In English we have read ‘The Little Red Hen.’ We have named the characters in the story and have located speech bubbles in the book. We know a speech bubble shows what a character is saying. We worked together to write speech bubbles. “Will you help me?” “Not I.” We looked at how the Little Red Hen might be feeling and wrote a letter from the animals to say sorry that they did not help and retold the story on a story map and with puppets. 

In Maths we have been  counting. We have looked at  5 as a quantity by linking the number itself to the 5 fingers on one hand. We have explored ways to represent numbers to 5 using both their fingers. We have enjoyed singing the number rhyme ‘5 Little Peas.’

In Phonics we have expored the graphemes h, b, f, l. We have identified the initial sounds in words, identified the grapheme and can say the phoneme. We also tried very hard to write the graphemes! Our new tricky word to read is ‘the,’ and we have continued to practice ‘is, I.’ We have sounded out and blended words such as log, hit, big and fat . We have played blending games such as ‘ What’s that noise?

In Learning Means the World we have been thinking about families. Thank you for sharing family photos, the children enjoyed showing these in class and talking about who is in their family. We have also started to look at our family trees.

In provision we have built farm yards for the Little Red Hen, labelled the animals, written letters and made Little Red Hen books. We have explored capacity and found out which container holds the most, made counting wands and used these to help us count objects carefully.  We have drawn portraits of our families and painted the characters from the Little Red Hen story.