This week in literacy,  we will be continuing to focus on the story of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury for a final week.  We will be reviewing the story and will recap the ambitious vocabulary petrified, narrow, stumble and gloomy.    During the week, the children will be writing a descriptive, dictated sentence, labelling items they would take on a bear hunt, labelling parts of a bear and will make their own binoculars/telescope.  The children will also have the opportunity to create and construct a bear cave, complete jigsaws lined to the Bear Hunt, reenact the story using props and make a split pin bear. 

In maths, the focus will be on composition. The children will be watching Numberblocks episode ‘seven’ and will be using multi link to construct 7 using only 2 colours (6 and 1; 3 and 4, etc).  We will draw attention to the quickest way to show 7 with our fingers which is 5 and 2 and we will use the generalised statement: 7 is made of 5 and 2. Independently, the children will explore different ways of making 7 on ten frames and die frames.  They will also be using dominoes, eye spy seven, sorting seven and not seven and will use Numicon.  

In phonics, we will be reviewing all words, digraphs,  trigraphs and tricky words taught this term. Following our assessments, the children will be bringing home precision grids for further practise, where necessary, on Friday.

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: The wheels on the bus

PE: Please send children to school in their PE kit on a Friday only.

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.