Dear Parents,
We hope you had a great week.
Important information
- My sincere apologies as I forgot to send the reading books home today. As this is a showcase of learning they have already completed the learning intention for this week. Books will be sent home on Friday as usual.
- Loose parts on Monday 13th.
- Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Some children took them home after needing them in but haven’t returned them back to school. Please label all the items.
This is a summary of our learning this week:
Literacy
This week we have learned the vowel diagraphs ou/ow. Here is a video that you could watch at home if you would like to revise the learning:
Here is another video:
We have practiced our reading skills: prediction, inference, summarising, etc.
We have introduced new tricky words from block 4: word, world, work. It would be very helpful if your children practice to read and write these words and previous blocks.
In writing we wrote the continuation of the story The Storm Whale. We read the beginning and we had to think about what was going to happen after.
We have started to practice cursive handwriting. This week we have practice i and l. See the link below of the formation we are practicing at school.
Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)
Ideas for learning at home
- Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.
- Read, write and make the words: mouse, house, loud, sound, shout, south, round, count, out, ground, cow, town, powder, flower, etc. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the ou/ow letters and circle them. Ask your child how many letters the word can has and how many sounds.
- You can play this free online game:
https://ictgames.com/phonicsPop/index.html
– Please continue to read stories to your child at home.
– Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.
Maths
We have been working on angle, symmetry and transformation. We have been learning to use technology and other methods to describe, follow and record directions using words associated with directions and turns including, full turn, half turn, quarter turn, clockwise, anticlockwise, right turn, left turn. We have used Bee bots and the Bee Bot app on the IPads to reinforce our learning.
At school the children have enjoyed playing this game:
https://pbskids.org/peg/games/hungry-pirates/
Ideas for learning at home:
Ask your child to explain to you:
- How to get from the kitchen to the toilet ( and from different rooms to other rooms). You can pretend to close your eyes and your child has to give you instructions (step by step).
- How to get from the school to the park.
- Blindfold Game: Create a maze for your child using items like cushions, pillows, bed sheets and other items that won’t harm or hurt your child. Now blindfold your child and give them directions, like “turn left,” “walk straight,” etc., till your child comes out of the maze. Now blindfold yourself, and ask your little one to give you the correct directions. This fun activity will help you to teach directions to your child easily.
Other areas
Art
We have finished our Diwali lanterns.
PE
We have worked on pre- basketball skills: we can bounce a ball while we walk, we can do chest passes and we have started to learn how to shoot a basketball to the basketball hoop.
RME
We are learning about Bible stories. This week we have learned about Jonah and the whale.
SCIENCE
We had a great time learning about sound. We were given six paper cups and the challenge was to do something different with them. The children thought about different ideas: megaphone, microphone, headphones and a telephone. They were able to work out that all those items had something in common: sound! So we have been learning a little bit about sound.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs de Bonrostro
Buckstone Primary School 