We carved pumpkins today with Mrs Murray, our parent helper.  We hope to take these to the forest on Thursday.  We need 3 battery operated tea lights for these.  If you have any at home that we can borrow for this week please send them in.  Many thanks.

Please collect lots of junk for superhero model making.  We need lots of kitchen roll tubes!

Pandas and Tigers – new sounds and words

Elephants – new words.  Revise all sounds please.

Please look around your house for any superhero themed toys or books that we could borrow for our superhero area in class.  Please do not send anything in that has a high emotional or financial value.

This week our language learning zone activity is to make our tricky words out of pasta.  We have really enjoyed doing this and are becoming much more confident in spelling words like the, and,  my, me, can and did.  You could try this at home too.

This term we are going to be having different challenges to try during learning zones.  This week our challenge is a superhero design challenge.  We have to try and create a superhero mask using some of the materials provided.  The trickiest bit is to work out how to cut out the eye holes.  Here are some of our superheroes so far (these superheroes are certain their families won’t be able to guess who they are!)

This week the top table were the red table.  They got lots of cubes because three of the star writers were at their table (you get 15 table points if you are a star writer!)

In the photograph you can see how we work out who has the most points.  We build our cubes/points into towers of 5 and then use a computer programme to count up in 5s.  We are getting very good at this and it is helping us to learn about number sequences and number recognition to 100.

Today we visited the ICT suite for the first time. We were all very excited about this! We used paint software to make pictures of our choice. Our targets were to change the colour and size of our paintbrush. We were also learning to control a mouse and shut down a computer.

The children have decided that our project for next term should be Superheroes.  Today they made a big list of all the things they already knew and they chatted about things they would like to find out about.  They all showed an interest in wanting to build Batmobiles, superhero labs and superheroes.   Please collect a range of junk over the holidays for us to use for our models.  No toilet roll tubes, medicine containers or raw meat packaging please.

The children also decided they wanted to learn more about flying superheroes.  They are going to be involved in some experiments with flying superheroes next term.  Please collect lots of kitchen roll tubes for this.

If you have any superhero costumes, books or toys that you would be willing to lend to us for a short period please send them in.  Please do not send anything in that has a high financial or emotional value.

Many thanks.

We have been learning about the k and c sounds this week.  We made crowns with c and k pictures.  Our target was to try and write some k or c words too. We did really well with our sounding out.

• New words and new sounds (these will be issued on Tuesday)
• Reading for Wednesday.  Please return all books to school on Wednesday.
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