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Autumn 2 (Starry Night) Week 7 8th-12th December

Phonics

This week we have been embedding our learning from the Sutumn of our Set 1 sounds. this includes all single letter sounds and the 'special friend' sounds which are sh, ch, th, qu, ng, nk, ff, ll, ss, zz and ck. Please practise these at home to ensure recall is speedy.

Reading

This week we have focused on the story of The Gingerbread Man.  We have acted out the story using puppets and joined in with the repeated phrases such as 'Run, run and fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man!'. We have created our own gingerbread men in the creative area and also drawn pictures of the characters from the story.

Writing 

This week, we have completed our final unit of writing for this term which is a Christmas list for Ted. We used the sentence stem 'Ted wants...' and wrote simple words such as 'dog', 'bag', 'doll' and 'pen' using a sound mat to support us.

Maths

We have been learning about shapes with 4 sides. We have learnt the names for rectangle and square and some of the similarities and differences between these. 

Big Picture

 Our topic this term is 'Starry Night'. This week, we focussed on advent and Christmas. We have engaged in lots Christmas crafts and have also made mince pies and practised our Christmas songs.