Term 3, Week 4

In our Literacy lessons this week we have been reading the story of 'The Gruffalo's Child'. We spoke about all of the characters, and the order of which the Gruffalo's Child met them. As a class we created a story map on the class flipchart, with drawings of each character in the order they show up in the story. Later in the week we added the names of the characters and describing words, to our story map. The children's learning challenge this week was to create their own story map of the 'Gruffalo's Child' story. They created some lovely drawings and did a great job of writing the words they needed using their phonics knowledge.

In Maths this week, we have been learning about numbers 6, 7 and 8. The children covered the following learning topics:

In PSHE we recapped the previous learning challenges we completed and how they made us feel. We spoke about feelings and emotions and how they can sometimes be overwhelming. We learned different 'grounding' techniques to use when we are feeling difficult emotions.

Our PSED lesson this week involved listening to a story called 'We Are All Different'. We discussed the differences between us and others including our friends. We spoke about differences such as hair texture/colour, eye colour, skin tone, families, pets, likes and dislikes regarding hobbies and foods etc. It was lovely to share all our differences and to remember our differences make us special and we can all be friends regardless.

Dates for our upcoming open classroom events:

Many thanks for your ongoing support.

Have a lovely weekend.

The EYFS Team