A winter plea! I know it is not always the easiest thing to do, but it would help us so much if winter accessories ( hats. gloves. scarves etc) are named or at least initialled so that we can reunite them with their owners even when those owners deny ever having had a pair of gloves with them !!
Also, please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks
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
Our new sounds this week were ee and oo. We have also enjoyed using our phonics skills to read independently – a great sense of achievement. We continue to practise correct letter formation .
Tricky words – no new tricky words this week, but please revise recognition and spelling of all block one tricky words so far.
Writing prompt this week was ‘I can see a bee’
Maths and numeracy focus
Our focus this week was on addition skills – aiming to use a counting on strategy where possible, Some pupils have been investigating how numbers are made of bundles of tens and units.
Below are links to two games we have used in school which you may also wish to use at home to support this learning.
Tens and Units – Shark numbers
Other areas of the curriculum
In PE we created sequences of the movement patterns we have been learning and then we made sets and learned to dance The Flying Scotsman
We have been learning about the world around us, fact finding about different species of bees and also taking advantage of the cold weather to explore the properties of ice. We left some pots of water in the playground overnight before bringing the frozen contents into school for some scientific exploration and discussion.
Buckstone Primary School 