Phonics
We learned 2 new sounds this week. Use the link below to listen to the song for the ‘k’ sound.
Roma: “we learned the k sound.”
Olivier: “it is a yellow sound.”
Anna: “it comes from the back of your mouth.”
Anna: “we learned the ‘ck’ sound too.”
Carter: “you use this sound at the end of a word.”
Freya: “I made the word cat.”
Home Learning: Can you spell words at home where the ‘ck’ sound comes at the end of a word. Remember the rule!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1gyLJOpCzQ
Maths
We have been learning about measure this week. We having been using the words: big/small, heavy/light, empty/fully, tall/short in class to talk about objects. We have taken part in lots of different activities and we look forward to sharing some of these with you at our stay and play event coming soon.
We were using balance scales to weigh objects and Shea told us the scales need “to be the same.”
We were playing with water and sand to help us develop our understanding of capacity and we were trying to use the language of full and empty. At the sink Scott told us that we were “filling up cups.”
When learning about height we had to order our dinosaurs.
Celine: “line up the dinosaurs and you had to put the biggest first and all the way to the smallest.”
We try to measure different objects using things we can find in the classroom. We used pom-poms and Roma told us that we were “checking what size things were.”
Home Learning: Use this language at home when measuring different things. Challenge: we also spoke about the 2nd smallest or 2nd biggest thing; the cups which were half full or half empty etc.
Number Talks
Shea: “we had to make numbers using rekenreks.”
Carter: “we made numbers with rekenreks and we had to guess how Mrs Davenport made the number.”
Home Learning: Adults draw a dot pattern at home but keep number in 2 lines like this:
Tell your child that you have 4 dots and they have to try and copy your pattern. They may make the dots a number of different ways before the guess your way. Try this with different numbers.
Music
We enjoyed music with Mrs Steele. Here is what we were doing this week:
Pati: “singing”
Rojin: “playing some musical instruments.”
Mass
We went to mass on Tuesday at St Philips.
Lucas: “we went with our buddies to mass.”
Luke: “we walked to mass.”
Anna: “we sing songs at mass.”
Freya: “we listened to Father Kenneth.”
Michelle: “we prayed to God.”
Topic
Logan: “we got a letter from Trex.”
Jane: “the letter said that he was long and had a tail and sharp teeth.”
Roma: “I was really happy when Trex came.”
Trex is a dinosaur (a T-Rex) who has joined our class. Trex doesn’t know much about school or about the local area. We are going to help Trex settle in at school and teach him about our local area.
Assembly
We had a special assembly on Thursday to say goodbye to someone special.
Freya: “it was sad because John the Janny is going away.”
Jane: “it is called retiring.”
Outdoor Learning
Outdoor learning was so much fun this week. Here are our highlights:
Shea: “we had to make dens.”
Amelia: “we played with the leaves that had fallen on the floor.”
Roma: “we picked berries and then painted with them in the classroom.”
Freya: “that was yucky.”
Luke: “we picked up sticks and leaves and we were measuring what size they were.”
Carter: “a tree had fallen down and we had to climb over it.”
Freya: “Roma showed us a fairy house.”
Roma: “it was a fairy door in a tree.”
What a lovely week. I loved that I got to take part as a parent. My highlight was watching the children take the lead in their learning from picking berries to painting with the juice and of course building dens. Thank you.