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Friday 19th April

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 Friday 19th April Phonics  This week in phonics we have been revising all the phase 2 and 3 sounds learnt so far and have learnt some new sounds as well. This weeks sounds are :- ow, oi and ear.   The books we have been reading together this week are :- This floats, that sinks and On the Go. Next week we will be reading Brown Fox Tricks Fox, Stop that Popcorn and Pet Kits. Maths This week, the children have continued to engage with activities that draw attention to the purpose of counting – to find out ‘how many’ objects there are. The children have also revisited the concept of cardinality – the idea that the last number in the count tells us how many things there are altogether. Art We would like to set up an art outdoor area with ready mixed paint for the children to have the opportunity to mix paints independently. If you have any empty clear soap dispensers at home these would be very useful for putting paint in. Many thanks. Reading Challenge Well done to those children who hav
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Thursday 28th March

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 Thursday 28th March Welcome to our last blog before the Easter holidays. This week we have been busy doing doing lots of Easter activities in school..  There is no set homework over the next 2 week break but we hope that the children will continue to read regularly with you at home.  We wish you all a lovely break with your families. RE We have been learning about Easter through the concept of 'new life'.  First, we discussed when / where we have seen signs of new life e.g. new buds on trees, spring flowers.  We talked about the signs of spring - lambs being born and chicks hatching.  Then we learnt what Christians believe about new life and Jesus at Easter. We enjoyed making our Easter cards. Phonics This week in phonics, we have learnt the phonemes 'or' and 'ur'. We also learnt the tricky words 'you' as well as recapping all previously learnt tricky words. Maths In Maths this week, we have been learning the names and properties of a range of 3D shapes
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  Friday 22nd March This week we have continued to learn about 'People who help us'.  We have continued learning about the features of non-fiction books such as the contents page, headings, labels, bold print and glossary. We also thought about how the police help us, when our favourite swing went missing from our outdoor classroom! We created posters to help find our missing swing and pinned them around the school. Phonics In phonics this week, we have learnt to re ad and write words with the long 'oo' sound (as in spoon), the short 'oo' sound (as in book) and the digraph 'ar'. We have been introduced to the  "tricky" words " we " and " are " - these are words we learn to recognise by sight.  It would really support your child to remember all the new digraphs that we are learning if you could play some of the games related to these sounds on your child's Bug Club account. Thank you! Maths In maths, we have been developi
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                                        Friday 15th March  People Who Help Us Phonics In phonics this week, we have learnt to read and write words with the digraphs and trigraphs  ai , ee , igh and oa . We have consolidated our recognition of the new "tricky" words " we" and " are" - these are words we recognize by sight. It would really support your child to remember the new digraphs that we are learning if you could play some games related to these sounds on your child's bug club account. Thank you Maths This week, the children have continued to explore the composition of numbers within 10, focusing on the ‘special case’ of when 2 equal parts combine to make a whole. The children first used their skills of comparison and identify when 2 sets are equal or NOT equal. The children have started to recall some doubles facts e.g. double 2 is 4, double 5 is 10. Whiteley Reading Challenge. You have now received your child's reading challenge card.   Th
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Friday 8th March

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 Friday 8th March This week we have continued with our work about Supertato, the veggie superhero.  We have been very busy writing speech bubbles for the super veggies we made last week. We have tried hard to remember to write our sentences with a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. Phonics This week in phonics we have been learning about the digraphs: ch, sh, th and ng.   We have practiced writing words and sentences using these sounds. We have also learnt the tricky word 'they’. Maths This week we have been consolidating our knowledge of the composition of numbers within 7 e.g. seeing that 7 can be made of 5 and 2.  A key focus was learning how to partition 7 and think about the missing part e.g. 7 is made of 4 and ___. Whiteley Reading Challenge. You have now received your child's reading challenge card.   The aim of this challenge is to encourage regular daily reading to improve your child's confidence and fluency.  At the end of each stage we have little rew
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Friday 1st March This week we have been reading the story of Supertato. He is a supermarket hero who saves the day when there is an evil pea on the loose! We have discussed our likes and dislikes about the story and have explored new vocabulary such as "gasped", "vanished" and "in distress". We have practised joining in with the reading using lots of expression in our voices.  We have even made our own Super Veggies! We had lots of fun! Phonics   This week in phonics we have been learning about the sounds y, z, zz and qu. We have practiced writing words and sentences using these sounds. We have also learnt the tricky words he, my, by and she  . Bug club phase three actions Bug club phase 2 actions Maths This week we have been learning about   comparison of quantities using the language 'more than', 'less than' and 'equal to' to describe the relationship between numbers e.g. 5 is more than 4. You may like to encourage your child to g
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  Friday 23rd February This week at school we were excited to walk to the post box to post our letters. We hope that they arrive soon! On our walk, we practised using positional vocabulary to describe our journey and the features of our local environment e.g. "We walked past the bus stop.", "We went over the stream." We made simple maps to show our walk. We used Google Earth to zoom into our school from space. We discussed how our world looks from above and identified features. Phonics In phonics this week we have learnt to read and write words with the phonemes j , v , w and  x .  We have learnt the new tricky words me and be . - these are words we learn to recognize by sight. Please use the games on your child's Bug Club account to practise these new sounds. Please also check your child's reading log to find out which book to read at home to practise these sounds. This is really important as there is a lot of new learning to remember this week. Thank you
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Friday 9th February

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 Friday 9th February | This week we have looked at the story 'Rosie's Walk' by Pat Hutchins.  We have learnt about positional language (over, across, through) and used these words to retell the story using story props. Click here to watch 'Rosie's Walk'. This image shows some of the other positional words we have been using this week. We have also been very busy writing letters to our families that we are going to pop into the postbox the week after half term.  Thank you if you have already sent in a stamp with your child's name on it. If you have not yet done so, please send in a stamp (labelled with your child's name) straightaway after half term as some children will be walking to the post box on Monday 19th February. Phonics This week in phonics, we have been learning the letters  l , ll, s  and  ss  with a particular focus on letter formation and writing CVC words such mess , till and lip . Please use the games on Bug Club to practise these sounds
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 Friday 2nd February This week we have continued to discuss the story of Stanley's stick. We went for a walk in the woods to collect sticks. We have written a sentence about what we pretended our stick could be.  For example...                                                       The stick is a dinosaur. The stick is a fishing rod. The illustrator of Stanley's stick, Neal Layton, sent a video for the children to watch about how he creates his illustrations. It was very interesting.  Phonics This week in phonics we have been revisiting the letters h,b,f and ff with a particular focus on letter formation and writing CVC words such as hat, bug and fit. Reading Please can you check your child's reading log each Friday to find out which Bug Club book they have read at school each week. This will be allocated to your child's Bug Club account.  Please can you read this book two more times at home to develop your child's confidence and fluency.    It's really important
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 Friday 26th January This week we have been reading the story of 'Stanley's Stick' by John Hegley and illustrated by Neal Layton. We have discussed the language used in the story and talked about all the different things that Stanley imagines his stick to be. Maths This week, we have continued to work on activities that develop the children's understanding of composition, or the number within numbers. The children developed their understanding of pairs of numbers that make 5, and used double dice frames to begin to explore 6 and 7 as numbers that are composed of '5 and a bit'. Phonics This week in phonics we have been revisiting the letters ck,e,u,r with a particular focus on letter formation and writing CVC words such as pen, rug and rat. Reading Thank you for returning the phonic reader books each Wednesday. Unfortunately we are not having enough books returned each week and baskets of books are looking rather empty. Please could you check at home if you have
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