Beechwood Primary School

Foundation Stage Blog – 24 November 2017

This week the Foundation Stage children have enjoyed exploring their new classroom and we have been free-flowing between the two classrooms during English and Maths exploration times, which has given the children even more learning opportunities. We have continued The Jolly Postman theme this week and the children have been applying their phonic knowledge to label and write about Goldilocks. Some of this week’s English exploration activities have included retelling the story of The Jolly Postman using stick puppets, making houses using junk modelling, writing CVC words on whiteboards and making CVC words out of playdough.

This week’s Maths has focused on counting a group of objects which cannot be moved, showing increasing 1:1 correspondence when counting a group of objects, counting back from a given number and matching numbers to groups of objects. During this week’s adult-led maths activities the children have been counting groups of objects and then identifying the correct numeral to represent how many are in the set, identifying one more and one less than a group of objects and counting 2 groups of fixed objects and then saying how many objects there were altogether. This week’s Topic inputs have focused on exploring different reasons for writing and the children have learnt about writing a letter, writing a postcard, writing an invitation, writing a list and writing a label.

During this week’s PE the children were excited about using apparatus to practise their jumping skills and they learnt how to land appropriately.

Within the outdoor environment the children have been practising their balancing skills using stilts and they have particularly enjoyed getting messy in the mud kitchen.