What a wonderful afternoon spent watching The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe!

What a busy week it has been for room 2!

We launched into Jolly Phonics, covering s & a with some of the children and oo with others. We also worked on recognising and forming single digit numbers with P1 and on numbers to 100 with P2.

I’ve heard the boys and girls continued to display enthusiasm and excitement for their learning, even when I was away for two days of professional development and they worked with different teachers in the school. I am very proud of them!

C – Count to 10, Count back from 10

L – 1 + 1 = 2, 2 + 2 = 4

I – Double 1, Double 2, Half 2, Half 4

C – Adding numbers together

Try to make any maths work at home as fun as possible – games, puzzles and jigsaws are a great way to start. It is also important to show how we use maths skills in our everyday lives so try to involve your child in this.

Over the next couple of weeks we will be getting to know the characters and key words in our reading scheme – Oxford Reading Tree. We will be doing lots of games and activities in class to support this.

The children will begin to get words in their word pot to practise at home. First of all they will get the characters names and then move on to small common words. Please help your child to practise these words so that they can read them independently. After a set of words have been introduced a word wall assessment will be done in class and sent home to practise.

Try matching the words from the pot to the pictures in their reading book or see who can be first to find Kipper etc. As books with words are introduced see if your child can find the matching word in the story.

To begin with your child’s book will have no words. Encourage your child to use the pictures to tell the story and ask lots of questions about what they think people are feeling or saying.

I hope the children will have lots of fun learning to read. If you have any questions please come in and see me.

Thank you for your support.

This week the P1 boys and girls will be learning 2 new sounds.

s & a

This week the P2 boys and girls will be focusing on 1 phoneme.

oo

Please look in their home/school book for activities to support their learning. Play with them and encourage them to build their knowledge and understanding around theses sounds and blends.