This week, we will be consolidating all the information we have found out about the wonderful world that we live in! We will ve revisiting all of our big ideas questions and key vocabulary. We will be setting up the classroom in the style of different countries. We will be making passports, boarding a pretend plane and checking in and experiencing different activities from all around the world! 

We will be watching and singing along to this lovely version of 'What a Wonderful World' 

We will be finding out about the Queen's Jubilee - 70 years on the throne! We will be making flags, crowns and some yummy treats to celebrate! 

Watch this lovely animation... After a sudden burst of wind in Buckingham Palace, the Queen's hat gets carried away around London. Fortunately, a trustworthy guard and a playful corgi run after it!

The children are wowing us applying their phonics skills to their reading and writing - keep up the super work little explorers!

Have a go at this game at home (the children love it in school) - you have to blend the word and see if it's treasure (real) or rubbish (nonsense word). Select phase 2 or 3 and the special friends your children know.

Phonics Play- Buried Treasure Game 

Here are a few speedy sounds lessons you could watch at home with sounds the children are finding particularly tricky.

• Speedy sounds - 'qu' (as is the Queen's Jubilee we will be reading and writing this sound lots this week! 
• Speedy sounds 'th' 

The children are trying so hard to spot special friends in their reading-here are some videos to show you how we teach reading to children called 'word time' which we do daily in our phonics sessions. 

• Word time- spotting special friends 

Here is a video showing how we spell words using our 'Fred Fingers', we use this strategy to help segment words to hear all the sounds and then pinch the sounds to help us match them to letters when writing.

• Word time- spelling and writing  

For our F1 children, have a listen to this Fred Talk game, helping children blend sounds together!

• Fred Talk - PARTY! 

 

We are continuing our White Rose topic on 'Find my Pattern', we will be focusing on sharing and grouping.

Check out this numberblocks episode, exploring patterns that make 10. 

 

We are continuing our 'Big Wide World' topic... We will be exploring how everyone around the world is unique and that is what makes the world such a special place! We will be sharing different stories that celebrate diversity and exploring different cultures and communities from around the world. 

Have a listen to this lovely book 'One World Together'- Where would you like to visit in the world?

We will be talking about how we are all wonderfully unique... Have a listen to this story, you could then have a go at one of the home learning challenges attached to the blog post below. As always, we'd love to see what you get up to on Tapestry or bring your creations into school.

The children are trying so hard with their reading and their writing, huge thank you for everyone supporting this at home. Check out these Read, Write, Inc videos to help children embed sounds they are finding particularly tricky.  This week it is special friends 'sh' and 'th'. Special friends are sets of letters that make one sound. In this case, two letters that make one sound. As always, we love seeing your reading at home and your lovely writing that comes into school!  

• Speedy sounds lesson - sh 
• Speedy sounds lesson - th 

Have a look at some of these writing ideas for children to apply their phonics skills at home.

For the children in F1, can you blend together what Fred is saying in this Fred talk video.

• Fred Talk - Feelings 

In Nursery next week, the children will be focusing on their voice sounds and the different sounds they can make. Here are some activities that you could try at home.

 

We are starting our White Rose topic on First, Then and Now and solving number problems (see Handa's surprise blog post for more information on White Rose topic breakdown).

Here are some ideas you could try at home linked to our topic.

This is also a great game, if the children are feeling up to a tricky problem-solving challenge! 

 

 

 

 

 

Our story of the week is 'Handa's Surprise' ... Another one of our favourites! Watch the animated version of the story below. 

What is your favourite fruit? Can you re-call any of the cheeky animals from the story? Have you ever felt surprised? 

Can you draw a story map to re-tell the story? Have a look at some of our 'Handa's surprise' inspired actvities to try at home (attached at bottom of the post).
As always, we would love to see what you get upto on Tapestry! 

We will be also learning this traditional African folk chant which has a great beat. Sing along at home!

 

We are continuing to use the blog to practise the sounds we are finding particularly tricky in our reading and writing.

This week we have special friends 'ng' and 'nk'... Special friends are two letters that make one sound.
Click the links to watch the videos and practise sounds, 'ng' and 'nk'.

• 'ng' speed sounds video 
• 'nk' speed sounds video  

We are also trying to embed our red words, spotting them in our ditty books and applying them to write simple sentences. Red words are tricky words, that often appear in texts, they usually can't be sounded out and having 'tricky letters' in them.

Watch this video, Rosie will help you to remember tricky words 'the' and 'no'.

• tricky red word video 'the' & 'no' 

Our F1 children are doing a brilliant job at 'Fred Talk' games in Nursery... Pushing sounds together when they have been segmented. Watch this this 'Fred Says...' video  or play your own Fred talk game at home. 

 

We are getting so whizzy with our maths! This term, we are starting a new scheme of learning in our White Rose programme called 'to 20 and beyond' find the breakdown of the coverage following this link to the White Rose website. Also, check out the scheme of learning attached below, which has lots of activity ideas you could try at home. 

Follow this link this link for some great interactive, ipad friendly games that will help children consolidate numbers to 20. 

.This number block episode is all about the 'teen' numbers! 

Get moving and singing at home with this great African 'A lion has a tail' song.

 

We hope you all had a fab Easter break together and enjoyed the lovely sunshine! Fingers crossed the wonderful weather stays 🌞🤞

If you fancy sending us any photos of what you’ve been up to during the holidays, please feel free to send them in on Tapestry. The children always love sharing these in class. 
We can't wait to see you all on Tuesday! 

Our new big idea for the next half-term is... 'The Big Wide World'

In the Big Wide World project, your child will find out about the amazing world in which they live! They will learn about different climates and explore habitats and the animals that live there. They will locate the United Kingdom on a world map and compare life in the United Kingdom with life elsewhere. We will be learning about different cultures, celebrating differences and talking about how we are all wonderfully unique!

How you can support your child at home:

• Share and discuss our ‘Big Ideas’  poster (see clearer PDF at the bottom of the page).
• Use Google Earth to explore where you live and look up places you would like to visit.
• Talk about places around the world you have visited, or places that family members or friends live. Look at the places on a map and talk about ways you might travel there.
• If you've been on holiday, send in photographs of where you went for the children to talk about in class. If you go away, send a postcard to school, and we can add to our United Kingdom or world map.
• Watch episodes of ‘Where in the world’ on CBeebies. What can you find out about life in other countries?

This week our story has been about the Three Billy Goat's Gruff.

One of our challenges was to design a Troll using clay. 

Have a look at our collection of Trolls we made. Click here for the gallery of Trolls 

We have had lots of fun this week learning about science.