This week in literacy,  we will be continuing to focus on various stories of The Gingerbread Man. We will be making recapping 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 comparison.  The children will be counting with numbers up to 20 and comparing numbers up to 10.  Children will be matching towers of cubes to a given number on a track to 10 and describing what they can see e.g. ten is a lot more than 2; 4 is a little more than 2.  We will be using the vocabulary great than and less than when comparing numbers.  The children will have the opportunity to play simple track games, solve puzzles, use Numicon and match numbers to amounts.

In phonics, we will be focusing on a variety of phase 4 words e.g.clown, street, stair, fright.  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: Ten green bottles

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.