This term:

In Literacy:

We are looking at the books, ‘Bedtime for Monsters by Ed Vere’ and ‘Astro Girl by Ken Wilson-Max where we will be thinking and talking confidently about responses to a book, asking questions and making connections with their own experiences. We will be exploring the text through collaborative play; role play and storytelling.

We will continue to follow the Sounds Write phonics programme. They will be learning some new sounds and working on their consolidation of the ones already learnt. We will also continue to blend and segment these sounds to read and write words. The children will really benefit from practising this skill at home by completing the fortnightly homework activity and regular reading. Weekly, the children will be provided with opportunities for free and structured writing. 

In Mathematics:

This term we will be exploring the composition of numbers 6 to 10. We will continue to encourage the children to subitise numbers to 10; recognising amounts of objects without counting. We will also be connecting quantities and numbers to finger patterns and explore different ways of representing numbers on our fingers. We will finish the term by developing our knowledge of special reasoning through looking at different patterns.

Look what we've been up to in Owls 

Week 1 -

It has been lovely to see all the children coming back to school with such a positive attitude to their learning. In Understanding the World, we have started our new topic on space and have learnt about a few famous astronauts. In Literacy, we have been looking at our new book ‘Bedtime for Monsters’. We have had great fun designing our own monsters and making escape plans and signs to scare monsters away. In Maths, we have been practising counting forwards and backwards to 20 and our 1:1 correspondences to 10 and 20.

Week 2 - 

This week in Owls was off to a ROCKIN start with the launch of TT rockstars across the school. The Owls have been working hard in maths learning to subitise the numbers 6 and 7. They have used a ten frame and we are beginning to recognise how 6 can be made up of 3 ‘lots of’ 2 etc. We are nearing the end of our literacy scheme on ‘Bedtime for Monsters’ and we have been talking about the monster in our story and how he wasn’t mean after all but just wanted bedtime kisses. During the afternoons this week, we have enjoyed some rockstar music and dance/movement in PE.

Week 3 -

This week in Owls class, we have been continuing with our Space topic by making our own alien masks in Expressive Arts and Design. In Literacy, we have been looking at our new book ‘Astro Girl’. We have spent the week sharing our own photos and memories from home, we enjoyed seeing the adults’ photos too. In Maths, we have been consolidating our learning on the numbers 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. We have learnt that they are made up with our ‘five and a bit hands’, e.g., 5 and 1 make 6.

Week 4 - 

This week in Owls class, we have been continuing with our Space topic by making our own alien masks in Expressive Arts and Design. In Literacy, we have been looking at our new book ‘Astro Girl’. We have spent the week sharing our own photos and memories from home,  we enjoyed seeing the adults’ photos too. In Maths, we have been consolidating our learning on the numbers 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. We have learnt that they are made up with our ‘five and a bit hands’, e.g., 5 and 1 make 6.

Week 5 - 

This week in Owls class, we finished off our learning about the book ‘Astro Girl’. We really enjoyed finding out why Astrid was so interested in space. Her mum was an astronaut! In Maths, we have been showing the adults how amazing we are at counting to 20, recognising and ordering numbers to 10 and subitising numbers. All the adults are so proud of how well the children did on Wednesday with their independent sentence writing in Sounds-Write. In Understanding the World, we got to watch Miss Stephens make a rocket with Coca Cola and Mentos, we also got to make our very own star sensory bottle!

Week 6 - 

Owls have been working hard in their sounds write over the past few weeks and we would like them all to know how proud we are of them and their progress. They are all really wowing us! We are really looking forward to our author visit this week. Abbie Asadi will be coming in to talk about her book ‘Startstruck Dreams’. We have been exploring dreams in our literacy lessons and have written our own dream stories. In maths we have been starting to look at partitioning numbers. Our exploration of our termly topic of ‘Space’ is drawing to a close, and the Owls have been busy making incredible models that they have shared with their peers.

We hope all of our Owls enjoy their, very well deserved, half term break!