💎 Phonics! 💎

This week Diamond Class have worked so hard on all their learning! 🙂 We have been so impressed.

This week we met Peter Puppy 🐶 our phonics character who taught us all about the p sound. We also met Impy Ink who taught us all about the i sound! 🖊 We have recapped the s, a, t sounds as well this week and we are so proud of all the children for remembering all these sounds and applying them when reading! 📚 What a class of superstars!! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

I have attached a link to the Letterland website below where you can find information on supporting your child with phonics and reading at home! 📚🖍😀

https://www.letterland.com/parent-guide

❤️🦶👋 Hands, Feet, Heart 👋🦶❤️

This afternoon Ruby Class enjoyed completing some music activities based on the South African song, ‘Hands, Feet, Heart’.

The children began by listening to and appraising the song, ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ sung by The Soweto Gospel Choir. The children discussed what they liked about the song and the instruments they could hear being played.

We then listened to our song for the half term, ‘Hands, Feet, Heart’ and began to learn to how play a glockenspiel along to the beat!

🐊 Maths of the Day! 🐊

Today we took ourselves outside and did Maths of the Day today! ⭐️

We started by combining PE and Maths! The children had to count how many times they could throw a bean bag to each other, wrote their number down, repeated the process and then compared the two numbers using <, > & = signs.

We then had the best time playing the crocodile and fish game! Some of us were crocs and some or us were fish. The fish wore numbers on their chests and the crocs wore bibs. The crocs (children in the middle) were given instructions such as ‘catch fish greater than 21’. You can see how much fun we had below!

🌍 The 7 Continents! 🌍

Ruby Class have been busy this afternoon recapping their knowledge of the seven continents.

The children used a map, dice and counters to take it in turns to locate the seven continents on the map. Look how much fun they had!

The children also played snap and matched the names of the continents to the correct picture.

Use this super song to help you recall the names of each continent. I think I’ll be singing it in my sleep tonight! 😴 🎶

💎😀New Arrival!! 😀💎

What an exciting start to our day in Diamond Class!

Today one of our stick insects hatched and we are SO excited to look after him. We are going to name him later using a voting system! 😀 ✉️🖍

You’ll have to look super closely to see him in the photos as he’s just a little baby just now!

🖍CHALLENGE: What do stick insects eat? Come and tell Miss Poppleton and Miss Williams Day when you know to earn a sticker! 😃💎