Phonics -

Grapheme recap - ear, air, oi, er, ai.

Tricky word recap.

Whiteboard writing - hear, fair, coin, digger, rain.

 

Maths -

Our focus this week has been ordinality: considering where numbers to 10 are in relation to each other. Through practical activities and games, the children have thought about numbers and thought carefully about which is more or less. They have used linear number tracks to play games that has encouraged them to compare numbers that are far apart, near and next to each other. (For example, 10 is a lot more than 2 but 5 is only 1 more than 4.)  

The children have made connections between their experiences with counting 1-to-1 and subitising dice patterns, and the actions of rolling dice and moving themselves and puppets/soft toys along linear number tracks. Playing games where each equal space on a track is labelled with a different, sequential number has reinforced the order of numbers, and is supporting the children’s understanding of the rank order of numerical magnitude (the idea that numbers are getting bigger as we move along the track) and of the linear increase in the numbers (the idea that each number on the track is 1 more than the previous number and 1 less than the following number). 

Ideas for home -

Using large number tracks and large dice, play some more 1-to-1 dice games with the children moving themselves along the number tracks. Stand on your starting point. How many jumps do you need to make? What number are you on now? How many more do you need to jump? Let’s say the numbers you jump on together!

 

Topic -

We had read the lovely story Errol's Garden during our topic time this week, where Errol created a beautiful rooftop garden for himself and his neighbours. We looked at the seed cycle again and the word 'germination' was our word of the week. The children then created their own rooftop gardens using a range of collage materials. 

 

Wishlist -

We are looking for toy baby clothes to dress our babies in the home corner, if you have any going spare we'd be very grateful!

 

Have a lovely weekend!