English
Today we are going to have a go at adapting the book 'We're going on a bear hunt', changing the title to 'We're going on a zoo hunt'. When they are going on their zoo hunt get them to think about what animals they might find at the zoo and what noises they might make as you walk past them.
Maths
Topic
Music- Listen to a piece of music, think about how it makes you feel, can you clap along to the beat? Practise the song This old man, can you perform this to someone in your family?
Phonics
Mrs Clay's group
Revisit Review: Recap sounds learnt so far s a t p i n m d g o c k ck u e h r b f l ff ll
Teach phoneme/grapheme: Introduce the sound ss and explain it is a digraph (2 letters that make 1 sound)
Phase 1: Collect together some objects that have 3 sounds eg cat, dog, cup, mug, pin, pan, map, pen, pig, tap etc play I spy a c-a-t etc – as confidence grows remove objects
Miss Plumb's group
Revisit Review: Recap the sounds, pictures and songs for sounds learnt so far
Teach: Show children the grapheme f and show the picture flower and sing the Jolly Phonics song for
Practise oral blending: to ensure your child is confident with oral blending ask them to blend together the following words; j-a-m, t-a-n, v-e-t, d-i-sh, ch-o-p, k-i-ck, r-i-b.
Practise oral segmenting: Ask you child what sounds they can hear in the following words; fan, mug, kick, tick, cot, map, pot, bag, bus, bin, bug, tub. Use Fred Fingers for each sound and pinch the sounds onto the fingers when saying them.
Mrs Fullbrook's group
Learn a new nursery rhyme of your choosing.
syllable game- pick some of your child’s favourite toys and ask your child to clap out the syllables for each toy.
Pick out toys that have 1,2 and 3 syllables.
Mrs Bayer's group 1
Recap sounds letter sounds learnt so far
Introduce new sound: ure - sure it’s pure
Read words: sure pure cure
High frequency word introduce: some
Read captions: i am sure I can do it. Are you sure you had a coat on.
Pencil control cursive writing c o a d
Mrs Bayer's group 2
Recap sounds, graphemes learnt so far
Introduce new sound: x - exercise
Reading new words: box fox fix six
Introduce high frequency word: me
Oral segmenting: using the blending boards make the following CVC words ( use Fred fingers to sound out first) beg kit fin bus box six
getting ready for writing / \ + x, anti-clockwise circle, square and triangle