In our mantle story, the Queen had chosen a location for the castle. We created it in a tuff spot, talking about geographical features and why they are needed for castle living. we also added some animals - this led to an interesting discussion about which animals would have been around, and in England, 1000 years ago. Following the discussion, we removed the lion from the woodland the the orca whales from the river!
The following day, it was finally time to build the castle! We learnt about castle features and the children worked together to create the castle. Later, Year 1 and some keen Reception children labelled a picture of the castle using the correct words for each part. On Thursday, all of the children wrote a report about the castle for Queen Matilda.
In other learning:
Phonics
Reception children continue to work through the phase 3 digraphs. We recapped 'igh', 'oa' and 'ur/ir'.
To practice these you could play pictionary. You draw the picture, your child writes the word. Before you start, write down 'igh' 'oa' and 'ir' and remind your child of the sound they make. Some suggested words:
night
light
moat
boat
goat
bird
girl
Year 1 children have been learning spellings with the u_e and ew patterns. They will be tested on these next Friday during the spelling challenge. As always, please work on the spellings that suit your child - whichever spellings they find to be a good level of challenge. You can find the words here.
Maths
Reception and Year 1 children have all been learning about volume and capacity this week using terms such as 'more' 'less' 'full' 'empty' 'nearly full' 'nearly empty' 'half full' 'half empty'. Year 1 have also been measuring capacity.
This can be practised in any way you like around the house - talking about cups of drink, buckets of sand, half-eaten yogurts...
If you'd like to play a game, the children enjoyed this game.
Have a good weekend :0)
Miss Nash
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