This week, we have started to get into the Christmas spirit.
We wrapped presents for under the tree.
A group of children decorated the Christmas tree.
We wrote Christmas wish lists in the home corner.
We’ve made our calendars. The children will be bringing them home at the end of this half-term.
Next week, we will continue to get into the Christmas spirit. The home corner will turn into Santa’s Workshop and we will be making our Christmas cards. On Monday, we will also be doing a dress rehearsal of our Christmas sing-a-long. Foundation are fabulous singers and dancers! The video will be posted week commencing Monday 14th December.
Maths
We’ve started to learn all about the number 4. This week, the children learnt that the number 4 is a square number. We watched the Numberblock Four video and played a game with the cubes. At the start of the game, the children made a square using four cubes. When Miss Marsden shouted change, the children had to change the shape of their cubes. Occasionally, Miss Marsden shouted square and the children had to make their cubes back into a square.
- We also sorted 2d shapes that show four and don’t show four. The children were really good at using the correct mathematical language when explaining.
“This is a square. It has four sides and four corners.”
“It has one round side.”
“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. This shape has six sides and six corners.”
Literacy
Our new focus story is the Three Billy Goats Gruff. The F2 children drew a story map and remembered what happened at the beginning, middle and end. Outside, the children made a bridge and acted out the story with their friends- we saw some great acting skills!
The F1 children made bridges in their group time on Monday.
In the maths area, the children used cubes to measure and compare the size of the goats hooves. They also had a go at measuring the length of their own feet.
On Thursday, the F1 children measured their feet. They carefully drew around their shoe and counted the cubes to measure the length.
Some more great snapshots of the week…
F2 Parents
Today, your child will have brought home a learning pack. The pack has lots of resources we use in school on a daily basis. The pack includes: a whiteboard pen, wipe, number line, ten frames, part- part whole model, phase 2 sound mat, handwriting practise and phoneme frames. Please use your pack on a weekly basis to support your child’s learning. Send photos of your child using the pack to stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org.
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