P2D Reflective Friday 19.01.24

Dear Parents / Carers,

We hope you had a great week.

Important information:

• Your child took will bring home today their learning story. Please have a look at the termly overview and your child’s targets for this term. Please return them to school by Friday 26^th January at the latest.
• Loose parts on Monday 22^nd.
• Please ensure that all your children’s items are labelled (including hats and gloves).
• 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). Please label all the items.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we have learned the initial blends: sc, sk, sn, sp, st, sw, tw.

We have practiced our reading skills: our focus at the moment is fluency.

We have started to learn common words from block 5: school, because and before.

In writing we are learning to write descriptions. We have started by writing a description on ourselves.

At cursive handwriting. This week we have practice r and s. 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.

Look at these ideas to work on fluency at home:

1. Show them your own fluent reading. The more often your child hears fluent reading, the more likely they are to pick it up.
2. Teach your child how to track words.
3. Focus on sight words.
4. Recruit a friendly audience and ask your child to read the story for them.
5. Ask your child to write and read these words: scoop, scar, scan, scab, skip, skin, skid, skim, snail, snap, snug, snip, smug, smash, spin, spat, spot, spit, speck, stop, step, star, stuck, stick, stock, swim, swam, swag, swig, twin, twig, twit. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the initial blends and circle them.  
6. Please continue to read stories to your child at home.
7. Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.

Maths 

We have started to learn about properties of 2D shapes and reviewed our knowledge of 2D shapes.

We have been working on doubles and doubles plus one.

Ideas for learning at home: 

• When talking to your child ensure you use vocabulary using 2D shape: we have learned circle, triangle, square, rectangle, trapezium, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon and decagon. The children were confident on the first three but found challenging the others.
• Shape hunt around the house and outdoors.
• Make a shape book: every page could have a shape and your child can write how many sides, how many corners (we have introduced the word vertex ( how many vertices?) and draw objects with that shape.
• In this online game you could click on the doubles area.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Other areas

EXA and PE

We have started to learn Scottish Dance. We are learning to combine actions to create movement sequences independently and with others in response to music.

ART

We are learning about Monet. We have learned about his life and started to look at his technique.

FRENCH

We are learning to count to 20.

SOCIAL STUDIES

We are learning about Greyfriars Bobby. We are learning to use evidence to recreate the story of an individual of local historical interest. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Mrs de Bonrostro