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Spring 1 (Come Fly With Me) Week 2 12th-16th January

Phonics

This term we will be working on consolidating our knowledge of the Set 1 special friend sounds (sh, ch, th, qu, ng, nk, qu) and we will also be starting Set 2 sounds (ay, ee, igh, ow, oo, oo, ar, or, ou, ir, air, oy). Please practise these at home with us daily alongside reading.

Reading

This week we have focused on the story of 'Dragons in the City'. This has helped us to find out about how Lunar New Year is celebrated around the world.

Writing 

This week, we have started writing our own books about Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year). Our first sentences have included 'I can see a fan' and 'I can see a drum'.

Maths

We have been learning about numbers to 10. We have recapped finding one more and one less, using cubes to help us. We have also focused on the representation of numbers to 10 and finding different ways of showing each number using classroom resources. Finally, we also focused on subitising, which is being able to say a number at speed when shown an amount represented by dots, such as on a dice.

Big Picture

 Our topic this term is 'Come Fly With Me'. We have loved our learning this week about China and have made our own clay dragon eyes. We used slip, which is water and clay mixed together, as the 'glue' to stick pieces of our clay together and we used clay tools to create a scaly pattern on them. After, we painted them. We've also made paper lanterns. We also had a chinese feast earlier in the week which included noodles, egg fried rice, prawn crackers, vegetable spring rolls and dumplings. We thoroughly enjoyed this and have drawn and labelled some of these foods we tasted too.