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 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 practised 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 practise reading and writing these words and previous blocks.
In writing we wrote the story of Jack and Jill. We wrote what happened at the beginning of the story, at the middle and at the end.
In cursive handwriting we worked on t, x, z and c. See the link below of the formation we are doing 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 practise reading every day.
Maths
We have been learning about time. We have learned how to tell the o’clock, half past and quarter past on an analogue clock.
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.
- 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 on this website:
- Continue to practice counting forwards and backwards from and to different numbers (within 20, 30, 100)
Other areas
Art
We have made a Christmas banner for the school hall.
PE
We have worked on pre-tennis skills.
RME
We are learning about Bible stories. This week we have learned about Noah’s ark. We made our own arks and test if they sink or float.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs McFarlane
Buckstone Primary School 