Week beginning 6/10/14

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This week we will focus on God’s gift of our eyes and ears. We will talk about what we like to see with our eyes, what we can hear with our ears and why they need to say thank you to God.

We will take part in an Autumn walk around the school grounds and talk about all the different things we can see and hear. We will thank God for our beautiful world.

We will talk about the Bible, the creation story and the Wednesday Word. We will also talk about the festival of Diwali and make a diva light.

Communication, language and literacy

We will read the story ”The Gruffalo” – take part in discussion and questioning about the story – developing our speaking and listening skills. We will listen to the rhyming words in the story and learn new rhymes.

We will learn new sounds e, u, r and h and practice the sounds learnt so far - satpinmdogck. Hearing them in words, reading them and practice tracing /copy writing over sounds with emphasis on correct pencil grip and formation.

Mathematics

Again we will play different number games during the week- Bingo, lotto and dominoes. We will learn number recognition and develop our counting skills during the games as well as taking turns and playing fairly. We will focus on a different number and shape every day. We will also play a problem solving game - how many outfit combinations could we have for the teddy bear?

Physical Development

We will talk about how to take care of our teeth – a teeth cleaning set will be sent home.

We will continue to develop our fine motor skills through threading, cutting and drawing. The large wheeled toys will be explored and during PE we will practice getting dressed and undressed, moving, stopping and finding a space.

Understanding the world/Expressive arts and design.

We will observe the autumnal changes around us, look and talk about our Autumn plates we have shared and prepared at home and walk around our new school.

We will learn how to use a program on the netbooks.

In music we will use Music Express and Charanga music resources, experimenting with our voices and percussion instruments. We join Key Stage One for singing on Wednesday.

We are going to make our pictures larger more detailed, drawing an outline first. We will also paint a picture of ourselves and our favourite school activity.

Our role play area is “Kipper’s House” where we can pretend to be one of Kipper’s family.