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Foundation Staff:

Summer 1 (Glorious Gardens) 26th April-30th 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 finished writing our sentences about what plants need including 'A plant needs a drink' and 'A plant needs light'.

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 learning to add and take away using a tens frame for support. We also played some some games to figure out 'how many did I add?' and 'how many did I take away?'.

Big Picture

 Our topic this term is 'Glorious Gardens'. We have been learning about the author and illustrator Eric Carle who wrote 'The Tiny Seed' and 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. We made our own collages of the flower from 'The Tiny Seed' by first making different coloured background with mark making tools. Then, we cut out the shapes we needed for a stem, leaves, centre of the flower and petals. We used glue to stick these down to create our pictures.