Dear Parents,
We hope you had a great week. We cannot believe this is the last Reflective Friday blog for this term!
Important information:
- Reading books will be sent home this week but not next (we will continue to work on reading skills at school) . Please return all reading books that you might have at home, we are missing quite a few of them.
- 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 started learning about soft g. Soft g When g is in front of an i, y, or e, it is soft and says /j/. For example: giant, gym, and gem. Hard g When g is in front of any other letter, it says /g/. For example: go, gave, and gravel
This is a video that we have used in class and will support learning at home.
We have practiced our reading skills: this week we have focused on comprehension and fluency.
We have continued to learn common words from block 6: idea, answer and usual. Please continue to practice tricky words at home. All children know in which block they are working on.
In writing we are learning to write descriptions.
In handwriting we have practised our name using cursive script. Please continue to practice this at home.
Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)
Ideas for learning at home
- Practice words with g and ask your child to say if it is a soft or a hard g and how they know that.
- Please continue to read stories to your child every day at home.
- Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day. Please ensure you do this during the holidays. It doesn’t have to be long but daily practice is highly recommended.
Maths
We have continued to learn about money. This week our focus has been recording amounts accurately in different ways using the correct notation. Please continue to practice recognising coins at home as we have noticed that a few children are still finding this difficult.
We have also worked on numeracy skills: addition and subtraction. Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s (3s and 4s for some). Please continue to practice these skills at home.
Ideas for learning at home:
- Practice a couple of calculations every day (please choose accordingly with your child’s ability)
- If you have coins at home give an amount to your child and ask them to write it. You could write an amount and your child could make the amount with the coins.
- This is a website that we have used in class:
https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/activities/cashing-in/cashing-in.html
Other areas
World Down Syndrome Day
We found out about World Down Syndrome day which is celebrated on 21st March each year. We learned more about the condition and enjoyed a story called Trudy and Me by Bridget Campbell.
EXA and PE
In gymnastics we are working on landing, balancing and rolling skills. We have improved our forward rolls.
IDL
We have continued to work on Food Chains.
RME
We have learned about Easter.
We enjoyed watching the P4 show about Nessie and our loose parts session.
Have a wonderful and restful Easter break!
Mrs McFarlane
Buckstone Primary School 