A massive well done to everyone who took part in our funny reading competition. The children were delighted to share their funny photos of them reading a book in a strange place. It definitely inspired them to think about reading outside and in unusual places in their house. Well done and thank you for all of your fantastic photographs!
The class voted and chose three winners. Here they are:
Today was our last day with our lovely teachers Miss Cameron and Miss Tait. We had a special cinema golden time and some fun, messy activities to help us enjoy their last day at Cults Primary. Good luck back at University Miss Tait and Miss Cameron! We will miss you!
Today we solved very big sums using a calculator app on the iPads. We were all delighted when we managed to solve very big 2 and 3 digit sums. We also spent some time teaching someone else how to use a calculator and were very supportive (and cute) teachers! Well done everyone!
We had great fun working with our friends to make a minibeast out of construction. We had to try hard to share our ideas and the construction. We created some wonderful minibeast and some very imaginative models! We drew and wrote a plan before we made our minibeast and wrote about them in our forest diary once they we’re complete.
Reading
Reading will be done on Monday and Thursday this week.
Literacy
Please continue with ‘Teach you monster to read.’
We will be starting to revisit the formation of all letters sounds. This week please focus on writing c, a and d. We call these ‘caterpillar letters’ because we start them by writing a curly c like a caterpillar. You could use pens and paper, shaving foam, finger paint, whiteboards and pens.
Maths
Please play the subtraction game that was sent home. This will be sent home on Tuesday. You will need some counters and dice. If you don’t have dice at home you get some fantastic free dice apps to download. Please remember that when we take away everything, 0, 1 or 2 we don’t use our fingers.
Please note: the forest will be cancelled this week. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We will reschedule alternative dates very soon.
This week we are focussing on reading for enjoyment in class. This will be the main focus for our homework too. Your child will not take a reading book home this week.
Reading task
Try reading lots of different books at home this week. We have been learning about rhyming books, fiction books and non-fiction books. Try reading books under each of these categories for fun. Get someone to take a photograph of you reading one of these books in an unusual place e.g. under a tree, on a swing etc. Please bring the photograph to school next Wednesday (1st June). There will be a prize for the most interesting or unusual photograph. We will be displaying these photographs in our classroom to try and promote reading for enjoyment.
Please try playing ‘Teach your monster to read’ for 15-20 minutes this week.
Maths task
Learn-its: please revise all learn-its: 1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4, 5+5, 2+1, 2+3
Please practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s this week. You could do this using the SPLAT square – click here or whack a mole – click here (please change the step size to 2,5 or 10).
You could also try clapping, jumping, hopping as you count up in 2s, 5s or 10s. We do this in class a lot so you should manage to do this at home.
PLEASE NOTE: WE WILL NOT BE GOING TO THE FOREST THIS WEEK AS MRS DUNCAN WILL BE OUT OF CLASS ON WEDNESDAY. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.
We had another great day in the forest today. We checked on our bird feeders and many of us were delighted to find that our entire bird feeders had been eaten! We also tied our ‘Scoop your poop’ posters to encourage other forest users to keep our outdoor learning space tidy.
We had a picnic lunch in the forest. We all enjoyed choosing a special spot to sit with our friends and eat our lunch.
After lunch we found out about habitats. We did a reading task to find out about different habitats that forest animals live in. Then, in small groups, we made our own habitat for an animal we had read about. There was great teamwork and fantastic problem solving happening everywhere!
Today we tried to find out more about a minibeast of our choosing using the iPads. We chose a minibeast and then watched a video about it on our own iPads. We then shared and wrote down some of our nely discovered facts! It was great to discover so many new things that we didn’t know about minibeasts!
Literacy
This week is a revision week for sounds. Please revise our three latest sounds.
Elephants: oi, aw (as in saw), ue
Tigers and Pandas: Oa, ai, ck
You could do this by:
Please encourage correct letter formation. 🙂
Please continue to play ‘Teach your Monster to read’ for 15-20 minutes each week.
Maths
Please try getting your child to teach you how to play ‘Tom Thumb, Tom Thumb…what is your sum?’ You could then use this game to ask them a variety of addition or subtraction sums up to 10 (or beyond for some). Please remind your child that we don’t need to use our fingers when adding or subtracting 0, 1 or 2.
WE STILL NEED 1 PARENT HELPERFOR THE FOREST TRIP THIS WEDNESDAY. PLEASE LET ME KNOW A.S.A.P. IF YOU CAN HELP. ABBEY’S MUM, VEER’S MUM, NEVE’S MUM, OLIVER’S MUM AND HOLLY’S MUM ARE HELPING. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ALL CHILDREN (AND HELPERS) NEED A PACKED LUNCH FOR THE FOREST TRIP THIS WEEK AS WE WILL BE HAVING OUR LUNCH IN THE FOREST! 🙂
We are continuing to use the iPads regularly and are becoming very confident at using safari and using different apps. This week we created minibeast pictures using the iPad.
