Happy Monday, 2 weeks to go!

Just reading and maths home work this week.

Reading
Strawberries – No Ball Games!
Pineapples – Where is Joe?
Grapes – Funny Ears

Read over the text to develop confidence and fluency with decoding and tracking words.

Maths

Children should continue with the 1d+1d booklet that they have at home.

Happy Monday!

This week the children in Room 3 and Room 4 are going to be designing and creating paper mache Island models. If you have any spare newspaper lying around the house, we would greatly appreciate if it could be sent into class. The more, the better 🙂

Thanks
Miss Laidlaw :)-

December already, wow!

Listed below is the reading, spelling and maths focus for each group.

Reading

Strawberries – Fizzkid Liz (Mon) No Ball Games!(Wed)

Lemons – What is He?

Pineapples – What’s it made of?

Grapes – Be Quiet!

Read over the text to develop confidence and fluency with decoding and tracking words.

Spelling
Red Team
A common words assessment has been completed and sent home in your child’s bag. Children should consolidate words that they found tricky.

(Children should continue to work on these common words this week. If you feel they are secure with these words, they should practise the common words in their reading books)

Purple Team
A common words assessment has been completed and sent home in your child’s bag. Children should consolidate words that they found tricky.

Yellow Team

‘h’ and ‘v’ – hint, hurt, hand, help, vest, visit, travel
Common words – was, went, his

Your child has been provided with a spelling activities sheet. Each night, they should complete a spelling activity. This can be a combination of written and active tasks throughout the week, to ensure your child has a firm grasp of the weekly phoneme words and common words.

A spelling test and dictation will be done at the end of the week in class to ensure the children are secure before they progress.

Maths
The children have been given a new mental maths booklet to encourage fast recall of addition number facts. This can be worked on in the upcoming weeks, one page per week. (As the booklet is copied back to back, the children can hand in their completed sheet every second Friday) The children should be on sheet 3 this week.

Additionally, we have been learning about money in class.

Circles
Children should be able to recognise and describe the different coins. They should be able to order the coins by value and suggest which coins to use to make totals up to 10p. We will also be looking at equivalence (10p or 5p and 5p or 5p, 2p, 2p and 1p)

Squares and Triangles
Children should be able to recognise and describe the different coins. They should be able to order the coins by value and suggest which coins to use to make set totals. We will also be look at equivalence (10p or 5p and 5p). This week we will begin to look at adding items to the value of 20p and beyond as well as calculating change from 20p.