We have had a busy first week back at school ending with our Number Day on Friday. The children all enjoyed sharing the numbers that they had found at home and had fun doing lots of counting and activities based on the number 30. We have also enjoyed having our PE lessons outside on the Trim trail and Log climber in the big playground. 

Observation Challenge  Thank you for sharing last weeks observations of repeating patterns. 

This week we would love  to see some observations of the children hunting for minibeasts in the garden or the park

This week’s Learning 

The full plans are available here if you are isolating at home for week 1.

PSED 

In addition to our Jigsaw and Daily Wellbeing, we will be including circle times to support friendships and play as appropriate for each class.

Our Jigsaw session this week is the first in our theme of “Changing me” and we will be talking about how we keep our bodies healthy.

We will also continue to do daily wellbeing activities.

Communication and Language

This week we will be reading and sequencing the well known story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle. We will be using story sack props to tell the story to each other.

Physical

Gross motor skills: We are going to use agility and strength as we explore the trim trail and log climber in the big playground.

Literacy 

Phonics 

This week we will be recapping all sounds and tricky words up to phase 4. We will then be learning to write and spell two-syllable words.

Reading

This week we will be reading with the children 1:1 or in small guided reading groups.

Please remember to try and read with your child for 10 minutes every day.

Writing        

This week we will be writing about which ELLI animal helps us learn in school.

Mathematics

We are continuing to learn all about numbers to 20:

•  Recognising and writing the numerals
•  Ordering numerals to 20
•  Counting to 20 and back down from 20
•  Knowing one more and one less to 20
• Counting objects to 20 in different ways.
• Calculating addition and take away number stories.

This week we will continue our pattern making and be learning about symmetry. We will look at photographs of butterfly wings (and maybe even our own real butterflies) and use 2Paint on Purple Mash to draw our own. 

We will use resources from around the classroom to make large and small symmetrical patterns.

Understanding the World

The World 

We will continue watching our growing caterpillars and learning about different minibeasts.

RE

We will be continuing our unit looking at the question “How should we live our lives?” 

This week we will be hearing about when Jesus met Zacchaeus.

Expressive Arts

This week we will be using paint to create some butterfly wings using symmetry.