Today we were learning about signs of spring. We made spring blossom trees using paper and tissue.

We have been folding and cutting shapes into halves as part of our maths work.

We. used our hands, paper clips, unifix cubes and centimetre cubes  to measure different objects around the school.

During this week and over the Easter holidays you should help your child to revise all the work covered so far in spelling, sounds, common words and handwriting.

Sounds

Revise all sounds in the sound booklets by reading them out loud every night. Can your child read the words fluently without hesitating?

Spelling

Practise any spelling words written in your child’s jotter that need more practise. Write them in small and capital letters, in waterfall writing or rainbow writing each night. Try writing a simple sentence using each word too.

Common Words

Read all the words out loud on your word wall. Can your child read them without hesitating?

Handwriting

Aa, Cc,  Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Qq and Ss.

Practise small and capitals, completing at least one row of each letter in your jotter. Please ensure the letters start at the correct position, are formed correctly and are the correct size in relation to the lines in the jotter.

We were travelling in different ways along the apparatus, jumping  onto the mats and rolling or balancing on the mats in the gym today.

We used the clocks today to set them to analogue and digital o’clock times.

Sounds – ‘ow’ (growl, crown, flower)

Spelling – now, down, all.

Common Words – will, wish, year, yellow.

Handwriting – Qq, Ff, Ss.

Practise small and capitals, completing at least one row of each letter in your jotter. Please ensure the letters start at the correct position, are formed correctly and are the correct size in relation to the lines in the jotter.

We are learning about traditional tales and fairytales as part of our literacy work.

The book we are reading this week is ‘The Enormous Turnip’.  Read the story together (either from a book or on-line) and discuss the events. Focus on the repetition and how the same phrases are repeated throughout the story.

Make up a similar story together orally, changing the characters and things they do repeatedly.  We will be writing a story like this in class so this will allow the children to bring good ideas to share with the others.

We had a great Red Nose Day today. We all dressd n red and some had crazy hair too!

Making red nose and crazy hair faces using collage materials.

Enjoying making and eating red nose biscuits.

Making up cool dance moves to the Red Nose song.

We learned to tell the time today using the clocks. We worked with a partner to set the clock to different o’clock times. We know the big hand points to 12 for o’clock and the little hand tells us the hour.

We read some great books on World Book Day and did some fun activities. Don’t we look great dressed as our favourite characters or ready for a bedtime story?

We programmed the Bee-Bots today to help us with our position work. We had to get them to move forwards, backwards, turn left or right. It was quite tricky!