We are ' The Very Hungry Caterpillars'


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Golden Friday


Every Friday we celebrate our learning (Golden Time)

It is a reward when we listen, take turns, and share, we are kind and helpful, we look after the things in our classroom. 


This week we celebrated our story ' The Very Hungry Caterpillar' 

We had a 'Fruit Smoothie Party'












Mathematics

This week in Math, we continued working in our groups. Focused mainly on reciting numbers 1-10

  • Counting to 10 in order
  • Counting objects that cannot be moved
  • Recite numbers to 10 in an irregular order






































Unit of Inquiry

This week we have busy with our summative assessments. Please check your Tapestry notification for this.


     Communication and Language/Phonics

We continued working on our 'Alliteration' 
We are now beginning to show more confidence with initial sounds in words. 

After half term break, we will work on recognising initial words in simple CVC words.





































































Literacy

Book of the week

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

- We read the story
- We were able to say each day of the week and what the caterpillar ate each day?
-We decided to make one big home for the caterpillar and worked as a team to build communication and social skills. Building the house of the caterpillar was an absolute learner's choice and how they wanted it to look like!
















































Outdoor Learning this week!
We added our music area. Exciting!





















































                      Home Learning challenges

Phonics/Alliteration

Go on a letter sound hunt! Look around at home or in an outside area and find things beginning with the same letter sound. Can you find 3 things beginning with ‘t’? What other letters can you choose? 


Next Week 

Wellbeing/Meditation

Friendship - what is a friend?


Learning Target-  Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations, and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.

Activities - Flowers bloom meditation



 Unit of Inquiry“Who We Are ” within the central idea  "We are learning about who we are in relation to others and our environment"



Reflection time:  Discuss our families and talk about the things we enjoyed during this Unit.


Give prompts like: Did you like having pictures of your family in the classroom, where can we move them to? Can we keep them here for the whole year?




Mathematics

Learning target:

  •  Shows an interest in numerals in the environment. 

  •  Shows an interest in representing numbers.

  •  Shows interest in shapes in the environment. 


Continue working with numbers in order 1-10 





Literacy/Talk4writing

Learning Target: Shows interest in illustrations and print in books and print in the environment. 

Looks at books independently.

Handles books carefully.


Book of the week: The Very Hungry Caterpillar



Monday-    Reread the story and repeat the days of the week


In groups:


  1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar matching game

  2. Food posting

  3. Hungry Caterpillar handprint


Extension: The very hungry caterpillar loves to eat lots of different foods. What is your favourite food? Draw a picture of your favourite food on the floor book and share it with the rest of the class. 




Tuesday-   Butterfly lifecycle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1S8WzwLPlM



  1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar matching game - Phibz

  2. Food posting - Dae

  3. Hungry Caterpillar handprint - Oh


Extension: Draw or paint a picture of a caterpillar or a butterfly. What colours do you need?  Use paint to make patterns on our butterfly.


https://www.bigactivities.com/coloring/insects/butterflies/butterfly3.php




Thursday-  Make the story map to retell the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’


Extension: Story sequencing The Very Hungry Caterpillar





Golden Friday -      Reflection time- Discuss all the stories we have read. Which one was our favourite? Scribe or draw on our floor book




Communication and Language/Phonics


Learning Target:

  • Is able to follow directions (if not intently focused on his/her own choice of activity). 

  • Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories



Aspect 5: Alliteration ( Continue with alliteration until half-term)

Objective: To hear differences in the sounds at the beginning of words.

Practice writing names and using name puzzles in the phonics area - 

Write my name app on Ipads - Available every morning for the children to practice their names. 







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