Friday 21st June

This week at school we have started our new Geography learning. We used Google maps to discuss the human and physical features in our local area and beyond.  We zoomed into our school from a world satellite map and discussed the features that we could see.  We identified our local park (Meadowside) on the map and looked at the route we needed to take to get there.  We drew our own maps of the route which we will follow next week to get to the park.
English
This week we drew our own story plan to help us to write our own version of Jack and the Beanstalk.
We did a fantastic job of orally telling the story and recording it on the i-pads using the voice memo.  We loved listening back to the story that we had told.
We then wrote and illustrated our own Jack and the Beanstalk books to read to Year R.
Music
In Music this week we started to learn more about pitch and rhythm using the Boomwhackers. You might like to watch this video to see how Boomwhackers make music!

Maths

This week we have consolidated our counting in 2s and 10s and recording subtraction number sentences.

We continued to practise our number bonds to 10 and 20.

Lots of children are finding it tricky to quickly and mentally recall their number bonds so would really benefit from doing some extra work on this at home.  Perhaps when you are in the car, you might play a game where you say a number and your child has to say the number that goes with it to make 8, 9, 10 or any number to 20 if they are secure.  The free White Rose 1-minute maths app would really support your child's development of this skill.






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