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Autumn 1 -  All About Me

Monday 13th - 17th October

Phonics

This week we have learnt the sound 'o' 'c', 'k' and 'u'. We have learnt to read and write each sound using the letter formation rhymes as well as orally blending words containing these. Please practise these sounds at home as we will move on next week to learn 4 more sounds.

Reading

This week we have been reading 'The Invisible String'. We have thought about who is connected to us through our own invisible string and have talked about family members and friends. We have drawn a picture of the people connected to our own invisible string and also a how far our invisible string can reach. Lots of us drew a picture of space for this activity!

Writing 

This week, we have begun our next unit of writing 'All About My Family' we have started drawing and labelling people in our families. Most of us started with our mum and dad and we are now moving on to our brothers, sisters and pets.

Maths

We have moved on to our next unit of work in Maths which is focusing on the numbers 1, 2 and 3. We have explored finding one more and one less, and have thought about this with larger numbers, through songs such as '5 currant buns'. We have thought about the composition of number too. For example, the number 3 is made up of a 2 and a 1, or a 1, a 1 and another 1.

Big Picture

 Our first topic this term is 'All About Me'. This week we have focussed on the people that are most special to us and looked at the photos we have of these people in our treasure boxes. We made our own photo frames from lollypop sticks.

RE

This week we continued learning about our value 'Thankfulness'. We read the story 'A Wet & Windy Harvest for Puddles". We continued to learn all about what happens at a Harvest and how Christians say thank you to god for the Harvest at this time of year. Next week we will move onto our next Puddles book.