Well it is official. Christmas has begun! The Yellow Wing has started the nativity rehearsals and everyone is singing the songs, learning the actions and practising the lines. How exciting!

This week has gone really quickly. We were learning all about the Sun, Moon and the Earth and why we have daytime / night time. The sound was ‘air’ and we were revising our number bonds to 10. We were also adding on to 10-10 add 5.  Writing was fun! We were learning how to plan a story with a beginning, middle and end and we payed particular attention to the characters and setting.

 

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope you find the following information useful.  If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

 Learning focus this term:

Through our topic Space we will be learning about:

• The Sun, Earth and Moon
• The Planets
• Life as an astronaut

If you have any experience in this area, please let us know. We would love to have some ‘experts’ come in to share in our learning journey.

Core Literacy:

We are continuing with our Read, Write Inc literacy programme for phonics. ‘Fred’ will help us to sound and blend words to help us read and write.

• Children will bring home a reading book, although this may not be issued on the same day each week. They may also have a tricky words list to practice. Please read these with your child every night wherever possible, and ensure that the reading book is kept in your child’s red folder and brought to school every day. If you would like to fill in your child’s new diary, please do so. Pictures of books in the diary can be coloured in each time your child reads from their reading book. We hope that this will encourage more regular practice at home.
• Our writing lessons will focus on letters, lists and imaginative stories. We are continuing to develop the use of connectives within our sentences, such as ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘because’ to extend our writing. We will continue to recognise and use verbs, nouns and adjectives in our reading and writing. We will also be developing our handwriting skills.
• We are working on our listening and talking skills through Show and Tell, Book Blessings, the Nativity and sharing our news at circle time. Some children in our class have really enjoyed creating their own books and sharing these to the class. This helps the children identify themselves as writers and develops presentation skills. I hope that this will continue throughout the session.

Core Numeracy:

This term will be focusing on

• Addition and subtraction, to include doubles, and tens and ones
• Money
• Pattern
• Compass points

Core Health and Wellbeing:

Pupils will be representing our class this term through selling poppies as part of our school’s commemoration of Remembrance Day. We will continue to develop our friendship skills, such as respect, sharing and listening.

This term, we are learning to be like Learning Larry. Pupils will be able to receive their Learning Larry certificate if they:

1. Come to school with everything they need to learn (including red communication folders, reading books and diaries)
2. Listen carefully to instructions
3. Follow instructions promptly
4. Always try their best
5. Present work neatly and take pride in their work
6. Never give up!
7. We will have further certificates for other Redwell’s Rights and Respecting School characters later in the session.

We will continue to learn about Christianity in RME.

Yellow Wing Cuddle on the Couch:

Please help us to promote reading by joining us for Cuddle on the Couch. Come along to the Yellow Wing and spend some time reading with your child.  Our last session for this term will be on Monday 9th December. If you require a schedule of Cuddle on the Couch dates, please contact the school office.

Nativity:

This year P2 will be participating in the nativity, which will be taking place during the week beginning 9^th December. All children will be learning songs and some will have speaking parts. These will be sent home for you to practise with your child.

Lost Property:

We are aware that children sometimes misplace jumpers and other items of clothing. Please ensure that your child’s name is on every piece of clothing that comes into school. Children are given opportunities to find their property in class and throughout the school. If your child comes out of school without some of their belongings, they will be given the opportunity to retrieve their property the next day.

I look forward to working in partnership with you this session.

Kind regards,

Miss Fuller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Well, what a week! We  have all been very excited this week because of Halloween. We had to find and count spooky characters in Maths, Listening Skills was attached to a skeleton and we listened to lots of Halloween stories. Miss Fuller even played the spooky music! The Halloween disco was amazing and we all looked stunning in  our costumes. On  Friday morning, Miss Fuller had to cope with a class full of tired children who had been  out “Trick or Treating”. But the fun goes on. Halloween is now over and we are already onto Guy Fawkes and fireworks. We learned about Firework Safety just in case there are any parties at the weekend!