Spring Term Week 7: Books!

 The main theme of this week was... BOOKS. 

The children visited Waterstones on Tuesday where they were given a tour of the book shop and learnt all about what goes on there. Then on Wednesday we celebrated an early World Book Day which was just lovely. The children made a World Book Day t-shirt and a mini book (which they brought home to finish off), and they created a new front cover to enter into a competition that Mrs Bloomer set us at Waterstones. 

Aside from that, we have also managed to fit in some reading, writing and maths!

Phonics

Reception looked at the new digraph 'oo' which can make a long sound (as in moon) or a short sound (as in book).

You can use the grids and pictures here (ignore the 'ar' ones!) to play a game: each player has either the short or long oo grid. Cut out the pictures, turn them face down. Take it in turns to turn one over and say the word. If it goes on your grid, keep it and glue it down. If not, put it back. The winner is the person to complete their grid first. 

Year 1 learnt one new grapheme this week: ie. This grapheme makes two different sounds:

'ee' as in 'field'
'igh' as in 'tie'. 

Next week's spelling challenge words are here.

Maths

Reception continued subitising this week, looking at numbers 1 to 5. Once again, you can use some of these cards to play pairs or snap! For an extra challenge, ask your child how they know what a number is (e.g. they might say they saw a row of 3 with 1 on top so they knew it was 4). 

Year 1 have been ordering numbers from greatest to smallest and vice versa, and also looked at patterns of numbers within a 100 grid. You can practise this using one of two sheets - a tricky one here, and an even trickier one here. 

Have a good weekend!

From Mrs Simpson