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Autumn 2 (Starry Night) Week 2 10th-14th November

Phonics

This week we have been continuing to learn the single letter sounds in set 1. Some of us have moved on to learning the first 'special friend' sounds which are 'ch' and 'sh'. Please recap phonics sounds using the sound mat that was sent home at the beginning of the week.

Reading

This week we have been reading the story of 'The Man on the Moon'. We have been really interested in aliens so have created our own 'blob' aliens using paint and straws to blow interesting shapes onto the paper. We have used play dough to create a rocket just like Bob's in the story.

Writing 

This week, we have continued our unit of writing which is a space book. We have written 2 things so far that we might see on a journey into space using our phonic knowledge. Our sentences are 'I can see the sun' and 'I can see a rock'.

Maths

We have been learning about position and direction this week. We have used positional language such as under, over, on top of, between, inside, behind etc and gave each other instructions for moving objects around the classroom.

Big Picture

 Our topic this term is 'Starry Night'. This week, we focussed on the moon landings and stars and constellations. We learnt about Neil Armstrong and how he was the first man on the moon. We watches lots of videos about space from astronauts who live in the international space station and learnt about daily life for astronauts. We learnt about how stars and burning hot balls of gas and stars form a pattern called a constellation.