• Maths.  New learn-its.  These are part of the mental maths work we have been doing in class.  We will get new ‘learn-its’ every few weeks.  Please help your child learn them.  The idea is to become so familiar with them that the children can recite the answer without using their fingers or requiring much thinking time.  I have taught the children that they should be able to answer them just like they would answer, ‘what is your name?’  or ‘what colour is the sky?’ i.e. with very little thought.   As with all P1 homework little and often is best, perhaps a few minutes in the car, whilst making dinner etc.  The learn-its are
  1. 1+1=2
  2. 2+1=3
  3. 2+3 =5

• New sounds and new words.  These will be issued on Tuesday.
• Reading on Monday and Wednesday for the Elephants and Tigers.  Tuesday and Friday for the Pandas.
• Writing practise.  Please help your child to practise writing the letters we are sometimes forming incorrectly: the caterpillar letters (c, a, g, d).  These letters all start with a curly caterpillar that looks like a letter c.  Your child will have a whiteboard and pen in their folders to practise these letters on.  Please ensure these whiteboards are sent back to school every day as we use them on an almost daily basis in class.  Thank you.

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