This week we presented our nativity to our grown ups. After lots of practising the children pulled off a good show, we hope you enjoyed it too! Here are some pictures from the big day:

For maths we have been counting in twos. We’ve been looking at physical resources and placing them alongside a number line to count in twos.

Next week:

Maths – We will be continuing to count in twos. Please support your child with this at home, by encouraging them to count in groups of two. The best way to consolidate this skill is to count with physical objects, such as toys. You could ask, how many groups of two are there?

English – We will be having a big focus phonics next week, and ensuring children use all the phonics that we know to successfully write sentences. If you know your child is unable to confidently use their phase 2 or phase 3 sounds, these are the sounds children learnt in Year R, please make this a real focus to practise at home.

4 more school days to go until the Christmas Holidays! Monday is Christmas dinner day for KS1…

Our focus book for this week is The nativity. We had a look at the language and had a go acting some of it out, e.g. gazed, astonished, travelled etc. We noticed that they all have ed endings and reminded ourselves that this means it had already happened.

We then retold the first part of the nativity story and wrote it in our English books.

For maths we have been learning how to count in twos. We know that when we are counting in two we are counting two lots of something. We made a sock number line, ensuring we were counting in twos.

Next week:

English – We will be writing the middle part of the nativity story. Can your child tell you what happened after Mary and Joseph travelled on a donkey?

Maths – We will be continuing to explore counting in twos. We will pair this  with a number line and draw a jump of two. Please encourage your child  to count in twos at home.