PPH OLC: Term 2: Week Four in PPH

Let's step into week 4:

Literacy: Listening to a familiar fairytale and learning how to remember the main parts to develop sequencing and retelling skills. As a class, we discussed the setting, the characters, beginning, middle and ending of the story. I love hearing the rich discussion that comes from a shared big book experience.

Spelling: Revising set Three letter sounds: f l o u g b and moving onto set Four; w, j,v, x,y, z, q. The main focus sounds were g for goat and w for water. The children have started to use their knowledge of their sounds to blend together to hear and make small words.

Grace and Georgie made our sound tree.

Numeracy: The children have been learning the concepts before and after. They made their own number line to write the numbers 0-10 in the correct order. They are practising learning the count on strategy where you can count onwards from any number in the 1-10 number line. Sometimes we have to go further as PPH are getting too clever at their counting.

Science: life and living Strand: The children are starting their investigation on " how to grow a broad bean". They planted their beans and we talked about the things a living plant needs in order for healthy growth . These beans are going to be observed every week as they grow. The children get to record and measure the changes. We hope to have a tall beanstalk like in Jack and the beanstalk.

This week's fairytale focus was " The Three Billy Goats Gruff". Check out the fun learning experiences that were carried out during the week to get to know and understand the story.

Big book reading and animation version