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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.

Literacy focus

This week we introduced the letters

c, k, and ck

and we introduced the tricky words

put, his

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

Use the sounds you know to read and build words. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

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. We are now beginning to write some of the words and sounds we know as part of our sentence. This week our focus was I am me

Maths and numeracy focus

We have been learning about the properties of 2D shapes and 3D objects.

We also continue to practise our number bonds of ten. These are the pairs of numbers which, when added together, total ten. The children should learn these as instant recall facts. We also talk about ‘switchers’ e.g. if we know that 8 + 2 =10, we can tall that 2 +8 = 10.

Please support your child at home to learn these facts. If they already know them, the challenge is to apply that understanding to tens numbers to 100 ( e.g. 8+ ? = 10, 18 + ? = 20 , 8 +? = 40 etc)

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 continued to make sequences of movements and travelling with our body at different levels as well as playing games which give us opportunities to practise the skills we have learned.

We had a visit from the author Morag Hood. She told us about her job as an author and illustrator and she helped us to draw a picture of the digger character from her book ‘Dig, Dig, Digger”

We have been learning about customs surrounding the festival of Diwali

Looking ahead to next week

We have started learning about the story of the Nativity. Everyone takes part in our presentation of the story and will bring home a small piece of paper on Monday with a line to learn. Please help your child to practise saying this slowly and clearly . Further information about the Nativity presentation will be sent home soon.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Look around the house for objects which are spheres, pyramids, cubes, cuboids or cones. Discuss how many faces ,vertices and edges you can see on the objects you have collected.

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.