Good morning yesterday was very exciting having gymnastics for the first time which the children loved and were proud to demonstrate their sequences. Later on, today we will have ball skills. Please can you send your child with shorts and gym shoes next week on both Thursday and Friday plus remove any earrings or jewellery too, this will be a great help. Thank you.

 

In literacy this week we have been learning about the letter hH and set up a hairdressers in the home corner making appointments, and styling hair. Next week we are planning to add a takeaway menu to our home corner. Through various play activities the children are working hard to develop decoding skills  and some 4 letter words. I hope you are now beginning to notice the development in your child’s reading and that they are becoming more confident at deciphering 3 /4 letter words  for homework now, please could you support your children to write 3 sentences. Please encourage your children to try to spell out words when creating their sentences where possible. Please start your sentences with Here is .. I can see/hear … and Look at …this will help our writing skills in class. Thanks for your support with reading helping your child gain confidence and fluency. The children enjoy being word detectives skimming and scanning for words using finger torches in class. We will share many of these skills with you next week at our ‘Stay and Play’ sessions.

 

Topic Toys – we have got some retro toys in class which we have been trying to find more about like how they work. A wind-up fire engine with internal cogs that turn when the key winds it up making the motor move forward. However, the shuttle ball is proving to be the most popular and involves lots of pushing and pulling to make the ball move along the strings. Lots of fun and great for explaining the use of forces. Next, we will look at magnetism.

 

In maths, we are learning to count on to find the missing number in our calculations now. and extending our skills in addition.  Counting quickly in 2s, 5s and 10s. You might like to try these activities on Education City.

Addition Impossible                  Bonds, number bonds               Prince Charming

 

For health and wellbeing, we are looking at safety and medicines alongside  sharing, caring and development of good social skills. This week we looked at where we can safely get medicine and how we store it.

Thanks again for supporting your children with their homework tasks and have a good weekend.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our class next week for our ‘Stay and Play ‘ sessions.

Wishing you a lovely relaxing week ahead.

Mrs Carey