Welcome to the Aquamarine class page!
Welcome to the Aquamarine class page! My name is Miss Aspinall and I am the class teacher for Aquamarine class. Aquamarine is Reception and it is also known as Foundation Stage Two (FS2). Here at Dunsville, we work closely with Amber class (Nursery) during child-initiated time within our Foundation Unit.
Miss Thomas, Mrs Shaw, Miss Atterbury, Mrs Hall and Mrs Clarke also work with us across our foundation stage unit.
Our staff in our Foundation Unit help to support and enhance our learning opportunities as we learn through play.
Every day we are busy exploring and investigating the different areas in our classroom both inside and outside. We are outdoors in all weathers and we love to explore and create our own new environments to play in!
Here are some photographs of us enjoying our classroom!
Phonics
We have been working super hard in our Phonics lessons. We have learnt 52 graphemes so far this year!
We love reading books with our partners where we can practice blending sounds to read the words.
This half term we are learning to recognise our Phase 5 graphemes such as 'ay' ("may I play?") and 'ie' (Pie on the Tie). We have been practising saying the phonemes and writing the graphemes in words using our robot talk!
We have been demonstrating what we have learnt by writing words and sentences in our Phonics books.
Please see the phonics page for more information.
Topic
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Our first topic of the Summer term was ‘Animals and their babies,’ where we learnt about different animals and their young, such as farm animals, woodland animals and Arctic and Antarctic animals. We learnt about animals that are endangered around the world and how we can do our bit to protect the environment. We learnt that different animals live in different habitats around the world. Our final topic of the year is ‘Heroes and Adventurers'. We are learning all about explorers in the past such as Ernest Shackleton who travelled to Antarctica. We discovered that some adventurers have climbed to the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world! |
Maths
In Maths we have been exploring the composition of numbers to 10. We use a variety of resources to help us explore each number such as numicon, counters, tens frames and part-part-whole models.
We practice counting up to 20 and counting backwards from 20 to 0 everyday!
Last half term we were learning about 'sharing and grouping'. We have been practicing sharing a number of objects into groups.
This half term we are focusing on developing our addition and subtraction skills. We have been reading number sentences and using resources to help us work out the answer!
Important information
We aim to change reading books once your child has read the book at least twice. Please re-read your school reading book in order to practise reading fluency and comprehension.
Wednesday– PE day. Please make sure your child brings their P.E. top, bottoms and pumps with them on this day.
Seesaw – Homework is uploaded on to seesaw each term. Please send any 'wow' moments that make you extra proud of your child so that we can celebrate them together!
If you have any questions please ask to speak to one the foundation stage team.
Thank you for visiting our class page!
Miss Aspinall