Understanding the world and Expressive Arts and Design

        

This term, we have enjoyed talking about the journeys we have been to and the vehicles we can use to go to our favourite destinations. We looked after our caterpillars and after spending two weeks in their cocoons, they became butterflies! We released them and we used our imagination to think about what journey they are going to next. We went to Hertfordshire Zoo and had the farm at school to look at different animals and talk about what they eat and where they live.  The end of term was very exciting for us as we are getting ready to go to Year one and we started to explore the KS1 playground.

 

Maths

 

In maths this term, we have been busy exploring different topics. First, we have been learning to share amounts equally. This helped us find half of a number, half of a shape and solve math stories that included halves and whole numbers. We learnt that we needed to glue all the pieces together before counting the final amount. We have been doing so well with our counting that we have started counting beyond 20.

 

 

Literacy

 

This half term, we have been exploring the topic of Journeys to support our developing reading and writing skills, as well as to help us comprehend stories of adventure and exploration. We have written about our own experiences, such as where we would go on a train journey or our favourite animals from the recent zoo trip. We have also been consolidating our skills in blending and decoding, and are beginning to read decodable texts with increasing fluency.