Beechwood Primary School

Foundation Stage Blog – 10 March 2017

In Foundation Stage this week we have used the story Why I love my mummy to talk about the special people in our lives and what they do for us. During ICT the children developed their ability to use a keyboard when type sentences, whilst referring to an a-z letter strip containing both upper and lower case letters for support. It was fantastic to see the children persevering when searching for a letter on the keyboard. We also talked about the ‘enter’ ‘delete’ and ‘space bar’ keys.

This week’s Maths began with a recap of o’clock and telling the time, which led into sequencing events into time order. Following this the children explored heavier and lighter when measuring the weight of different classroom objects. They predicted how many cubes an object would weigh and then accurately measured how many cubes they would need to make the scales balance with the classroom object. To end the week the children recapped their prior learning about coins and recognising coin values, they built on this knowledge when making amounts using coins, adding two priced objects and calculating change from 10p.

Next week the children will be exploring place value and understanding how two-digit numbers (1-30) are split into tens and ones. It would be wonderful to hear ways in which the children have explored numbers in the local environment (e.g. numbers on clocks, buses, road signs) at home.