Language

Phonemes

We have been learning the phonemes wh and ng.

Homework ideas

• It is nearly Halloween during this fortnight, so why not use these phonemes to help you write a descriptive poem or piece of writing. When, where and what as questions in a spooky story – “Where  are you?” said the witch.  Bang Bang rattled the door.
• These are fun websites to practise the phonemes and use the words correctly in sentences.http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html (for ng words and revision)

Onset and rime

• We have been practising – “am” words e.g. ram, Sam, jam etc and making up silly “am” stories. Next week it will be “it” words, so you make up a silly story to share with us. How about using – hit, fit, lit, sit, etc?
• http://www.starfall.com/n/skills/wh/play.html
• http://www.ictgames.com/chuteShuffle/index.html (for ng words)

Reading

• A new reading book will be given each Friday. The days for reading are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, so please make sure that pupils have their reading books in their bags each day.
• Can you find any words with our phonemes in them?
• What is happening at the beginning, middle and end of the story? Tell someone the most important things that happen.

Number

We have been practising our number bonds to 10 (10 + 0 = 10, 5 + 5 = 10 etc) and will be extending our additions up to 20, this will include adding doubles (e.g. 2 + 2 ). We will use different materials- cubes, number lines, etc and will be using ten frames to help visualise the numbers.

• Totals- Give your child a total within 20 e.g. 6, 9, 17(that is appropriate to their confidence with number). Ask them to draw pictures to show ways of combining groups of objects to make that total.

• Doubles -Explore the pattern when adding doubles 0+0, 1+1, 2+2 etc. This links well to –
• Investigating – dice/domino patterns. Show a number and ask the child to describe the pattern. This can help children learn to combine and partition numbers in the range 1-10 without counting by ones. Play dominoes and roll dice to practise adding skills.

These are fun games to help you practice:

http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum.html

HWB/Interdisciplinary Learning

Think about the rules for keeping safe at Halloween and Bonfire Night.

• Draw a poster in your Thinking jotter which shows which rules are important for keeping safe at these times.
• Rules are important in lots of places – how many can you think of? Make a note of them in your jotter.

http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids

This is a comprehensive site which covers lots of information about rights, responsibilities, rules and discipline.

Today we were creating passports in French on Education City.

We we typed in our name and age, then created a picture of ourselves and chose a stamp for the passport. It was good fun!

I hope one that everyone has a great week. See you soon. Au revoir!

We were thinking about our Wants and Needs today. In groups we sorted cards into either Wants or Needs. With some pictures we had to have discussions to make a choice.

Then we came together to find out whether we agreed. This led us to a great discussion about the Wants and Needs of people around the world.

In in number we were making human sums. This is the sum 6 +4=10. We had to have a plus sign person and an equals person. Why not try some human sums at home too!

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This afternoon we worked co-operatively together to finish making the sukkahs. These temporary buildings are used by Jewish people during the festival of Sukkot. Meals are eaten in them and some people sleep in them too. The roof is covered in branches so that the moon and stars can still be seen at night.

We made Lego tables and chairs too. Don’t the sukkahs look great!

Today we completed our Momotaro dance/drama.  We filmed ourselves doing a performance.  We tried hard with our facial expressions and movements.  I’m afraid the video is too big a file to put up now but I hope you will be able to see it soon.

We looked online at Japanese food.  Onigiri are rice balls with a secret filling.  We weren’t too keen on the traditional Japanese fillings so we used cheese and cucumber when we made ours.  If you think they are delicious you can say “Oishi”.  This means delicious in Japanese.  Tomorrow we will write a recipe to tell you how to make them.

Today we were thinking about our learning in numberwork. We made our own sheet including our own ideas.

This sheet has ideas about before, after and between, Japanese number symbols and a number line.

This is sheet includes numbers to 30 and Japanese symbols to 10.

We were counting up to 30 and back down to 0. We are getting better at thinking about the numbers 19 and 29 in the sequence. Keep practising!

It is the 1st October and look at the lovely weather.

In the Learning Zone we were involved in different tasks such as:

Making a a sukkah out of construction materials.

Reading and stamping books in the library corner.

Sorting into dinosaurs and other animals.

What activity was your child involved in today?