P2D Reflective Friday 24.11.23

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

Important information

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 initial blends: br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr.

Look at this video (From minute 8.27)

We have practiced our reading skills: prediction, inference, summarising, etc.

We have introduced new tricky words from block 4 (last of block 4): house, also, friend. It would be very helpful if your children practice reading and writing these words and previous blocks.

In writing we wrote Jack and Jill story. We wrote what happened at the beginning of the story, at the middle and at the end.

At cursive handwriting. This week we have practice t, x, z and c. 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: brick, brown, brain, broom, drain, dream, droop, dry, drew, craw, crown, cream, crowd, train, treat, try, tram, tree, free, fright, fry, green, grain, grow, grew, greet, pray, pram, pry, etc. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the initial blends and circle them.
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 learning about time. We have learned how to tell the o’clock, half past and quarter past in an analogue clocks.

At school the children have enjoyed playing this game:

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time

Ideas for learning at home:

Ask your child to explain to you:

What time is it using analogue and digital clocks.
Talk to your child about when is time to go to bed, have tea, go to school, etc. This will help your child to have an understanding of time on their own lives.
You will find other ideas in this website: