Our Reception children have been accessing their new RWI groups – they have made some excellent progress and we are very proud of them! We have been doing daily handwriting and hold a sentence! In our handwriting we have been working hard to sit at the table correctly - bums to the back of chairs, feet flat on floor and tummy near table. We have also been working hard to use our "perfect pencil grip" which is the tripod grip. Look at our amazing writing - I can see the progress the children have made in just one week! In Literacy, our Year 1 children have started a new unit of work our text driver is “The Smeds and the Smoos”. Our text is a short narrative, audience is Julia Donaldson and our purpose is to write a short sequel to the story. We started the week by exploring the front cover and making predictions together using a class thought board, attentively listened to the story and answered questions about it. We have learnt that capital letters don’t just come at the start of the sentence – we know that capital letters are used for the names of people, places and days of the week and for the personal pronoun ‘I’. We ended the week learning about an exclamation mark – we know it is a different type of punctation that comes at the end of the sentence to show shouting and excitement! In Maths, our Reception children have explored numbers 11-20 and how they are composed, practised quick recall of number bonds to 5, recognised the pattern of the counting system and looked at composition to 5. Our Year 1 children have measured one object with different non-standard measures and recorded outcomes, measured items using individual cm cubes and counted efficiently in groups of 2 and 10! In Science, we continued our learning on ‘Living Things and their Habitats’ – this week we learnt a microhabitat is a small habitat specific to minibeast within larger habitats, named the following minibeasts; caterpillar, spider, woodlouse, beetle, worm, slug, water boatman and pond skater, that an insect has 6 legs and a spider has 8. That a spider is an arachnid and that worms and slugs are not insects! In PE, we began our Athletic unit and practised our sprinting. Miss Overton said ‘on your marks’ - we had to approach the start line and places one foot just behind the line with the other foot approximately 50 centimetres behind with both feet facing straight forward. The opposite arm to the front leg is then held forwards ready to drive backwards on ‘go’. On the command ‘go’, we had to drive one arm backwards and the back-leg forwards, driving the foot to the ground as quickly as possible. We then practised side stepping and finished with practising our relay race!
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