Week beginning 8/6/2015

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Pentecost – we will talk about how the disciples felt during Pentecost and using talk partners discuss times when we have felt frightened or worried.  Why? How would Jesus’ friends have felt in a dark room all alone?
We will sing Alleluia and read the Story of Pentecost from the Bible again. We are going to focus on the feelings of the disciples before they received the Holy Spirit and afterwards. We will talk about the Holy Spirit -sometimes things happen but we can’t see why (effect of wind blowing) and Jesus had promised to send the disciples the Holy Spirit. On Pentecost day they remembered that Jesus had kept his promise.
We will all use music and movement as a way of expressing the different thoughts and feelings of the disciples before and after receiving the Holy Spirit from Jesus and we will experience the feeling of a strong wind (fan) like the disciples and use percussion instruments to express how they would have felt before and after receiving the Holy Spirit from Jesus.
We will also share the story of the stories from the Bible and the Wednesday Word.
Communication, language and literacy
This week’s story is “The Pig in the Pond”. We will read the story together, retell, draw and write about what happened to the animals on the farm. We will hear, say and write the sounds in words and learn how to write high frequency words e.g. he, the, and, because.
We are going to play the game “Full Circle” changing the sounds in words to make new words.
Every day we are going to practise our handwriting skills – forming our letters correctly, the same size and writing on the line.
Mathematics
We will use the farm resources to practise addition and subtraction skills in the context of the Pig in the Pond story. We will find total, using the correct addition and subtraction vocabulary within 20, 10, and 6.
We are also going to use the outdoor tough trays to practise addition and subtraction skills in the context of the Pig in the pond story.
3D shape creations – we will use 3D wooden shapes to build a model of our choice and then talk about our model to our friends – talking about the shapes we have chosen and why we have used certain shapes for given purposes.
We will practise recognising and ordering our numbers to 20 and soling real life number problems.
Physical Development
PE session – large and small ball skills
Outdoor wheeled toys/hoops/bean bags
Cutting activities
Understanding the world/Expressive arts and design.
Pentecost dance.
Pentecost flames collage. (Reds, yellows and oranges)
Free creative
Free role play.
Expressing feelings.
Singing Pentecost songs – We are one in the spirit.
Caterpillars – observation – observe any change to date.
Environment –Comparing where we live to a seaside environment.
Pentecost - celebration.
ICT Paint it independent pictures.
Espresso – feelings.