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Buckstone Primary School

P2/3 Reflective Friday Week Beginning 31st August

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Another busy week of learning in the Golden Treasures class!

Important information:

Next week we will start reading in class/at home.  Books will be sent home on a Monday, brought to school every day (please!) and returned to school on a Thursday.  This is really important, particularly this term, as the books need a 72 hour quarantine period before they can be used by a different class.

We will not be sending home reading records at the moment. On a Monday the blog will be updated with any information you may require for reading.  It may be the case that your child is sent home with a book that they have not started to read yet so it is vital that the books are in school every day for reading groups to be heard and so that your child can take part in tasks linked to their book.

Below is a practical guide to helping your child with their reading at home.

Home Reading Guide For Parents-Carers

PE on Tuesdays and Thursdays will take place outdoors.  Please continue to come to school on these days dressed for outdoor PE.

Literacy

  • practising our tricky words from Block 1 and 2- reading and writing
  • P2s- revising the sounds sh, ch, th and wh
  • P3s- using initial consonant blends to spell words correctly
  • retelling the story of Silly Billy aloud in our own words to our learning partners and sequencing the story using picture cards
  • writing some simple sentences as part of our morning challenges
  • practising our letter formation and handwriting skills
  • writing and drawing about The Twits

Ideas for home learning

  • finding tricky words/sounds/spelling patterns in books, newspapers or magazines
  • reading aloud to your child as much as you can and getting them to read to you if they can
  • retelling a simple story to you in their own words
  • practising handwriting together at home

Here are the tricky words in case you need them

block-1-and-2-tricky-words

and the P3 spelling words we have worked on

P3 Spelling week 2

Numeracy and Maths

  • saying numbers sequences forwards and backwards from a variety of starting points
  • identifying numbers on a number line/100 square and saying the number before and after
  • identifying missing numbers in a sequence
  • practising number formation, particularly getting our numbers the right way around
  • practising number bonds to 10
  • using tally charts and making own pictograms

Ideas for home learning

  • practising counting together for example, “Can you count up from 12 to 25?  How about backwards from 25 to 12?”  Use a variety of numbers that your child is comfortable with.
  • listen to and join in with this fun song about counting to 100

Jack Hartmann count to 100

  • practising number formation on paper, in sand, using play-doh, on a whiteboard, using apps- you choose!

Other Areas

  • Outdoor PE- fitness circuits and running
  • Learning through play in the classroom
  • Outdoor learning- inventing our own new games to play outside
  • Naming our new tables- we are now the Mega Meerkats, Diving Dolphins, Speedy Sharks and Playing Puppies- do you like our names?

What we enjoyed this week:

“I enjoyed playing with the blocks during learning through play time.” Emma

“Drawing!” Callum

“I liked tidying up!” Ruari

“I liked playing the new games of ‘tig’ that we invented.” Angus

“I liked playing with the dinosaurs.” Andrey

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Tweedie and Mrs Graham

Buckstone Primary School

P1Tigers Reflective Friday 4th September

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Over the first few weeks we are working on class/school routines. All children have settled well into school. It is lovely to see how new friendships are developing and to hear all the chat from the children. We are happy to be moving back to our new classroom over the weekend and are looking forward to exploring our new environment next week.

Literacy

  • We continue to practise our listening and talking skills through sharing our memory boxes – only a few left to share.
  • We have enjoyed listening to and discussing a range of fictional books about bears.
  • We have introduced the characters from the Oxford Reading Tree Programme (our reading programme).
  • We have continued to practice rhyming words.
  • We designed Thank you cards to say thank you to the people at St Fillan’s church for our Buckstone Bears.
  • We created letters and cards using the lovely envelopes kindly donated by Waitrose.

Home learning ideas

  • Share a storybook about a bear
  • Find words that rhyme with a given word.
  • Play a game of ‘ I spy with my little eye, something that rhymes with…..’
  • Encourage your child to make their name in different ways: in the sand, with flour, play dough, etc.
  • The names that we would like children to identify are: Kipper, Chip, Biff, Floppy, Mum and Dad.
  • Please encourage your child to use a tripod grasp when holding a pencil.

Numeracy

  • We have been exploring numbers to 10 with matching activities.
  • We have been working on recognising numbers and dot patterns (to 10).
  • We have explored numbers to 10 (and beyond for some)
  • We have worked on sequencing numbers.
  • We have worked on counting forwards and backwards from different starting points.
  • We are working on number formation. – this week’s numbers were 0, 1, 3 and 4
  • Counting and number recognition

Home learning ideas

  • Number hunt: ask your child to look for specific numbers in the street: buses, house numbers and ask your child to say the number that goes after and before that number.
  • Practice number formation numbers 0 to 10 (or more if your child is confident with this already)
  • Count items: ask your child to give an X number of things: leaves, stones, sticks.
  • You may choose to play this game. Please choose from sequencing or ordering (forwards) from 1- 10 or 1-20

Other areas of the curriculum:

PE – we have been focusing on developing our travelling skills – walking, running, jumpoing with two deef together, hopping, skipping and ‘toe to heel tightrope walking’

Bears – we have been learning about different types of bears – black bears, brown bears, polar bear, Pandas and recognising that Koala’s are NOT in fact bears. You can listen to this song for more information.

Outdoor learning: 

On Monday we were able to access our outdoor loose parts shed. We had great fun developing a wide range of physical, co-operative, creative and investigative skills.

 

Independent learning:

These are some photos of the learning through play that we had the opportunity to experience this week:

Developing our fine motor skills

Helpful friends.

Building horizontally

 

Sharing books

 

exploring levels

and more……….

Other Information

  • PE on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
  • We ask that the children bring shoes which they are able to put on and take off independently.
  • It would be really helpful if all your child’s items could be labelled (packed lunches and water bottles too)
  • Please be mindful when choosing a snack for your child: make sure your child can open it independently. We are also a nut-free school
  • We politely ask that you give your child only water in their bottles.

We are very proud of our Terrific Tigers!

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s learning.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

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