This week, in literacy, we will be focusing on The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. At the start of the week, we will be reading the story and introducing the new ambitious vocabulary ravenous, devour and  metamorphosis.  The children will be writing dictated sentences to describe the story, completing butterfly symmetry painting, unscrambling given sentences and using the Tuff Tray to retell the story.  They will also have the opportunity to paint scenes from the story, create a dance and music, order a variety of lifecycles and use a variety of props to reenact the story.  

During maths, the children will be focusing on patterns within numbers to 10.  They will be discussing their understanding of equivalence and making doubles using their fingers.  Can they explain why it is a double?  The children will be exploring ways to share an equal amount of objects and how they know if they have an equal amount.  We will also be using the rekenreks but with both rows to represent doubles using lots of reasoning. 

In phonics, we will be continuing to focus on  phase 4 words.    There will be no new tricky words but please continue to practise all those learnt so far, especially those recently added.
Reading groups will continue Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and the children will need reading folders in their bags every day please. 
 

Rhyme of the week:  I had a little nut tree.

The children will be having PE on a WEDNESDAY and Friday and will need to come into school in PE kit on these days.  Please ensure long hair is tied up for PE.