P2D Reflective Friday 30.08.24

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a lovely week.

Information

Your child is taking home their Learning Story today. Please read carefully the term overview: you will find all the information about your child’s learning for the term. You will also find your child’s individual targets based on transition information and recent assessments at school. We will be working on these this term. Please return the learning stories by next Friday. Thank you for your support.
Please ensure that all your child’s items are labelled.
If you have any questions or worries about your child please don’t hesitate to contact me. I would really appreciate if this could be arranged at the end of the day.

Here is a summary of our learning this week.

Maths

We are learning to continue a number sequence. We are working on reading writing, ordering and reciting whole numbers to 100, 30,10, starting from any number in the sequence.; could be forwards and backwards, starting a different points from 100, 30 or 10.

We are working on number formation as we have noticed that children are not forming them properly or reversing numbers. This is normal at this age however it is helpful to remind the children about to do right number formation.

We have started to do work on time: seasons and months of the year. We are now able to tell in which month we were born and in which season.

We have started to work on data and analysis. We have learned what is a bar graph and we are learning that is a pictogram and a bar graph, to explain information looking at a bar graph. Our next step is to display gathered information on a bar graph.

Home learning ideas:

It would be fantastic if you give your child two numbers between 0 to 10 (30, 100) and ask him/her to count forwards and backwards from one number to another. Look for numbers in buses, houses, car plates and use them as a starting point.
Some children are finding hard to understand the concepts before and after therefore it would be helpful to emphasize this at home with routines: you put your socks before your shoes, etc.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares
It would be useful to have a paper calendar at home and when looking at different family events use the calendar for it.

Literacy

This week we have introduced a new vowel diagraph ( two vowels that make one sound): -ai- and -ay. See below the picture that we are using in class to remind us of the sound.

We made paper chains, snails and played with play dough.

We have continued to read our reading books in class. We also had the visit from the mobile library and we were able to choose a book that we will be reading in our BEAR ( be excited about reading) time.

We have revised the spelling of tricky words (common words) from P1 and introduced new ones from block 3: so, very and every.

Our piece of writing was “How to wash your hands”. When writing our focus is to use our knowledge of phonics and spelling strategies when spelling familiar and unfamiliar words. We are learning to write a set of instructions using ‘bossy verbs’.

Home learning ideas:

Please continue to read stories to your child at home. This will help to increase your child’s vocabulary. prediction and summarising skills.
Ask your child to think about words that have the ai/ay sound. They can try to write them too. Write words with those sounds and ask your child to find a given sound. Some words: nail, chain, rain, mail, chair, tail, wait, fail, pain, gain, main, aid, maid, pair, day, may, say, pay, bay, lay, ray, way, hay, Fay, May, Kay.
For working with the above sounds:

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.html

You can watch this video:

Other areas

Social Studies

We have started our topic on Houses and homes we have discussed what do we know about houses and homes and what do we like to learn. If any parent has a job related to this topic we would love to have for a chat with the children ( please contact Mrs de Bonrostro via school office email). Thank you