Dear Parents,
We hope you had a great week.
Important information:
- We hope you have received the lovely letter from your child inviting you to our Carol signing on Wednesday 13th December at 9.00 and 2.30. We are looking forward to seeing you all. Please don’t worry if can’t make it as we have recorded our performance to P7 for you to enjoy. This will be sent via email.
- Please return as soon as possible all the reading books. We are missing a few books already.
- 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 final blends: nt, ft, sp, lk.
This video is good for revision:
We have practiced our reading skills: prediction, inference, summarising, etc. This will be the last week that reading books will be sent home. We will be reading at school but not sending books home.
We have revised from block 4. It would be very helpful if your children practice reading and writing these words and previous blocks.
In writing we wrote a letter to invite you to our Carol singing. The children were very proud of their letters and worked hard on them as they knew they were for you.
At cursive handwriting. This week we have practice g and q. 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.
- Ask your child to write and read these words: loft, lift, soft, daft, raft, left, gift, sift, lent, hunt, mint, went, shunt, rent, bent, hint, dent, belt, milk, kilt, crisp, wasp, gasp, wisp, etc. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the final blends and circle them.
- 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 done a final review about time. We have been learning about sharing equally, arrays (columns and rows).
Ideas for learning at home:
Ask your child to explain to you:
- Please continue to talk about time. Ask what time it is and related to day-to-day events.
- Sharing equally:
- Playing games which include sharing out cards, items etc. Ask your child to share the cards/items equally between the number of players (can be 2 or more) and initially explain that ‘sharing equally’ means everyone will have the same amount/number of items at the end. Then when playing the same game again or a different one, ask your child how s/he will know the items have been shared equally.
Possible games: card games, Snap, Dominoes.
- Using everyday objects and sharing items between 2 or more people, e.g. sweets, biscuits, segments of an orange. Ask your child to share these items equally between the number of people who are going to have them, e.g. sharing 10 sweets between 2 people:
How many sweets do you have?
Can you share them equally between your sister and you? What does ‘share equally’ mean? How are you going to share them?
If your child does not know, then prompt by saying, “I wonder what will happen if you shared them out one at a time?”
Your child might have his/her own idea, so let them have a go (even if it is not right). If they share the items and they are not equal amounts, ask your child if s/he have shared the items equally. If your child says, “No,” then ask them why they are not shred equally and how s/he are going to solve the problem. Talking through a problem and coming to a solution is a great way to learn, so let your child make mistakes.
Your child might immediately say 5 and 5. Ask him/her how they know and s/he might say “5 and 5 altogether makes 10” or “Double 5 makes 10.”
Once the items have been shared equally, count/say how many items each person has or ask your child how s/he know the sweets have been shared equally. Promote the language, “We both have the same amount.”
Then use language, such as, “10 shared between 2 is 5, each person has 5.”
Share items up to 10 initially and then up to 20.
Share between more than 2 people, but make sure the amount can be shared equally between the number of people.
- Sharing board: place different numbers of items (up to 10/20) in the first box for the children to share equally between the 2 boxes below.
Items can be things found around the house, e.g. pasta shapes, buttons, raisins etc.
Encourage your child to use the appropriate language in their explanations.
- Videos about sharing equally:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006xcw/numberblocks-series-4-the-lair-of-shares
Other areas
EXA
We have been practicing our Christmas Carols.
ART
We have created Christmas decorations.
FRENCH
We have learned to tell our age.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs de Bonrostro
Buckstone Primary School 