Listening and Talking Presentation – Thank you for sharing your talks. I enjoyed hearing about your favourite places.
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A reminder to please name all items of clothing, water bottles and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires an item belonging to someone else.
This week’s homework
- There will be no more Friday home learning sheets after this week. We will be focusing on revision and consolidation of spelling the block one and two tricky words as listed on this weeks sheet. Some pupils still find these tricky, so please practise writing them from memory (a few at a time)
- you may choose to play this game to support revision of number bonds. Start by choosing the number bonds to ten option. Up the level of challenge to 20 or beyond if required.
- Look around your house and discuss which things are powered by electricity. Do they plug into the mains or are they battery powered? Can the battery be charged or do the batteries need to be replaced when they run out ?
Independent learning
The children have been developing a wide range of skills through independent learning opportunities in class and outdoors. We have enjoyed having warm sunny weather allowing us to be outside more than usual.




















Literacy.
This week we have been continuing learning to blend initial consonants with the letter s – eg sw, sp,






Our writing prompt this week was the book ‘Not a stick’









We continue to use core reading book resources in school as we begin to develop developing the children’s reading comprehension skills, exploring the cognitive strategies of activating, inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, searching/selecting, summarizing, and visualising.
Maths and numeracy
In numeracy we continue to develop our Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning strategies.
These include additive and subtractive problem solving, forward and backward number sequences, sharing into equal groups, numeral recognition, partitioning of tens and ones, recognising patterns in number etc…



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Looking ahead to next week
Walk to the walled garden on Tuesday.
Loose Parts on Thursday
Other areas of the curriculum
In PE we worked on ball skills and also developing core strength, timing and reflexes.

Our caterpillars have formed Chrysalises – we are excited to watch the next stage of their transformation – at the time of writing, they are still wrapped up safe and warm !
