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Autumn 2 - Starry Night

Monday 17th - Friday 21st November

Phonics

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

Reading

This week we read The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers. We followed a boy who gets stuck on the moon and meets a friendly Martian who is also stranded. We talked about how they might communicate without using the same language and shared ideas about what they could do next to help each other get back home.

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 finished creating our very own books all about space and wrote sentences about all the things we could see in Space. 

Maths

We have been learning about the number 4 and 5 this week. We have represented these on 5 frames, counted their amounts, and looked at the composition of these numbers.

Big Picture

 This week in our Big Picture work, we continued with our topic 'Starry Night'. We went on a trip to the moon with Baby Bear from the story 'Whatever Next' . We read 'Peace at Last' then used instruments to make a sound scape for the sounds daddy bear heard at night in the story. 

RE

In RE this week we started to learn about the Nativity Story. The children really enjoyed their trip to Bisham School to see the Wintershall Travelling Nativity.