Term 2
Term 2
We have lots of exciting opportunities for the children this term and we are also very excited about learning the songs and lines for our Christmas Nativity!
In Maths this term we begin to move our learning towards addition and subtraction where the children will be solving problems and applying the strategies taught to solve number calculations.
The texts we shall be looking at in English this term are 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff', 'Goldilocks' and 'The Snowman' the children will be given lots of opportunities to develop their speaking and listening skills before retelling the stories themselves.
Geography - Where in the school are we?
Design Technology - What makes a structure strong? - Bends or joins?
Religious Education - Who made the world?
Music - Why do we have to sing in time with each other?
Design Technology
Through the use of this text, the children have been introduced to structures. They then looked at a range of images and real life structures outside before learning what their strength was and what they might have been made from.
Science - sorting and grouping materials
The children were able to sort the objects according to their materials and properties today. They discussed what they looked like and felt like too.
English
In English, the children had to complete a jigsaw to make a prediction about what the story would be. They guessed correctly about it being The Three Billy Goats Gruff! Impressive conversations were had by all and great retrieval from Reception. We then retold the story using face masks to help us get in character!
Maths - fact families and number bonds within 10
During Maths this week, the children used counters and tens frame to find fact families. They linked their understanding of the part part whole model to help them recognise calculations.
We have now moved on to learning about number bonds to 10. We started out by making them practically using cubes and recording the number bond on a white board. We then continued with this learning and recorded all of the number bonds to 10 in our books.