a library book to share with you at home.