What a quick and busy month February was!

I’m sorry for not managing to keep you all up to date with what’s been happening in our class 🙁

Here are some of the things we’ve been doing

Literacy

• Continuing to work on phonemes and spelling (see homework diaries)
• Reading of new books and developing common word vocabulary and decoding strategies
• Learning how to create story boards to retell a story or add/change bits of a story
• Picking out the main points of a story to help us write and draw a beginning, middle and end
• Learning how to write a recount of a personal event or activity

French

We have loved having our French bear, Camembear, back in class this term. He is teaching us how to say please and thank you in French. He is also teaching us the colours in French. We love singing his songs!

Numeracy

We have covered work on the following:-

• Subtraction
• 3D shape
• Measure – capacity and weight
• Counting and sequencing
• Position and movement

The children have enjoyed lots of practical activities to help understand the concepts in Numeracy. Please continue to support your child at home by completing tasks on Education City and working together to complete the challenges set in the Numeracy Scrapbook.

Social Studies and Science

In science, we have enjoyed learning about the Sun, Moon and Earth. How they are related to each other and how they give us night and day.

Our new topic is ‘The Ocean’

We have started by looking at the names of the Oceans around the World and what water is closest to us. Then we moved on to some of the animals you would find in the Ocean and how they rely on each other to survive. We are looking at fishing now. What is fishing, why do we do it and are there any problems with fishing. We will also be covering water pollution in this topic.

HWB

In PE, we have started working on our racquet skills. We are listening very well and developing our hand-eye coordination in lots of fun ways!

Outdoor Learning

We finished our block on literacy outdoors where we had great fun. I think the favourite activity was building the reading den. Each group managed to make a completely different design. Some fantastic engineering!

We are moving on to a ‘Water’ theme where we will be working on capacity experiments, creating a sea scene and measuring and drawing some underwater creatures.

Children are also going to be making a bird feeder to bring home. We are looking for 4pt milk cartons to be brought in to make these out of!

All photos to follow….