Traditional Tales

EARLY YEARS

We have started our ‘Traditional Tales’ topic and we have been learning all about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children absolutely love this story and have been enjoying enacting it in roleplay. We also made porridge in cooking time today which was fun! We are continuing with Phase 2 Phonics and this week we have been learning about all about the sound, ‘t’. We have been learning about tennis and also tractors. We made playdough tractors and the older children created farm drawings for their tractors after singing, 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm’.

PRIMARY

In Numeracy this week we have continued focusing on number operations, and we have been paying particular attention to bridging through tens. Some of us have also looked at subitising. In Literacy we have been writing our diaries, and we have been making extra effort with thinking carefully about the content and handwriting for our work. We have also been looking at writing descriptions of people and we have used Matilda by Roald Dahl to work from. In Science we are continuing our work on materials and describing them. In Topic, we have looked at the difference between different types of maps and identified areas that are wet and dry, as well as st