Good morning, it was good to get out for some outdoor learning on Thursday afternoon, but it is definitely getting a bit cooler so please ensure that your children are wearing warm clothes that will keep them dry and are easily washed, thanks. Both classes worked very well, and enjoyed throwing and catching, playing with hoops and getting very confident at hitting the target, even some targets set with hoops being held up in the air! Yesterday unfortunately wasn’t nice enough to use the sand but still had lots of fun in the Ozone – climbing and exploring.

 

In literacy we are continuing to revise and learn our initial sounds and this week we have been learning all about the letter Ff examining both sounds f and ff. This gave us the opportunity to look at ‘The Rainbow Fish’ and the children all recognised the importance of sharing deduced from the story. Using the theme of the Rainbow Fish, we have been fishing for letters to make 3 letter words. We also created a farm with construction building enclosures for the sheep, pigs and goats. The children have enjoyed being word detectives skimming and scanning some super books for this week’s common words using finger torches. They were also noting down words beginning with f.

Please could you support your child with their reading. The children are continually learning skills in blending letters together to read words they are not familiar with by using their knowledge of the initial sounds. Thanks this will be really helpful.

In maths this week we were looking more closely at 2D shapes and patterns and symmetry. We have created lovely patterns on our Rainbow Fish. The main focus this week has however been symmetry. Making 2D symmetrical pictures using pattern blocks and also colouring butterflies. Today we will draw Pudsey and see if we can make his spots symmetrical but we will need to leave off his headband.

Please continue to discuss 3D shape names if you get any deliveries this week in boxes or look at the containers and food in your kitchen cupboards to see if you can spot any cubes, cuboids, cylinders, spheres, pyramids or if anyone is lucky enough to have a Toblerone bar then triangular prisms. Enjoy playing spot the shape.

For health and wellbeing, we are continuing to explore social wellbeing through Elmer stories. This week we shared the story about Elmer and Aunt Zelda, who is an old, deaf elephant. This has helped the children build empathy and reinforce their understanding of the importance of being helpful and kind in particular with others who need it. Children in need today will certainly reinforce this week’s work and allow our children to see this on a much wider scale. The children will be involved in lots of teamwork games and activities to support Pudsey today enhancing this learning. In turn, these activities are successfully helping the development of good listening skills for learning and in turn being responsible citizens and overall demonstrating kindness towards each other in all that we do.

 

Thanks again for supporting your children with their homework tasks and all that you do at home to help them learn.

Wishing you a lovely relaxing week ahead.

Mrs Carey.