ReptonPrimary School
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Week 6
This week we have asked the question, ‘How do we celebrate special times?’ We learned all about different times that we celebrate, such as birthdays, Christmas, weddings, Easter, Bonfire Night, etc.
We prepared during the week for a party for Robbie the Robin. We made party chains, party hats, decorated balloons and cupcakes and made jelly. Then on Friday we had a party for Robbie. We played party games, danced, sang Happy Birthday to Robbie and enjoyed cake and jelly.
When made jelly for our party. We noticed how the jelly cubes dissolved in warm water. Everyone had a stir and we could smell the flavours of the jelly – orange and strawberry.
In English we wrote a list of party food. Most children could hear the initial sounds and some children could hear middle and end sounds too. We used a sound board to help us write the sounds in our books.
In PSHE we learned all about the athlete Dame Kelly Holmes as part of Black History Month. We heard about her life and that she had to keep on trying to achieve her dreams. We talked about what we would like to do when we grew up and how we had to keep trying and working hard to get there.
Our PE lesson was great fun, where we played team games, including throwing beanbags into a hoop, a Breakfast game, where we ran to the other side of the hall when our food was called, whilst trying to avoiid getting caught by the catchers who turned us into jam!
In maths we learned about measures. We talked about measure; through, size, capacity and mass. We used the language to compare such as ‘small, tall, short, long, full and empty and heavy and light’. We explored size by sorting the sizes of plates and cups to match the 3 bears at picnic time. We explored how much different containers held in the water tray and sand tray, by counting the numbers of spoonfuls of sand to fill each one. We compared the mass of different objects on balance scales and used lots of language to talk about what we estimated and noticed.
In Monster Phonics this week we learned the sounds e u r. The children are practising recognising these sounds along with the others that we have learned so far. We also practised building simple cvc words and reading them by breaking them down into their single phonemes like robots. We have sent home the next set of tricky words for the children to learn. Please try and keep these in their reading diaries. More will be sent home during the year.
Please see the video in the Monster Phonics section of our class page to see the actions for these sounds and practise those from the start to r.
Have a lovely weekend!
