Good morning,

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Last week in class we going back in time with the story ‘Cave Baby’ and looked at what we believe mammoths and sabre tooth tigers were like. The children did some fabulous drawings of a sabre tooth tiger and we will paint them this week. They really enjoyed finding out about them and explored their habitats. The children watched Newsround on Friday and it was great to hear what they found fascinating but what was particularly nice was  the article about the coral reef and the children recalled a lot of the work we did last year when we studied ‘under the sea’. It also took us back to lots of the work we did on habitats and COP 26. We shared lots of great memories. I think you might also find they are quite interested in the Winter Olympics in the coming weeks.

Language this week:

Dory – sound v and continue with words have, just, to

Nemo – sound au and words because, week, keep, when

We will try to embed the words after the holidays that we have learnt over the last 2 terms and to do this please try out the tricky word games on Education City. These can repeated to build confidence to remember them,  help decode them and where possible to spell them.

In maths we are continuing our work on addition and have recently being adding 3 numbers and the children are getting very good at looking for clues to add these numbers mentally by using strategies of finding a pair that makes 10 or is there a double or near double. Again please continue to use the games on Education City to help with this.

Thanks again,

Mrs Carey.