The children in class one have worked very hard today and yesterday. They have enjoyed finding out about a variety of different animals and have sorted them into different habitats. This afternoon, the children were set the task of deciding how they could build/make small world areas for farm, ocean, wild and domestic animals. They came up with lovely ideas and helped to create a farm and an ocean small world area this afternoon.
In Maths, we have been counting to 100 in 5s and 10s. We have also been counting actions such as hops, claps, jumps. The children have been encouraged to count silently in their heads. We have been exploring number bonds to 9 today too and looking at how addition number sentences can help to work out subtraction number sentences.
In Letters and Sound we have been busy learning the tricky words ‘do’ and ‘out’. We have looked at words with two adjacent consonants such as splash, spring, splat. Some children have explored two-syllable words such as bedroom, toothbrush and armchair. They also found out about the ‘ure’ sound today in words such as ‘manure’, ‘cure’ and ‘sure’.
We spent some time outdoors yesterday playing ‘Bumper Cars’ with hoops. We had to avoid bumping into each other and travelling in different directions. When we ran out of petrol we had to jump up and down on the spot. When we had a flat tyre we had to stand on one leg.
The children have enjoyed playing with the small world dinosaurs in the dinosaur land too. They have has access to craft and modelling materials and have loved making all sorts of items for our small world areas and for the topic.
