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This week to continue with our ‘Once Upon a time’ topic… We are getting stuck in to two stories that both feature cats as their main characters! They also both set off on exciting adventures to London!
These stories were created 100’s of years ago and have been told in lots of different ways.
We’ll be starting the week off with ‘Puss in Boots’ (of course featuring our special friend digraph ‘oo’)
Once Upon a Time!
Welcome back after your Christmas Holiday.
Did any of you go to see a pantomime?
Over the next few weeks we are going to be learning all about tales that have been used in pantomimes.
Oh yes we are........
To start off with we are going to read a couple of stories written by famous storytellers from a long time ago. The Snow Queen was written by Hans Christian Anderson and Snow White was written by the Brothers Grimm.
Here is a quick reminder of the stories.
Our stories support our phonics as usual and for children just starting to learn their set 1 RWI sounds we will be looking at the letters 's' and 'a' for the apple that snow-white bites into.
Click here to visit Evie and Dodge introducing the letter 's' as well as using the CBeebies alphabet songs to sing about words starting with the 's' sound.
Maybe have a go at blending a few single sounds together to make a word using 's'?
For children who have moved onto their set 2 RWI digraphs (special friends) we are going to start applying the 'ow' and the 'qu' special friends into our writing.
If you want to have a go at home practising your phonics much in the same way we do at school take a look at Abi's phonics for 'ow' and 'qu'.
Our rhymes this week are introducing Princesses, Princes, Kings and Queens!
Our 5 minutes of morning movement is Drip Drop Rain..... see below.
To learn how to communicate in different ways we will continue our focus on signing. Our signs this week are all about the weather.
For our maths this week we will be starting our White Rose Maths "Alive in 5" focus.
We will be introducing the concept of zero and learn how to count backwards from 5 and then count backwards from 10.
We will be singing the song "5 currant buns in a bakers shop" to help the children take one bun away at a time and count back to having no buns left ..... 0!
What a great day to get us in to the Christmas spirit.
We are going to continue to find out about animals that come out at night. We have been learning that they are called "Nocturnal" which means they are mainly active at night.
Our phonics for this week are the single letter sounds 'f' and 'x'
Use Evie and Dodge and the cBeebies alphabet songs to try and spot words starting using these two letters.
Can you start to blend using these letters?
Our set 2 special friends may be a little confusing! Last week we found out that 'ow' can be used in the word owl but this week we are going to look at the alternative way of saying it! eg 'ow' as in blow the snow! Just in time for some Christmas snow showers!
Take a look at the video below if you are learning your phonics at home this week.
Continuing our bedtime theme we will be singing "ten in the bed"
Our signs of the week are all about woodland animals
This week we are going to ask the question - Do animals sleep at night too?
We will be using the story "Owl Babies" to teach the children about nocturnal animals such as owls, foxes, bats and, hedgehogs and badgers.
Here is the delightful animation of the story.
As usual we will be linking our phonics to our story of the week.
We will be checking that the children recognise the letter 'o' and are going in the anticlockwise direction as they try to write it.To help with that we have started to say "back around the orange" This gives the children a little prompt as to which direction they go when they start to write it.
We will also be introducing the special friends (two letters, one sound) 'oo' as in twit two! and we will be explaining the 'ow' in owl.
As some of the children are not able to be in school at the moment here are a couple of phonics lessons for you to play.
We have been learning about how important it is to clean our teeth.
It needs to be part of our bedtime routine and our morning routine too.
Listen to the catchy song!
Take a look at the very practical way we have been learning about cleaning our teeth!
Another busy and exciting week.
For next week we are turning our attention to bedtime routines and actually getting to sleep!
Watch the lovely animation of one of our favourite stories.
Another lovely story all about getting to sleep is Peace at last.
Letters that we will be getting to know this week are......... letters that make the 'c' sound.
We will be talking about sleep a lot this week so we will also be looking at the special friends 'ee'
Visit Evie and Dodge to reinforce these sounds at home or sing along with an alphabet song and play I spy with words that start with our letters of the week.
Can you blend the letters together to make simple words?
Mr Tumble is going to teach us some useful signs for bedtime this week
Our nursery rhyme this week is Hickory Dickory Dock
There will be lots of talk too about 'who helps to keep us safe whilst we are asleep?'
In fact - does everyone go to sleep at the same time?
We will be talking about the signs we see that tell us it is time for bed and the routines we do to get ourselves ready. There are lots of rhyming words in this story. Can you spot them?
Our maths focus this week ...... We will be looking into the different ways we can make 4 and 5 as well as introducing the children to squares and cube shapes. We will be using the lessons from our White Rose Maths scheme using the Light and dark lessons from week 2. If you want to take a look at these at home click here
We have had huge amounts of fun this week learning about how we celebrate.
For our story this week we get to meet another child who dreams of shooting off into the dark to explore!
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