This week in literacy,  we will be focusing on various stories of The Gingerbread Man. We will be making predictions about the story and will discuss the ambitious vocabulary scurry, screech  and cunning.  During the week, the children will be writing a dictated sentence in a speech bubble, linked to the text, making their own gingerbread man carefully following a simple recipe, completing labelling activities and using play dough to create their own gingerbread man using a variety of tools and decorations.  They will also have the opportunity to retell the story using props, sequence the journey, collage or paint a gingerbread man and use computers to design and make a gingerbread man.

In maths, the focus will be on composition.  The children will be recapping numbers 6 to 9 in the ‘5 and a bit’ structure. They will be using 5 dice frames to illustrate and show numbers 6 to 10 understanding that each one begins with 5.  Stem sentence: ______ is made of 5 and _______; 5 and _____ make ______.  They will be identifying where they can recognise 10 of something through understanding 10 is made of 5 and 5 and where it is not 10.  The children will be matching 10 frames to the correct Numberblock image, playing pairs games to make 10, using double sided counters to make 10 and will be using coloured paint to print showing number bonds to 10 e.g. 6 and 4; 2 and 8.
 

In phonics, we will be focusing on phase 4 CVCC and CCVC words e.g. toast, bright, sport, green.  There will be no new tricky words but please practise all those in their boxes, especially more recent ones.

Reading will be on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and children need their reading folders each day.  They will choose a new book for the reading challenge on a Friday.
 

Rhyme of the week: Nobody loves me

PE: Please send children to school in their PE kit on a Friday only.  We will be using some of our PE time as physical development, exploring and working in the wooded area. 

Please send your child with a coat every day as we use the outside classroom every day and will be outside for playtimes and lunchtimes. If sunny, please apply an 8 hour or long lasting sun cream in the morning to avoid the children needing to reapply themselves. 

Monday 22nd June 2.30pm - 3.30pm: Fathers’ Day celebration - one special guest per child please.