Our highlight this week was watching the P7 show. We made a short video to say well done.

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A reminder to please name all items of clothing, water bottles and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires an item belonging to someone else.

This week’s homework

• Please continue to revise the tricky words.
• You may choose to play this game to support revision of number bonds.
• Start learning to tie your shoelaces, ready for p2

Independent learning

The children have been developing a wide range of skills through independent learning opportunities in class and outdoors. We also enjoyed our trip to the walled garden.

Literacy.

This week we have been continuing to revise our tricky spelling words.

Our writing prompt this week was our caterpillars.

We continue to use core reading book resources in school as we begin to develop developing the children’s reading comprehension skills, exploring the cognitive strategies of activating, inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, searching/selecting, summarizing, and visualising.

Maths and numeracy

In numeracy we continue to develop our Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning strategies.

These include additive and subtractive problem solving, forward and backward number sequences, sharing into equal groups, numeral recognition, partitioning of tens and ones, recognising patterns in number etc…

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Looking ahead to next week

Please note that all learning stories and comments sheets were due to be returned on Friday 9th.

Please return by Monday if not already done.

Other areas of the curriculum

We enjoyed a visit from Ali who came to sing some songs to us.

We released our butterflies – they were slow to fly away, but that gave us lots of time to observe them closely.

We planted nasturtium seeds and made a leaflet about how to look after them.