Writing about Handa's Surprise
Today, we wrote sentences to describe what Handa is doing in the story 'Handa's Surprise'. We applied our Phase 3/4 phonics knowledge to spell, and are becoming much more confident with our use of finger spaces between words. We have also been practising the skills of using a capital letter and…
Writing a set of instructions
We wrote a set of instructions to explain how to make gingerbread men. We discussed the importance of writing our instructions in the correct order, as well as the use of verbs to tell the reader what actions they need to do. We used the skills of including a capital letter at the beginning of…
Subtraction facts
We have been learning about subtraction this week. We practised our verbal recall of subtraction facts within 5, using a prompt (e.g. number line) if/when required. Once we had worked out the answer, we wrote the number sentence to represent each subtraction fact.
A trip to Lidl!
This week, we went on a local area visit to Lidl to buy ingredients to make gingerbread men! We planned our route and walked safely along the pavements to the supermarket, discussing the importance of road safety along the way. When we arrived at Lidl, we looked at our shopping list before buying…