Good morning, this has been a very exciting day week with our Christmas Nativity taking centre stage. The children loved learning and singing the songs and for anyone that managed along to the church on Tuesday I’m sure they would agree the singing was fab. WE have enjoyed the songs so much we will be singing them some more next week in class! Our school Christmas parties have started and today it is our turn. The children are all excited and looking wonderful and really looking forward to dancing the afternoon away. The weather this week has been a big feature as it has been too cold to go out and of course slippy so this has helped our understanding of winter and the change of the seasons. Hopefully next week will be better and we will be able to get back outdoors.

 

In literacy we are continuing to revise and learn our initial sounds and this week we have been learning all about the letter uU for the sound umbrella, up and uniform. We have been wearing elf and Santa hats in class when working in Santa’s workshop as our uniform. The children have loved writing letters in our office, stamping and creating paper patterns. The elves have also assisted Santa by wrapping lots of presents and delivering them. It’s certainly been a busy class this week. The children continue to concentrate hard developing decoding skills using a Christmas theme for 3 letter words with a, e, i,  o  and u in the middle. I hope you are now beginning to see in your child’s reading that they are becoming more confident at deciphering 3 letter words due to their phoneme knowledge and can now make 3 letter words well helping our writing skills. You may have noticed in their homework that we have moved the focus onto rhyme and 3 letter words. The children enjoy being word detectives skimming and scanning for words and this week we have used some super Christmas books to find common words using finger torches.

 

Please could you continue to 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 is really helpful.

 

In maths  we are continuing with data handling and Venn Diagrams. The children actively made a Venn diagram with 3D shapes of different colours and then sorted some Christmas presents to reinforce this understanding. Using tally marks and bundling bigger items/ numbers into groups of 5 helped us sort larger numbers of parcels.

 

 

For health and wellbeing, we have used the Nativity story to promote kindness and consideration for others and the importance of sharing. We have even been managed to link sharing with our maths and early fraction work.

 

Thanks again for supporting your children with their homework tasks and hope you enjoyed sharing the Christmas tree maths task this week.

 

Thank you for all that you do at home to support your child’s learning.

 

Wishing you a lovely relaxing week ahead, if that’s possible on the lead up to Christmas.

Thanks again

Rosie Carey