Hello Hedgehogs and Hedgehog Parents,
It's Nativity season at Whaddon! The Year 1 children have been busy rehearsing and have words to learn in their book bags. The Reception children have not yet joined rehearsals but they will do towards the end of next week. With Christmas Decoration Day next Wednesday, we will soon be feeling all the joys of the season!
The children have been learning about instructions and this week they created some instructions for 'How to Catch a Gruffalo'. The Year 1 children are in the middle of writing their instructions and are doing a fantastic job of it; they've been learning all about imperative ('bossy') verbs and putting time words at the start of their instructions. When the instructions are finished, we will put them into practice to see how effective they are at helping us to catch that gruffalo.
Maths this week:
Reception children have been subitising to 4 and have been making lots of different patterns with 4 counters. They have also started to look at 'more' and 'fewer' this week, using numbers to 5.
The best way to practice 'more' and 'fewer' is just around the house. Who has more lego bricks? Who has fewer peas on their plate?'
Year 1 children have been looking at positions; naming positions from 1st to 10th and describing each other as 'behind', 'before' and 'between.'
For extra practice, use this photo of the children (who were here) in a line and write sentence using 'behind' before' and 'between', or '1st' '2nd' (etc). For example you might write 'Dhwani is before....'. Parents, please scribe the sentences if this makes the maths easier!
Phonics this week:
Reception children have added 'b' and 'f' to their collection of sounds.
They have started to learn to form the 'robot arm' letters correctly, which all start with down, up and over. It would be great if you could practice these at home - here is the letter family.
Year 1 children have been learning the vowels! They have learnt the short vowel sounds (a as in bat, e as in bed, i as in tip, o as in top and u as in tub) and should be able to show you the action we do to remember them.
They have learnt an important spelling rule to go with the short vowel sounds:
The 'k' sound after a short vowel sound is usually spelt ck
On Monday they will also be learning that:
The 'ch' sound after a short vowel sound is usually spelt tch
Here are the words for next week's spelling challenge, using those rules.
Have a good weekend!
From Mrs Simpson
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