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Autumn 2 - Starry Night

Monday 10th - Friday 14th November

Phonics

This week in phonics, we have been learning the sounds u, b, f & e. You might like to have a little fun practising, these sounds at home with your child. 

Reading

This week we continued reading Man on the Moon – A Day in the Life of Bob by Simon Bartram. It’s a fun story about Bob, who has a very important job looking after the Moon and giving tours to visitors — even though he doesn’t believe in aliens (but we know better!). We’ve really enjoyed reading the book together, drawing the next adventure for Bob, and taking part in role play pretending to be Bob on his space adventures.

Writing 

This week for our writing, we have been reading Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy for inspiration. We went on an exciting journey with Baby Bear to the Moon and imagined all the amazing things we might see in space along the way. We continued creating our very own books all about space and wrote sentences about all the things we could see in Space. 

Maths

This week in maths, we have been working on the White Rose unit Circles and Triangles. We’ve been learning to name and recognise these 2D shapes, talking about their sides and corners, and exploring where we can find them in the world around us. We have also been looking at Positional Language and playing games where we have to put a teddy bear under the chair, on the chair, next to the chair, behind the chair and in front of the chair. 

Big Picture

 This week in our Big Picture work, we continued with our new topic Starry Night. We looked closely at the famous painting Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and talked about the colours and patterns he used. We then had lots of fun finishing our own beautiful Starry Night pictures inspired by his work.we also painted with planets using balloons and went on lots of pretend trip to Space to see what we could see. 

RE

In RE this week, we have introduced our new Christian value — Trust. We have been learning what it means to trust others and to be trustworthy ourselves. We have also been starting to think about Christmas and how it is celebrated around the World.