Dear Parents,
We hope you had a great week.
Information
- We are planning to do a short local walk to look at the houses and homes in our community on Wednesday 18th September at 9.30 if you think you will be able to help please contact the school office. At the moment we only have one volunteer; we will not be able to go ahead if we don’t have more. It would be a short walk so we should be back before 10.30. Thank you for your help.
- Today your child is taking home a blank Christmas card if you wish to do one at home for the PTA fundraiser. Please return them to school by Tuesday 17th September if you wish to order it. Please read the instructions carefully.
- Loose Parts on Thursday 19th.
- Local walk on Wednesday 18th.
This is a summary of our learning this week:
Literacy
This week we have introduced the -igh and -y sounds . As in ‘light’ and ‘my”. We know that when the sound is, usually, in the middle of the word it will be the igh pattern and when it is at the end of the word it will be the y . Here is the visual prompt we have been using in class
We have started to work on tricky words from block 3: any, many and water.
It would be very helpful if your children practice to read and write these words.
Please also revise the ones from block 1 and 2.
In writing we are learning to write a set of instructions. This week we have been learning how to cross the road. This will help us on our discovery walk around the local area next Wednesday. We have focused on using words of order and bossy verbs.
At story time we have worked on predictions and fluency. Reading books will go home on Friday next week.
Ideas for learning at home
– Please continue to read stories to your child at home. Building on our work from story time this week, can they predict what is going to happen in the story based on the information they have or on previous experiences?
-Please continue to encourage your child to read at home.
– Ask your child to write the words below
igh words light, night, tight, high
y words my, sky, shy, by
Ask them to write the igh /y sound with a different colour than the rest of the sounds in the word.
Handwriting: numbers 5 , 6 and 7.
Numeracy and Maths
We have been learning to add using a number line as a strategy for some (other children have been working on bigger numbers and using other strategies like adding tens and units, etc). We have continued to work on holding a number in our head then counting forwards (for addition)
We have done our final work on data handling: tally marks, block graphs and Carroll diagrams.
Ideas for learning at home:
- Ask your child to add two numbers together. For some, this might be with two single digits, for others it could be a 2 digit number plus a 1 digit number. For example 34 + 4. Encourage your child to put the biggest number on the number line first and then add the other one by counting the jumps from that number. Eg 2 + 9: we start on the 9 in the number line and then jump 2 times ( 9 to 10 and 10 to 11) the answer is the number were we landed.
- Please continue to work on number formation. Number 5 and 6 have been a bit tricky!
Other areas
Expressive Arts
We have made our Christmas cards.
PE
We have continued to develop ball control with our feet.
HWB
We have read the book: Standing up to racism. We had a very interesting discussion about this book. We talked about our heritage. Please if you would like to share with the class information about your family’s heritage we would love to hear from you (Please contact Mrs de Bonrostro via school office email or at the door at the end of the day).
French
We have learned how to describe our feelings which has linked to our work on Colour Monster. For example, Ca va? Ca va bien.
STEM
We had a fantastic time on Monday at Loose Parts.
We hope you have a lovely long weekend! (Remember there is no school on Monday!)
Mrs de Bonrostro
Buckstone Primary School 