This week's learning activities will be based around the story,
"Supertato"
Literacy Focus: -
For our literacy focus the children will be encouraged to write a character description of Supertato. The children's independent writing activities in the Writing Area will include writing speech bubbles for characters in the story and a Wanted Poster for the Evil Pea!
Phonics Focus:
The children have now been introduced to all of the Phase 2 and 3 letter sounds in the Letters and Sound Programme. We will continue to have a daily early morning phonics session focusing on: -
- The practise of all GPCs (Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence. Knowing a GPC means being able to match a phoneme to a grapheme and vice versa)
- The practise of all letter names
- The practise of blending for reading
- The practise of segmentation for spelling
- The reading of all tricky words.
- Reading and writing captions and sentences including tricky words.
Please continue to help your child to learn the sounds in their Phonics Book and complete the weekly phonics tasks we will send home. For help in how to say each sound correctly please visit the phonics website http://mrthorne.com/ which has short videos which you and your child can watch at home.
Tricky Words: -
Last week we assessed all of the children on the Phase 2 and 3 Tricky Words and sent this information home. Please continue to practise with your child at home any words which they did not know.
Phase 2 tricky words - to no I the go into
Phase 3 tricky words - he she we me be you was are her my they all
Tricky word games which your child can play online at home: -
Maths Focus: -
This week we will be continuing calculation activities with the children and they will be encouraged to subtract two single digit numbers. The activities will be practical and will be put into a meaningful context to make the activities interactive and stimulating for the children. The children will also record their work in a number sentence using the - (take away) and = (equals) sign.
Our week in Caterpillar Class: -
We have thoroughly enjoyed our week of learning activities based on the story "Supertato"
We thought of some fantastic words to help us with our character descriptions of Supertato.
We made our very own Supertatos!
Supertato is strong. I have put a belt, legs and arms and a cape with a booster packet! Isobel
Supertato is really, really strong!
The Evil Pea was up to his mischievous tricks in our classroom this week!
He's drawn on his face!
The carrot's stuck to the board!
He's trapped under the basket!
The sweetcorn is wrapped in tissue!
We wrote speech bubbles of what we thought the vegetables would be saying.
Help, help! I'm stuck to the conveyor belt!
The Evil Pea has trapped the vegetables!
We made Wanted Posters to try and capture the Evil Pea.
He is bad, he is rude, he is angry.
The Evil Pea trapped and froze some carrots! We helped the carrots to escape.
We needed to smash. We needed to get the carrot free.
Try to crack the ice to get the carrots free.
I'm smashing it, because the Evil Pea trapped the carrot.
We made mashed potato this week at school. We carefully used potato peelers to peel the carrots.
We really enjoyed mashing the potatoes and described changes to the potatoes once they had been cooked.
They're soft.
The potatoes are soft. When you cook them they're eatable. When they're hard and not cooked they're not eatable.
They're squidgy and fluffy. We cooked them to make them soft.
We made jelly which trapped the Evil Pea and some of his friends. We thought the jelly could now be poisonous so we carefully used tweezers to help the peas to escape. We hope the peas will now become good peas!
It is very poisonous you mustn't touch the jelly or you will become evil!
The jelly is soft and wobbly.
In our ICT session this week we drew pictures of Supertato and the Evil Pea and some of us even created our very own Super Heroes and Villains.
We enjoyed drawing and writing our own Supertato adventures.
The house is on fire. The pea is naughty.
We continued our maths focus on subtraction this week: -
The Evil Pea left us some subtraction questions to solve.
Our independent work at the Maths table this week: -
Supertato trapped some fruit and vegetables we had to estimate (guess) how many vegetables were trapped inside.
In PE this week we have been learning how to travel along a bench and land safely.
Use your arms to balance.
Bend your knees when you jump and land
Bend your knees and put your arms out to help you to balance.
We also learnt this week how to transport the apparatus away safely.
Our week in Ladybird Class:
We have had load of fun this week making new friends with our Veggies.
We drew our own Supertato in out books and some of us even drew on a potato to make our very own Supertato to help us describe what he looked like and what he did for his Veggie friends.
Here William is adding detail to Super Jeff (as we named him in class).
Olivia also wrote about here Super broccoli.
Patrycja and Zac are busy using their sound mats to support their writing of Supertato.
We had a go at making our own Supertato with colourful capes.
Lots of Supertato friends!
Supertato has a super belt that helps him to fly high in the sky.
What a cheeky potato sticking out his tongue!
The Evil Pea was up to his old trick, We found distressed Veggies everywhere...
Celery was wrapped in toilet tissue and placed high up on the board and on top of our speaker. 
A very unhappy Kayra found out that even Carrot had been pealed! [We made him a plaster so he would get better soon.]
We found some cheeky peas around the classroom and decided to put them into our jail. Some escaped over the week and got up to mischief.
Carrot was found sellotaped to the white board!
One day ALL the carrots and some other Veggies were all found in a frozen block of ice.
We got hammers to crack them out!
On Friday Supertato managed to catch all the peas, by getting them stuck in bowls of 'wibbly, wobbly, sticky and gloopy' jelly. 
The jelly made the peas good again, so that we could gently pick them out.
Charlie W 'I have 3 peas on my spoon.'
Zac had to, 'Go right to the bottom of the jug to get the peas.'
He even had to put some of his hand in to get to the bottom - 'It feels all squidgy and cold and sticky.'
We used potatoes to print with in a 2 part process - print and let dry.
And the next day add detail and most importantly a super cape!
In Computing we created our own Supertato and had a go at writing our name and even some of us are typing our name.
'There are evil peas in my picture too!'
'I have a supper carrot.'
Patrycja used her mouse skills to draw lots of different veggies, write her name and type her name too. Well done Patrycja for challenging yourself using all these skills.
We even managed to fit in some PE in our ever so busy week!
Safely transporting equipment and looking what a safe space to work in is.
Using 2 hands to hold up the mat.
Learning how to travel along a bench and land safely.
Arms out to balance.
Lovely dismount with bent knees to finish.
Here Chloe G is trying a bunny hop over the bench using 2 hands securely griped on either side of the bench.
Here the children are
admiring some of the work the rest of the school has produced using the book ‘The
Story Machine’ by Tom McLaughlin, which we worked with a few weeks ago. Maybe you could spot it when you come to
visit us on parents evening on the 22nd and 23rd March.
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