P2MD Blog 26.4.24

Dear Parents

We hope you are well.

We had a great week at school. We have enjoyed performing our assembly and the good weather!

Important information

Loose parts on Thursday 2^nd May. Please come dressed for the weather.
Class photos will be taken again on Tuesday 30th April. See information on the homelink.

Literacy

This week our focus was on reading non-fiction/fact books. When reading a non-fiction book children should be able to understand the information read and make connections with their previous knowledge about the given topic.

We have continued to work on compound words.

Our tricky words for this week are: follow, different and small (Block 7). We have been working on reading and writing different blocks. Please continue to work on these at home.

In writing we have written a story based on a short clip that we watched.

Ideas to do at home:

Please practice your tricky words (reading and spelling).

Ask your child to read the book that we have read in school this week. Ask your child questions about the book.

Compound words hunt: Do a hunt around the house or/and outdoors and create a list with them. You can use two colours to point out which to words make the compound words. Count the syllables. The children loved this video:

Maths

We have continued to work on our number skills counting forwards and backwards, number before and number after a given number, counting in 2s and 5s (3s and 4s for some).

We have started to work on fractions: understanding what a whole and a part means. We have learned what a half is: we have used shapes and halved them. We know that ½ means a half (the number at the top means that I have one part and the bottom part means that the whole has been split in two parts)

Ideas to do at home.

Ask your child to give half of items ( and write ½ or /and a half):