16th October

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 learn a range of new vocabulary to describe the range of characters which feature in the story. With a focus on listening for the initial sound in words we will have lots of fun creating 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 19^th 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.

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 will be changed on any day next week

IMPORTANT DATES

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

23^rd to 27^th October 2017: Half Term

20^th December 2017: End of Term