This week has seen yet another busy week of learning for our children! We have been busy team building in PE, taking turns to complete relay races. We have really enjoyed making the most of the sunshine this week and have spent lots of time learning outside!
Literacy
This week’s book follows on nicely from our learning in Science week last week. We are reading the book Jasper’s  Beanstalk. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23INhyreb8M
We start every day by singing a days of the week song and discussing the weather. This has helped us a lot whilst reading Jasper’s Beanstalk as we were able to join in with the story, remembering which day follows the previous one.
We have been enjoying learning some new vocabulary including tall, taller, tallest, short, shorter, shortest. We are beginning to get quite good at using these words to describe and compare different items and their height, just like Jasper’s Beanstalk!
Maths
As it links so well to our Literacy book this week, our maths has all been about measuring. We have loved exploring different materials and ways to measure during our explore time.
Phonics
It was lovely to see some of you join us for the phonics workshop this week. Don’t forget there is still time to sign up for next week’s session if you would like to! We have been reviewing the sounds we have learned so far and are very impressed with how well the children are picking them up, as well as being able to recognise them in different places such as in the environment, on display, in their names and even in books!
How you can help at home:
* Practise the sounds we have taught so far: satpinmdgo
* Play phonics based games such as pairs or I Spy
* Practise clapping words and counting the syllables together. For example….. how many claps for your name? How about mummy? Mummy would be broken into two syllables: Mum-my so we would clap twice.
* Continue to practise using the words to describe the position of things. Eg the chair is under the table or teddy is next to rabbit.  Use the words in front of, next to, behind, underneath, on top of.Â