Foundation Update:

What a busy and exciting week we have had in Foundation!

This week in phonics, we learned two new sounds: oi (spoil the boy) and aw (yawn at dawn). The children have worked really hard to practise reading and writing words and sentences using these new sounds, and they have done a fantastic job.

The children have also been busy finishing their Celebration Picnic books ready for next week’s picnic. Alongside this, we have been planning our own fruit salad by tasting different fruits and deciding what would be best to include. We all agreed that lemons were probably not the best choice for our fruit salad!

Our caterpillars continue to be a huge excitement in the classroom. The children have loved observing them closely and noticing how much they have grown already. We have also continued watering and observing our sunflowers, which are beginning to sprout and grow.

The weather has certainly been dramatic this week! The children were fascinated watching the hailstones come down from underneath our outdoor cover—it was very exciting and just a little bit scary!

This week we also began learning about King Charles and explored a timeline of his life. We will continue this learning next week.

In maths, we have been exploring how shapes can be composed and decomposed. The children investigated how combining shapes can create new shapes and how splitting shapes apart can make different ones too. For example, we discovered that cutting a square in half can create two triangles. We also explored how 2D shapes can be found on the faces of 3D shapes, such as a cube having six square faces.

The children have had lots of fun this week and have been incredibly creative, building amazing creations with blocks and using the outdoor resources in imaginative ways. They also really enjoyed colouring in pictures of themselves!

Have a wonderful weekend, and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Mr Thrift