Our story of the week is 'Handa's Surprise' ... Another one of our favourites! Watch the animated version of the story below. 

What is your favourite fruit? Can you re-call any of the cheeky animals from the story? Have you ever felt surprised? 

Can you draw a story map to re-tell the story? Have a look at some of our 'Handa's surprise' inspired actvities to try at home (attached at bottom of the post).
As always, we would love to see what you get upto on Tapestry! 

We will be also learning this traditional African folk chant which has a great beat. Sing along at home!

 

We are continuing to use the blog to practise the sounds we are finding particularly tricky in our reading and writing.

This week we have special friends 'ng' and 'nk'... Special friends are two letters that make one sound.
Click the links to watch the videos and practise sounds, 'ng' and 'nk'.

• 'ng' speed sounds video 
• 'nk' speed sounds video  

We are also trying to embed our red words, spotting them in our ditty books and applying them to write simple sentences. Red words are tricky words, that often appear in texts, they usually can't be sounded out and having 'tricky letters' in them.

Watch this video, Rosie will help you to remember tricky words 'the' and 'no'.

• tricky red word video 'the' & 'no' 

Our F1 children are doing a brilliant job at 'Fred Talk' games in Nursery... Pushing sounds together when they have been segmented. Watch this this 'Fred Says...' video  or play your own Fred talk game at home. 

 

We are getting so whizzy with our maths! This term, we are starting a new scheme of learning in our White Rose programme called 'to 20 and beyond' find the breakdown of the coverage following this link to the White Rose website. Also, check out the scheme of learning attached below, which has lots of activity ideas you could try at home. 

Follow this link this link for some great interactive, ipad friendly games that will help children consolidate numbers to 20. 

.This number block episode is all about the 'teen' numbers! 

Get moving and singing at home with this great African 'A lion has a tail' song.

 

We hope you all had a fab Easter break together and enjoyed the lovely sunshine! Fingers crossed the wonderful weather stays 🌞🤞

If you fancy sending us any photos of what you’ve been up to during the holidays, please feel free to send them in on Tapestry. The children always love sharing these in class. 
We can't wait to see you all on Tuesday! 

Our new big idea for the next half-term is... 'The Big Wide World'

In the Big Wide World project, your child will find out about the amazing world in which they live! They will learn about different climates and explore habitats and the animals that live there. They will locate the United Kingdom on a world map and compare life in the United Kingdom with life elsewhere. We will be learning about different cultures, celebrating differences and talking about how we are all wonderfully unique!

How you can support your child at home:

• Share and discuss our ‘Big Ideas’  poster (see clearer PDF at the bottom of the page).
• Use Google Earth to explore where you live and look up places you would like to visit.
• Talk about places around the world you have visited, or places that family members or friends live. Look at the places on a map and talk about ways you might travel there.
• If you've been on holiday, send in photographs of where you went for the children to talk about in class. If you go away, send a postcard to school, and we can add to our United Kingdom or world map.
• Watch episodes of ‘Where in the world’ on CBeebies. What can you find out about life in other countries?