Elm

Welcome to Elm Class.

What a super short half term we’ve had! The children have been very busy this half term enjoying all of their learning opportunities.

 
In phonics, Blue group have been continuing to focus on our tricky words, and we are beginning to build sentences using our super phonics knowledge. In Green group, we are continuing to secure our knowledge of our set 2 sounds and have really been focusing on segmenting and blending CVC words, the children are becoming super blenders! In Purple group, we are having lots of fun with our phonics themed bucket every day. The children adore exploring the exciting resources in the bucket whilst learning about sounds!

 
In Maths we have been doing a variety of activities in our maths groups. In Blue group, we have been focusing on number order and what happens when we add one more. The children have enjoyed participating in maths stories and have loved our character, the mischievous monkey, who always adds one more. In Purple group we have been looking at all things shapes. The children have had so much fun exploring, creating and building with lots of different shapes. 

We covered the topic relationships in our PSHE sessions this term. We have participated in a range of activities, discussions and stories which helped us understand what it means to be a good friend as well as solving friendship problems when they happen. It has been absolutely wonderful to see the children take what we discuss in PSHE and put it into practice – we have had lots of cheering each other on this term. I am very proud of everyone. 

Every week in RE we have been reading a story from different religions and beliefs, the children have enjoyed these very much and now look forward to our weekly sessions, often asking what story we will be reading before the lesson even begins! The children even got to ask Mrs Hussain some questions about her religion when we read our Muslim story Bilal and the beautiful Butterfly which was amazing to see how curious the children were.  

We are all very excited for the last half term of the year where there will be even more fabulous learning opportunities. Where has the time gone? 

Elm Team