Holly Class w/b 3rd October

We have been busy with all things Harvest this week in Holly Class. We loved sharing the story of The Little Red Hen with everyone in our Harvest assembly this morning and felt very special in our handmade animal headbands! We hope those of you who could join us enjoyed it too. 

In the story, The Little Red Hen learns all about the process of making bread. We have also spent lots of time singing all about it this week with our song, Do the Dough, so we thought we had better give it a go ourselves. Together we came up with some design criteria for what make a really good bread roll and each of the children drew a design to show what they would like their bread roll to look like. Then, we worked in teams to make the bread and each shaped and crafted our own bread roll. It was very exciting to get to taste our creations in the afternoon and decide if it really was a delicious as we hoped it would be. The Year 1 children also wrote some evaluations to say what they would do better if they were to make bread rolls again. 

As always, we had a wonderful afternoon at Forest School on Wednesday (and even escaped the rain!). We took the opportunity to keep practising our Little Red Hen story telling and also made some of the characters using logs and other loose parts we found in the meadow. 

In maths this week, the Reception children have been working on their 1:1 counting skills, even becoming the teachers themselves and helping Gruffalo to know what it means we we ask, 'how many?' The Year 1 children have consolidated their place value learning and moved onto working on addition and subtraction. They have been leaning about the part part whole model and how we can use this to show number sentences. 

In phonics, the Reception children continue to work on turning in when I talk to them like a robot and they are getting better and better at being able to blend the sounds they hear into a word. We have learnt the phonemes 'n' and 'm' this week. The Year 1 children have been working on the alternative graphemes for the ee phoneme this week; ea, e_e, ie, ey, and y. They have impressed me again by spotting all 6 graphemes when we were reading words! 

Another busy week has whizzed by in Holly Class, have a lovely weekend everyone!