Happy Friday everyone!

I’ve been blown away by the amazing dioramas that you’ve all worked so hard on. The children have been so proud when talking about their work and showing it off to the class. A huge well done!

 

NUMERACY

We have completed some work on data handling this week. The children all made a bar chart and were able to ask and answer questions about their charts. We have also continued working on counting in 5’s and using tally marks.

We have also been learning more about numbers and place value. Talk to your children about how to say 2 or 3 digit numbers and to tell you what they are made of.

For example 26 is 2 tens and 6 units or 20 and 6

345 is 3 hundreds, 4 tens and 6 units or 300 and 40 and 6

This is a skill called partitioning which helps with many numeracy skills including addition and subtraction.

We have also been trying to skip count in 1’s, 10’s and 100’s.

Give your child a starting number and see if they can tell you a number sequence.

Like 21 – count in 10’s = 21  31  41  51  61  etc

LITERACY

The children have worked well on their phonemes this week. Remember to find them in their homework diaries to support their learning at home.

The apples are learning the phoneme sound ‘aw’ as in straw

The bananas are learning ‘wh’ as in when

All groups should continue working on blending sounds to read and write words using their phonic knowledge.

ART

The children have worked really well together this week to create an under the sea collage with a partner. We learned about how all the things in the ocean support each other within the food chain or for shelter. It was great to see the children being creative!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend! Fingers crossed for some sunshine!