This week we have been talking about the signs of Autumn. Outside we have been exploring different Autumn treasures such as pine cones, acorns, conkers and different coloured leaves. We used our senses to describe what they felt and looked like.  We have been making our own leaf people using different craft resources. In Maths we have been continuing our work on subitising. We had stickers on the leaves and tried hard to recall how many stickers we could see without counting them. We then represented different amounts on the leaves by using the stickers. We have also been representing numbers to 5 on a fives frame. The children explored natural resources in forest school to make and show different feeling faces.

We have been working hard on using our ‘Fred Fingers’ in phonics. Can the children show you the correct hand and fingers we use when writing CVC words? In Maths the children were introduced to the bar model as a visual to help record our work when solving Maths problems. The children have had great fun exploring the Ozobot’s. They are a miniature robot which is very clever at following lines and changing colours. The children used our work on body parts and watched carefully as the Ozobot’s moved around the template of each body part.

We have been learning all about our 5 senses. We have had great fun exploring the herbs and flowers. We used our sense of smell to describe the different herbs and made our own flower soup! Outside we played I eye spy and went on a sight and sound hunt recording the different objects and sounds we could hear. In Maths this week we have concentrated on the number three. We looked at different triangles and made repeating patterns with them. We have been working on subitising visual representations up to 5 using the dice.