Sunday, 27 September 2015

This weeks work.

Language.
Bonfire night safety.
Discuss bonfire night and why we celebrate it. Read the story of Guy Fawkes.
Write out a set of safety rules for bonfire night. Write the rules in emergent writing. Capital letters, full stops and finger spacing. 
Handwriting formation, practise entry stroke for the family of letters, c,o,a,
Practise set one reception high frequency words. 
Rehearse a Harvest poem for next weeks Harvest assembly. 
CVC words. Chose onset sounds for the 'in' rime. In, pin, win, dim, spin, fin, etc.
Write a sentence independently using one of these words include all elements of sentence structure independently. 
Onomatopoeia words for fireworks- Cross curricular link to the ICT lesson to illustrate. For example crash, bang, whizz, 

Mathematics.
Counting- reading numbers, I can read 1 digit numbers. Say what you see. I can read the numbers 11-20. 
Core numbers- I can understand numbers to 10. Look at numbers stories e.g. 5= 3+2, 2+3, 4+1, 1+4, 3+1+1 etc..
Learn its- double numbers up to 5. 
It's nothing new- I can double 1 digit numbers- Remeber to learn that double 1 is 2, double 2 is 4 etc. I can read a number sentence and know the symbol for addition +. 
calculate- addition. I can arrange a number sentence. 

Personal and social education.
Staying safe in Bonfire night.
What are the dangers? Why is it important to stay safe? What can we do to stay safe? What could happen if we are not safe? Cross curricular links to language. 

Working independently in the enhanced areas and staying on the task provided. Following the enhanced timetable. 

Knowledge and understanding.
Life in the 17th century.
Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods in the context of comparing present day living to how people of London lived during 1666. Group work, sorting images of now and then. Discuss the similarities and differences. 

Welsh.
Introduce
Pa liw wyt ti’n hoffi?
Dw i’n hoffi coch.
Dw i ddim yn hoffi glas.
Dw i’n hoffi mynd i’r parc.
Dw i ddim yn hoffi taflu’r dail.
Wyt ti’n hoffi cicio’r bĂȘl?
Ydw  /  Nag yd
Read the stori Yn y Garej
Lliwiau powerpoint and discuss.

Recap during daily Helpwr Heddiw time.
Beth sy’ yn y bocs?
cylch  
Dyma cylch.                        
 
Pa liw ydy’r cylch?
coch
Dw i’n hoffi coch.  
                 
Sawl cylch?
sero, un, dau, tri, pedwar, pump, chwech, saith, wyth, naw, deg

Rhifau 0 – 20
un deg un, un deg dau, un deg tri, un deg pedwar, un deg pump, un dau chwech, un deg saith, un deg wyth, un deg naw, dau ddeg 
                                
P.E.
Recap alphabet of shapes, crawling and introduce crawling soldiers.

Creative.
Salt dough bread in enhanced task.
Look at the many artistic representations of The Great Fire of London and use critical analysis to discus features and likes.
Use other Artists work to inspire our own. 
Collage a fire scene of the great fire of London. Use black sugar paper to cut out a silhouette of the city in 1666. Chose suitable fire colour tissue paper and tear and overlap. Discuss tonal features of colours when overlapped in this way. How colours can mix in paper other than just mixing paint like last weeks task. 

Forest school activities.
Enhanced tasks, make rubbings of leaves collected last week. Cut around the leaf and stick onto Autumn display.
Collect twigs to Make a salt dough hedgehog for Autumn display. 

Home learning. 
Make a 1666 3D model of a house during the Great Fire of London. These will be displayed on our Fire of London display. More information to follow.
Maths. Write down the missing raindrops.

I'm hoping to give out reading books to some of the children this week, depending on confidence with reading the reception high frequency words. 

Another very busy week.
Thanks, 
Mrs James.