This week we have been practising writing dictated sentences. This was our first time at doing this but Miss McConnell was pleased with how hard we tried. We learned that we write our sentence on the first line at the top of the page/whiteboard and we write from left to right. We also learned that if we run out of space we write on the next line down, starting at the beginning of the new line. We are also working on leaving a finger space between words. We are getting much better at this and now that we have learned more than half of the sounds and lots of tricky words, we are trying to write words by ourselves.

A good homework task is to call out some words and encourage your child to make these words using their magnetic letters and write the word independently.

In Maths, we will continue to work on Addition and number bonds to 10 up until Christmas. It would be very helpful if you could revise recognising numbers to 20, the number before/after a given number at home and having a number of the day, where your child has got to come up with as many different ways of making that number as they possibly can.

The boys and girls have also been set a challenge to practise zipping up their jacket by themselves and are doing well. Please encourage your child to practise this at home. Thank you.

Have a lovely weekend boys and girls.