Tiggers have been busy learning the story of the Bear Hunt and using a writing frame to tell the story, practising our Fred Fingers for our writing, also acting it out in the role play area. The children have made some pictures using different media to represent the different parts of the story. Our role play has become deconstructed and the children have been using their imaginations to turn boxes into pirate ships, caves and racing cars.

In RE we have been learning about the early life of Jesus and what happened when he was left at the temple.  We talked about how his mother would have felt. We continued to learn about Jesus’ relationship with Mary and about how when he attended a wedding he performed a miracle, turning water into wine.

Outside we have been finding different ways to move across various pieces of equipment and mats. We have been jumping over and going under the ropes. In PE we have been balancing and controlling the ball with the hockey stick.  In Phonics, we are reading and writing simple sentences using the red words we have learnt so far. We have continued to read simple words using the sounds we know and the new ones we are learning. In Maths, we have been practising using positional language and looking deeply at the numbers 4 and 5. We have learnt a new story about a hat seller and some monkeys, the children have been following the story which has no pictures or props. In Music, we have continued to learn more songs and the children have loved Penguins Attention! The children have all been using their voices in different ways.

We have started to prepare for Christmas, apologies if it is a bit early to hear the children singing Christmas carols!

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Fir Class have been studying bar modelling in Maths as another way of visually representing numbers and helping them solve simple addition problems. They drew a picture of a bar model and then used different pieces of maths equipment to show different number bonds. We then started to look at subtraction problems but only doing them using concrete apparatus to help the children’s thinking. In English, the children have read the story of Hansel and Gretel and are drawing their own pictures and then writing parts of the story using simple sentences. The class have started learning two sounds per week from speed set group 3 but these are tricky and so we will focus on reading and spelling them within nonsense and real words.

In RE we have read and then written about the story of Jesus being presented at The Temple when he was a baby. We are also learning the carol Away in a Manger so please help your child to learn the words, they could sing it to you at home! The class also love doing lots of colouring and making some amazing models from Duplo, one of which was nearly as tall as Mr Walker!

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In Fig Class, we are still focussing on dragons both in story writing and poetry. We are writing stories about retrieving treasure from a fearsome dragon called Nogard who lives in a dark and dismal cave. The children are learning how to write story openings that set the scene and then grab the reader making them want to read more. We have thought of adventurous vocabulary that could be included – especially adjectives and verbs- and the impact these have on the reader. Next week we will be continuing the story as we enter the cave and are confronted by a range of obstacles including deep gaping pits, poisonous creatures and finally the dragon. The children are exploring poetry and using drama activities to focus on feelings. They will begin to write their own poems around dragons. In DT, the children planned and made dragon traps. They had some interesting ideas and when the traps were finished, they reflected on what worked well and what they would change were they to make them again. Throughout November, the children’s morning work has been about problem solving using representations including bar modelling to solve, support thinking and explain answers. It has been great to see everyone become increasingly confident in tackling some difficult word problems. In Maths, the children have been learning how to use column addition, including those with carry overs. They are using this method with greater confidence and accuracy. They have also been learning about money and are using column addition to work out calculations using money. 

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