Author: Staff..294

Hello everyone. Here is what we have been learning this week:

Numeracy and Maths

We have been practising counting in 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s and 4s.

We have also been revising and learning our number bonds to 10 and 20. Knowing these really well will help us when we are adding amounts. To challenge us a bit further, we also worked on number bonds (or jigsaw numbers) to 100.

Things to try at home:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

We spent some time outdoors this week learning and revising the properties of 2D shapes and we discussed the names and properties of 3D objects.

Literacy

Reading

We have been developing our skills in summarising stories. We summarised ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’ by Julia Donaldson using the structure ‘Somebody, wanted, but, so, then’ to help us.

Writing

We have been focussing on using full stops and capital letters this week. We wrote about stories about autumn and worked on completing sentences in our grammar lesson.

Handwriting

We worked on forming a, d, c and g using cursive handwriting this week.

Things to try at home:

Read a story and then retell it to someone at home using the structure, ‘Sombody, wanted, but, so then.’

Make up sentences, write them down and check you have used a capital letter and a full stop.

Practise your handwriting using pens, pencils, crayons, chalk; any materials available to you at home.

Follow this link to help you form the letters correctly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NQ6uS8blwY

French

We were learning to count to 13 in French by playing a fun game outside.

PE

We have been trying to beat our own scores for running and star jumps. We talked about some of our scores may have gone down instead of up!

Health and Wellbeing

We have been talking about what makes us angry or frustrated and the tools or strategies we might use to deal with these emotions.

Tools for School

We have been using our pencils and rubbers etc that we brought from home since we returned to school in August. We discussed speaking to someone at home if it was now time to replace some of our items.

Lost Property

We have a grey cardigan (M&S age 3-4) and a grey Buckstone jumper (age 7-8) in the classroom that nobody is claiming! Please have a check and say to your child if you think these belong in your family. It is really helpful if items of clothing, especially cardigans and jumpers are named so we can return lost items easily.

Have a lovely long weekend! See you all on Tuesday.

Here are this week’s words. Please work on the list you chose in class, in preparation for the dictation on Friday.

bang

hung

long

string

bringing

bank

chunk

thank

drinking

winking

my

by

Challenge List

banged

singing

longed

branded

banked

chunked

thanked

drank

winked

my

by

Literacy

Spelling

New words will be posted on Monday.

Reading

Please complete the reading assigned to your group. We have been working on prediction skills this week. Use the information given (e.g. title and front cover) as well as your own experiences to make sensible predictions about different books.

Follow this link to see some front covers of books available for children your age. What predictions can you make about what they might be about?

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-lists/brilliant-books-for-young-readers

Numeracy

Follow the links given last week for songs to help you practise counting in different sequences.

Try this game to help you sequence and order numbers:

https://www.ictgames.com/rangeArranger/index.html

To help us build words, we are continuing to think about the sound that the two consonants at the beginning of a word make. We also have five common words to revise / learn this week. Please work on the list that you chose to work on in class.

twig
swing
tweed
thrush
street
screen
strong
here
there
go
so
no

Challenge Words

swinging
splashing
sweeping
swimmer
springy
stronger
sweetest
here
there
go
so
no

Spelling

New words will be posted on Monday. Practise spelling your words at home in preparation for your dictation on Friday.

Parents / Carers: Please note that your child has chosen which spelling list to work on. We guide pupils / make suggestions based on what we see in the dictations from the previous week, but pupils choose the level of difficulty themselves.

Reading

Please complete the reading assigned to your group. We will be working on our summarising, comprehension and prediction skills in class over the coming weeks as well as our fluency.

Parents / Carers: You will notice that your child’s reading record states the date and title of the book. Unless stated otherwise, pupils should read the whole book over the course of the week. As well as helping your child to read any tricky words, please help your child to develop their reading skills by asking them questions about what they think might happen next or to retell the key events of the story in their own words. You could also ask your child questions about what is happening in the story or how they think the characters are feeling. It is important that your child works on understanding the text as well as being able to read the words.

Numeracy

Counting in Sequences

We have been practising counting in 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s. Practise these sequences at home using the following songs to help.

If you can count confidently in these sequences, have a go at some of the trickier number sequences in this game:

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/42/sequences

Place Value

We have been thinking about the position of digits in a number and what this tells us about the value of each digit.

Practise what we have been learning with 2 and 3-digit numbers.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Work with larger numbers if you are looking for a challenge:

http://www.math-play.com/Place-Value-Millionaire/place-value-millionaire-game_html5.html