Dear Parents,
We hope you had a great week.
We had a great time on our discovery walk. Thank you to all parents who were able to come and help.
Thank you for bringing all the medical forms: We are the winners!!! See our trophies and a special gift from Mrs George:
Important information
- Your children will be taking home their reading books today. This is a showcase of their learning. We have been reading the book at school so your children might find it ‘easy’. Please return the reading books on Monday: this is essential so books can be used by other children across the school.
- We have set up a Sumdog account for each child. On your purple folder today you will find a letter explaining all about Sumdog and your child’s username and password laminated. Please use your account this week as this will provide information to set up tailored challenges for them. Sumdog
- No Loose Parts next week.
This is a summary of our learning this week:
Literacy
This week we revised all the initial blends and diagraphs that we have worked on so far: th, ch, sh, wh, -ai-, -ay, -ee-, -ea, -oo, -ee, -igh- and -y. It would be very beneficial for the children to practice these at home: looking for words that have those sounds in books, boxes, etc., thinking about words with those sounds and writing them.
We have introduced new tricky words from block 3: would, should, could. 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 wrote about ourselves. We are learning to write descriptions. We are learning to use describing words to make our writing more interesting. We had a great time trying to guess who was the author of a piece of work by reading their own description.
Ideas for learning at home
– See suggestions above.
-Ask your child to read the reading book to you. Ask them questions about the text, what would have happened if…? Did they like the book? Why? Would you recommend this book to a friend?
– Sounds hunt: th, ch, sh, wh, -ai-, -ay, -ee-, -ea, -oo, -ee, -igh- and -y. Look for these initial blends and vowel diagraphs in magazines, books, food tins, boxes, etc.
– Spelling: tricky words. Ask your child to write the tricky words would, should, could using a different colour for each letter.
– Please continue to read stories to your child at home.
– Ask your child to write words with the sounds: th, ch, sh, wh, -ai-, -ay, -ee-, -ea, -oo, -ee, -igh- and -y. Can they write a sentence using one or two of these words? They can write them in post it notes and hide them around the house, whoever finds the most and able to read them wins.
- You can use this online game. Please choose the sounds that we have worked on so far.
https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.html
Maths
We have continued to work on addition (within 10, 20, 50). We have been working on using the near doubles strategy. It would be helpful if all the children learn , at least, near doubles to 10.
We loved this song:
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 more challenge try this game ( please look at the doubles game):
- Before and after: Please continue to work on this concept. If you see a number around (bus, house number, etc) challenge your child to say the number before and the number after.
Other areas
Social Studies
We have continued to learn about houses and homes. We are now confident to name and identify at least two types of houses from our local area. What a wonderful walk we had! Very interesting conversations about the type of houses that we saw in our walk.
To finish our topic we were given the challenge of building houses using different materials: we needed to work as a team and explain the features of the house to decide which type of house it was.
PE
We have started to work on pre- basketball skills: bouncing a ball. Please practice this skill at home.
HWB
We have worked on our Wellbeing wheels to explain how do we feel using the wellbeing indicators.
Outdoor learning
We had a fantastic session on Thursday afternoon. Lots of problem solving skills while using the wooden ramps and when trying to build a zipwire. Some children had a great time with their music band (using pots and buckets).
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs de Bonrostro
Buckstone Primary School 