Hello everyone,
This is what we have been learning this week:
LITERACY
We introduced two vowel digraphs this week: oo and ee. Digraphs are two letters which go together to make one sound. We were building /writing these words : look, took, keep, beep and blending sounds together to read: moon, soon, been, seen.
Our new tricky words this week are go and my.
In writing, we had a choice of two story starts – I went to the moon……..
I see the moon………..
We are encouraging the children to use the tricky words they know and the sounds they have learned to ‘have a go’ at writing independently. If the word the child wishes to use is too difficult to sound out, they can still write the starting letter. We are trying to remember to use finger spaces after every word so that our writing is not squashed together.
We introduced reading books this week. The children have been reading in groups at the teaching table. As well as decoding the words we have been discussing title and author, talking about the characters, and predicting what might happen next in the story.
THINGS TO DO AT HOME
Hold up the digraphs and ask your child to tell you the sound they make. Ask them if they can think of a word containing that sound.
Use letters written on a piece of paper or card to ‘build’ a word. The adult says a word and the child choses the correct sounds to make that word.
An adult makes a word using the digraphs oo and ee and the child says the pure sounds of each letter to blend together to read the word.
Write down any of the Term One tricky words and the new tricky words go and my on a piece of paper or card, hold the cards behind your back then show them to your child and ask them to read the word you have shown them. Your child could practise writing these words, forming the letters the way they have been shown in class.
(If you are unsure about correct letter formation, please speak to one of us at the end of the day).
NUMERACY AND MATHS
We have continued to work on core numeracy skills: recognising numerals, saying forward number word sequences, sequencing numerals, counting items, saying the number before and after and adding numbers together in our heads.
THINGS TO DO AT HOME
Please refer to your SEAL home learning wall and pick an activity to practise.
PE
We have been working on using repeated patterns of movement to create simple sequences and plan to add music and rhythm in the next few weeks.
FLUFFY!
Thank you so much for all the entries in Fluffy’s journal. It has been lovely to see the children’s enthusiasm and eagerness to take him home. At the moment, we are just allowing the children to keep him for two nights so that everyone can have a turn as soon as possible but if you forget to bring him back to school, please don’t worry.
We really don’t want to give families anything extra to have to think about so PLEASE don’t feel you have to add to the journal. Your child will be given the chance to speak to the class about what they have done with Fluffy.
SOCIAL STUDIES
As the children have shown an interest in penguins, we have started to learn about Antarctica. We have talked about where Antarctica is and looked at the weather and seasons there. We will be learning about some of the other animals which live on this continent.
LOOSE PARTS
Next date for loose parts is Thursday 25 January.
Some examples of learning taking place this week:
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Buckstone Primary School 