It’s been lovely being back at school this week and finding out what everyone did over the summer. Pupils have enjoyed ‘catching up’ with old friends and getting to know new ones.
This week, all classes in the school have chosen the name of a character from a book as their class name. We decided that our class name, in P3B, should be ‘Bouncing Benjamin Bunnies’.
PE
There will be two days each week when pupils should come to school wearing clothes suitable for participating in PE activities. More information about our regular PE days will be provided soon, but for next week, pupils in P3B should come to school in their PE kit on Tuesday and Wednesday.
This week, our focus is on words containing ‘igh’ or ‘-y’. As usual, we also have two ‘tricky’ words to learn / revise. Please work on the list you chose in class.
light night right sight tight spy try why fry shy what when
Challenge Words
mighty sunlight goodnight alright sighting buy by frying spying trying what when
Your child has been given an A4 sheet of paper with the blocks of ‘tricky’ words they learned to read in P1 and P2. As these are words that appear often, in the English language, pupils are likely to use them in their writing and we would like them to develop their confidence when spelling these words.
Further to an assessment, the words your child needs to work on have been highlighted on the sheet. The blocks assessed, at this stage, have also been highlighted. This means that although your child might not have any words highlighted in blocks 5 and 6, for example, these blocks may not have been assessed at this stage.
We have asked your child to learn to spell their highlighted words. These can be worked on over a period of time. It may be that they choose one or two to work on per week, in addition to the spelling lists we are learning.
We have one or two assessments to complete, but all sheets should have been sent home by Wednesday. If your child has lost their sheet, please just let us know by writing a note in your child’s reading record (and letting them know so they will show it to one of us).
Our words this week have ‘ai’ or ‘ay’ making the long A sound. We noticed that in words with only one syllable, we normally find ‘ai’ at the beginning or middle of the word and that ‘ay’ is found at the end. Learning and remembering this will help us to decide whether we should use ‘ai’ or ‘ay’. As usual, we have two common words at the end of the list.
We have continued to work on summarising stories: We have summarised ‘Waiting for Wolf’ by Sandra Dieckmann and ‘Elmer’ by David McKee this week.
‘We write about the beginning, middle and end.’
‘We can use ‘Somebody, wanted, but. so then’ to tell what’s happening.’
‘It’s fun!’
‘We like reading the story before and thinking about our ideas’
Keep practising at home by retelling the stories you read using your own words. Don’t forget to focus on the main events.
Remember to complete the reading assigned to your group.
Grammar
We practised putting capital letters and full stops in the correct places.
At home, when you are reading, take extra notice of where the full stops and capital letters are. Can you explain to someone at home why they are there?
Numeracy
We have been working on adding 2-digit numbers using ‘bridging through 10’ as a strategy. We found this quite tricky but we will keep working on this skill.
‘We need to be able to count in 10s to bridge through 10.’
We also need to know the number bonds within 10 to be able to use this strategy.
At home, play this game to work on your number bonds within 10. Choose Level 2.If you are confident with level 2, try a harder level.
All this week’s words contain ‘ck’ or ‘k’. Use ‘ck’ after a short vowel sound and ‘k’ after a long vowel sound or consonant. As usual, there are two common or ‘tricky’ words to learn.
Here are this week’s words. There is a double consonant after the short vowel sound in all of the words. We also have two common words to revise / learn this week, as usual.
Please work on the list you chose in class. Dictations will be on Friday.
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