Healthy Living
26th - 30th January

This week we have been learning about our sense of hearing. We played lots of listening games trying to identify environmental sounds, animal sounds and the sounds of different musical instruments.

In our literacy and phonics lessons we have been reading and writing the letter sound p and learnt the letter sound action, ‘p for pan.’

We have also been practising our name recognition and writing. We read and found our names, sequenced letters to make our names and practised writing our own names. 

  

  

  

We used paper shapes, paint and sticky eyes to create some pictures of pigs in mud linked to our sound of the week, ‘p.’

  

 

Our focus books this week have been poems, nursery rhymes and non-fiction books.

In our mathematics lessons we have continued to practice our careful counting with a focus on number eight.  We printed Numberblock characters using cubes or cuboids to print 8 squares, adding eyes, arms and legs.

  

We made an octopus and carefully ordered the numbered tentacles from one to eight.

 

In our P.E. lessons we have continued to practise our Speed, Agility and Quickness (SAQ) skills with our P.E. Coaches.  

  

Next week, we will be learning the letter sound, ‘i for insect’ and the number 9.

 

HEALTHY LIVING
Week 3
19th - 23rd January 2026

This week, we have continued to explore our five senses with a focus on our sense of touch.

We drew around our hands and explored a range of creative materials, describing what they felt like and creating a texture based collage.

    

    

We also used our feet to feel the different textures of the sensory mats. 

  

 

To expand our 'touch' vocabulary further, we had a go at exploring a feely bag full of different vegetables, all correlated to our story 'Oliver's Vegetables' and had a go at describing what they felt like.

In the story, Oliver explores Grandpa's vegetable patch, and so to support both our understanding of the story and reinforce our number of the week '7', we chose seven different vegetables to cut, stick and create our own vegetable patches.

We also completed some printing activities, expanding our mark making skills by using both vegetables and shapes to print and create a picture.

 

We went for a walk around the school and found some vegetables growing outside the year 3 classrooms.

In our phonics this week, we have begun to learn the letter sound 't for tap'. We have completed lots of literacy activities around this, writing the letter sound in lots of different ways (in sand, on chalkboards, on the interactive whiteboard), finding the letter sound in a story, and learning some new words that incorporate the sound, such as; tap, tin, pat, tent, tiger, coat.

Next week, we are focusing on our sense of hearing, and looking further into the importance of fruit and vegetables and where they come from. We will also be learning the letter sound 'p for pan'.

 

HEALTHY LIVING
Week 2
12th - 16th January 2026

This week, we have been continuing with our topic of healthy living. We have begun to learn about our five senses and particularly focused on our sense of smell.

We explored several different scents and had a go at guessing what each one smelt like or reminded us of.

   

We also drew around someone as a class, painted in their features and labelled all of their senses in a group.

    

Continuing our topic work, we completed a sorting activity in our key worker groups, sorting foods into healthy and unhealthy categories. We also completed a more independent food sorting activity looking at recapping 2D shapes, sorting lots of different foods into their correlating shape.

 

In our literacy lessons, we have continued to learn our phase 2 phonics, moving on to the letter sound 'a for apple'.

We have been thinking of and finding things beginning with the letter sound 'a' and practising writing the letter shape.

  

We completed a sensory foam activity, drawing the letter 'a' and an object that begins with this sound in a tray of shaving foam.

We have also been focusing on reinforcing our maths from last half-term, recapping our number recognition and rote counting to ten.

 

Next week, we will be continuing to learn about our five senses, this time with a focus on our sense of touch. We will be reading the story Oliver's Vegetables and learning the letter sound 't for tap.'

HEALTHY LIVING
Week 1
5th - 9th January 2026

Our topic this term is Healthy Living.
We will be learning about how to keep ourselves healthy with food, exercise and hygiene and will learn about our five senses.

We talked about our favourite foods and drew these on a paper plate.

  

We started to talk about foods that we can eat more of and foods that we might only eat a small amount of linked to healthy and unhealthy foods and sorted toy food into two categories.

In our literacy lessons, we have started to learn the phase 2 phonics, starting with the letter sound s for sun.
We have been thinking of and finding things beginning with the letter sound s and practising writing the letter shape.

   

We drew pictures of things beginning with s and made spiders from paper and paint, carefully counting and adding eight legs.

To further embed our 'S' sound, we had an immersive phonics session focused around gardening, where we got to use words like 'soil', 'seeds', 'spades' and 'sticks', creating a home for some vegetables, in line with our healthy living topic.

   

We read the story, 'Lulu's Lunch' and retold the story by sequencing the pictures.

Next week, we will be learning about our five senses with a focus on our sense of smell and will be learning the letter sound 'a for apple.'