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Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Topics of pupil interest this week included fish (particularly flying fish)and umbrellas.

Literacy focus

This week we introduced the letters

f and u

and we introduced the tricky words

the and he

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Here are some words to read and build. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

fin fat tub nut fog fun

Building a word. Using plastic letters or letters written on small pieces of card or paper an adult says a three letter CVC word ( consonant, vowel, consonant) and the child chooses the correct sounds to make the word.

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. This week our focus was an umbrella

Maths and numeracy focus

We continue to work on SEAL ( Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) Pupils are working and challenged at a level appropriate to their individual development. These are examples of some of the skills we have been practising :

Making arrays and counting in groups to find the total. Key vocabulary included the words rows, columns and groups

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we had on fitness session and one on travelling movements and using different levels

Miss Nicol has been talking to us about electricity, why we need it, how we use it, and how to stay safe.

Here is a game which you might like to play and use as a discussion starter at home

We learned to follow instructions to draw a fish

We made flying fish by folding and joining paper strips. It was fun to drop them from a height and watch them fluttering.

We found a break in the weather and went for our walk in the local area. Please ask us what we saw, where we walked and what we discussed.

Looking ahead to next week

Please see email communications about arrangements for Wednesday

Loose parts play on Tuesday.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Look around your house for things that use electricity. Discuss with an adult where the power comes from….. is it mains electricity from a plug and socket, or is it a battery? If it is a battery is it one that you can charge or one you need to replace.

When you are out and about keep your eyes open for solar panels and wind farms.

Count back from 20 -10

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.