Dear Parents,
We hope you have had a good week.
It was lovely to talk to you at parents evenings.
Important Information
Loose parts on Wednesday 6th March
We read our books in class this week but will not be sending them home today. Books will be sent home next Friday.
Here is a summary of our learning:
Literacy
This has been the final week in our Magic E unit of work. Magic e working on the vowel e. Examples of words with this spelling are: Pete, Steve, theme, these.
In writing we wrote a description of Grandma Mainland from the Katie Morag stories.
As a class we were introduced to spelling the words eye, even and above. Then we worked in our groups on the particular spelling block which we are focusing on.
The letters for handwriting were j and y. Here is the website we use in school to show the correct formation.
Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)
Ideas for learning at home:
Real or nonsense words
Write these magic e words down on small pieces of paper. Can your child read the word then decide if it is a real or nonsense word?
cake
eve
fline
tube
smope
make
pine
spure
pole
clube
Your child will know the block they are working on for spelling, please continue to revise the spelling words with your child.
Numeracy
In numeracy we have continued to work on addition and subtraction skills. We are finding subtraction more tricky compared to addition. In order to help with this we are working on counting backwards, stopping and starting at different numbers, and paying close attention to crossing decades. It would be very helpful if you could work on this at home too in order to give extra reinforcement.
Ideas for learning at home:
As mentioned above, please work on counting backwards. This can be done in the car, walking home from school, any time you have a spare few minutes!
Here are a couple of links to online games which will reinforce subtraction skills.
If your child is finding this difficult:
https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/subtraction/catch-the-stars
For more challenge.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids
Other Areas
Outdoor Learning
We enjoyed our session of Loose Parts session on Monday.
PE
We have been developing our gymnastics skills in PE.
HWB – Building Resilience
We are working on the unit of work titled ‘Respect Yourself’. We have been learning that we all have similarities and differences, but we are all unique. We have been drawing and writing about what makes each of us special and unique.
HWB – RSHP
We have been learning about Privacy and the PANTS rule.
P is for privates are private.
A is for always remember your body belongs to you.
N is for no.
T is for talk about secrets that upset you.
S is for speak up, someone can help.
This is a good website with ideas:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule
This is the song we have listened to: https://youtu.be/_SzbMEVYiyg
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs de Bonrostro
Buckstone Primary School 