We are very much looking forward to our school trip to Godstone Farm next week and, to get us thinking about the sort of animals we might see, we read several stories about Mrs Wishy Washy and her farm animals. We loved these stories and were able to read much of them ourselves, as they are full of red words and sounds that we already know!

They were written by Joy Cowley and you can revisit (and perhaps even re-read) them here:

In our phonics lessons, we learnt the special friends sound ‘ee’. This sound is pronounced in the same way that you pronounce the letter name for ‘e’ and you look like you are grinning when you say it. Here is the picture prompt that goes with this sound and the children say “ee, what can you see” to help them remember this sound.

In our maths lessons, we have been thinking about how numbers can be made up of other numbers.

We also had a go at partitioning numbers into 5 and a bit; for example, 9 is made of 5 and 4, 8 is made of 5 and 3, etc. We used ‘bunny ears’ to help us understand that numbers between 5 and 10 can be broken down into two numbers – five fingers on one hand (or bunny ear) and a number of fingers on the other hand (or bunny ear)…

We hope everyone has been enjoying the long weekend – see you on Tuesday!