This week we started a new book! It is called 'How To wash a Woolly mammoth' by Michelle Robinson and Kate Hindley. It is essentially a series of funny instructions, which the children enjoyed. The children wrote their own list of instructions for hand washing and they had to follow a partner's instruction for 'lego' building. They have also followed dictation and used a piece of writing to recognise graphemes.
For maths the children have been working on benchmarks when adding. We use tens frames and other apparatus to help with this.
We had great fun creating sculptures from modelling clay.
NEXT WEEK
English
We will continue with instruction writing. The children will be ordering instructions that have been muddled. They will write their own instructions for washing a creature and follow a series of instructions from a partner. We will be carrying out dictation as this is helping with sentence structure and punctuation. They will be given a piece of writing, which they use to highlight chosen graphemes. We have daily phonics and spelling sessions and the children will be practicing handwriting three times next week.
Maths
The focus will continue to be on benchmarks as the children use five, ten and twenty as they regroup for addition. We will move on to subtraction from twenty. The children will count over one hundred in ones, twos, fives and tens. We will revise days of the week, months of the year and seasons.
Science
As we have been exploring materials and their properties we will be writing a list of the materials we will need to make our model home. We will explain why we have chosen these materials.
ART
The children will be using a selection of pencils to draw still life pictures.
RE
We will follow on from baptism to understand the story of the baptism of Jesus.
History
There will be an end of topic quiz to give the children the opportunity to demonstrate their learning from this project.
PSHE
A positive attitude will be the theme for PSHE next week.
I wish you all a restful weekend.
I look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Ms Davis
