Dear Parents,
We hope you had a great week.
Important information
- Loose Parts on Monday 30th September.
- Parents Consultations Tuesday 1st October and Thursday 3rd October.
- Tempest order forms are in your child’s purple folder today. If you want free delivery you will have to order by 10th October.
- 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). Some children took them home after needing them in but haven’t returned them back to school.
- As usual 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 a few books missing and this means that a set of books cannot be shared with a group of children.
- Please if you are late do not knock on the door and ask a child to open the door for you go to the school office. For safety reasons children should not open the school doors.
This is a summary of our learning this week:
Literacy
This week we revised last week’s sounds oa/ow. We made boats and bows with arrows (look at the photos of our bows below).
Here is a wee video that you could watch at home if you would like to revise the learning:
We have practiced our reading skills: prediction, inference, summarising, etc.
We have introduced new tricky words from block 4: where, what, who. It would be very helpful if your children practice to read and write these words and previous blocks.
In writing we wrote about one of our parent/carers.
Handwriting: we have started to practice how to write i, l and t in cursive. See the website below to see how we practice them at school.
Ideas for learning at home
- Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.
- Read, write and make the words: boat, goat, road, load, toad, foal, oak, coach, soap, soak, loan, bow, row, show, mow. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the oa/ow letters and circle them. Ask your child how many letters the word can has and how many sounds.
- You can play this free online game:
- https://ictgames.com/phonicsPop/index.html
– Please continue to read stories to your child at home.
– Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.
Maths
We have continued to work on our numeracy skills through our SEAL programme (different groups will work with different numbers and skills depending on their abilities to be able to make progress accordingly). We have been practicing our addition skills: we have used the different skills that we have learned so far to solve some calculations in small groups.
We have been looking at the 100 square: a 100 square is a 10×10 square that typically contains the numbers 1-100. The numbers are in sequential order and, since our number system is base-10, this means that all numbers with the same ones digit can be found in the same column. This can begin to give children a basic understanding of place value.
We have worked on time: months of the year. Ask your child how we can work out which months have 31 days.
We loved this song:
Ideas for learning at home:
- Please use your Sumdog account to practice numeracy skills.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/chopper-squad
- Ask your child to tell you in which month he/she was born: which month goes after and which month goes before. You can ask about other members of the family and relatives. Can they tell you in which season is that month?
PE
We have worked on pre- basketball skills; we have learned how to do a chest pass and a chest and bounce pass. We had great fun trying to get the ball through the hoop.
SCIENCE
We have started our Sun, Moon and stars topic. We have discussed what do we know about it and what do we want to know.
We have learned to describe how the Earth spins around its axis in 24 hours resulting
in day and night. We know that the Earth movement is called Rotation. We watched the video here:
FRENCH
We have been practicing greetings. We like this song:
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs de Bonrostro
Buckstone Primary School 