Every Hat Tells a Story- Summer 2
Our whole school summer project is called 'Every Hat Tells a Story!' which aims to celebrate imagination, storytelling and creativity across our school. Each class has chosen a hat to use as a stimulus for learning. Class 1 has chosen a hat shaped like a strawberry with the following poem as a starting point...
"A strawberry hat with leaves so wide,
Where tiny summer secrets hide,
It tells of gardens warm and sweet,
Of buzzing bees and muddy feet,
Of snails that climbed in silvery rain,
And birds that sang their bright refrain,
Pop it on and you might hear...
Berry-bright stories drawing near."
Our core texts this half-term are going to be:
Phonics
In Phonics we will be consolidating our learning of phase 3 phonemes and will be focusing more on applying these in our writing:
ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
We will also begin our phase 4 phonics learning. In phase 4 phonics we do not learn any new phonemes but develop our skills in blending and segmenting words with 4, 5 or 6 sounds often using our phase 3 knowledge too
e.g. t/r/ee/s s/t/air/s, m/u/n/ch/i/ng.
Please help your child consolidate this learning at home by reading the words in your red phonics Book.
Thank you :)
Exploring Strawberries
We began our new topic by looking at strawberries. We have been busy tasting them, cutting them up to look inside, carrying out observational drawings and paintings of them and we even printed with them too! As part of our topic learning we have been talking about how they grow in the garden and we have our very own strawberry plant from Mrs Harries' allotment to look after. Hopefully we get lots of yummy strawberries from it! We think our hat belongs to someone who might live in a garden and have loved exploring forest school wearing our hat in search of inspiration as to where our learning might take us next!
