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Foundation Staff:

Summer 1 2 (Glorious Gardens) 19th April-24th April

Phonics

This term we will be working on consolidating our knowledge of the Set 2 sounds (ay, ee, igh, ow, oo, oo, ar, or, ou, ir, air, oy). Some of us will also start learning Set 3 sounds. Please practise these at home with us daily alongside reading.

Writing 

This week, we have been writing our stories 'All About Plants'. We have created our front covers for our books and also written about plants needing sunlight and water to grow.

Reading

This week we have been reading the story of 'The Tiny Seed' by Eric Carle. This has helped our understanding of what plants need to grow for our topic 'Glorious Gardens'.

Maths

We have been focusing on numbers from 10 and beyond. We have learnt about how numbers are made up of tens and ones and have used numicon to partition numbers between 10 and 20. We have also been practising counting with larger numbers and even managed to count up to 100 as a class!

Big Picture

 Our topic this term is 'Glorious Gardens'. We have had so much fun learning a song explaining the parts of a plant to us and what they are for. We have set up a science experiment with some different bean seeds planted... one has no soil, one no water and one no light. We are excited to see what happens to them! We have also learnt about the seasons and how they differ from one another. We explored why we have seasons too by using a globe and a torch (which we pretended was the sun).