Dear Parents/Carers,
Important Information
We hope you had a lovely week. Looking ahead to the week after the holiday, please remember that Monday 23rd October is an in-service for the staff, so we look forward to welcoming the pupils back on Tuesday 24th October.
We have a session of Loose Parts on Wednesday 25th October. Please come dressed for the weather!
We have worked on our reading books in class this week but will not be sending them home over the holiday. We are still waiting for some to be returned so if you have a book at home, please return it as soon as possible to enable other groups to use the set of books.
Here is a summary of our learning.
Literacy
Writing – We wrote a final set of instructions. This week it was themed around a magic spell! There were lots of creative ideas as well as the bossy verbs, capital letters and full stops required!
Reading – We have been working hard on our new reading books in class. There have been lots of good discussions on how to work out new words.
Spelling– We all now know which block of tricky words we are working on. This week we made wordsearches and swapped them with a partner. At the parent consultations we handed out a list of the tricky words so please continue to work on these at home too.
Phonics – We have been learning to recognise igh and y. For example, high, sky, fly, right.
Ideas for learning at home
- Continue to practise reading and spelling the tricky words that your child is working on. One idea is to play snap. Use 2 sets of cards with the words. Lay out a large piece of paper and a pen in the middle of the table. When the words match, rather than saying the word to win the cards, you have to grab the pen and write the word to win the cards.
- Look for igh and y words in books and in the environment. We found lots of these in our reading books this week! Ask your child to write a simple dictated sentence using the sounds for example ‘A bird can fly.’ Or ‘I am right.’ Do they remember capital letters, full stops and finger spaces?
Maths
- We continued to read and interpret pictograms and bar charts.
- We have been revisiting how to form the digits 2,3,4 and 5. We did this on whiteboards and then into our handwriting jotters.
- We have been recognising and ordering 2 (and in some cases 3) digit numbers. We focussed particularly on the difference between teen and ty numbers. For example 14 and 40 sound very similar but are very different!
Ideas for learning at home
We have really enjoyed using this game on the interactive whiteboard.
Caterpillar Ordering – An Ordering and Sequencing Game (topmarks.co.uk)
Practise forming the digits 2,3,4 and 5 in particular. You could use chalk, coloured pens, paint, anything to keep this fun! This is the correct formation:
Other Areas
- We continued to develop our rugby skills in PE as well as other ball skills.
- We enjoyed using paint to create autumn trees in art.
- We enjoyed assembly which was about climate change and also a relaunch of the school house system.
Have a wonderful October break,
Mrs McFarlane
Buckstone Primary School 