Phase 3,4 Reading
Well done to everyone who has been reading regularly at home by accessing the e-books.
The work completed in the Reading Records looks great! Here are some good examples below.
Keep reading regularly at home and please contact us if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Team 3,4
1A class reward
Over the past few weeks, 1A have been working really hard on following our school rules and remembering 3-2-1-STOP.
3 – silent voices
2 – empty hands
1 – eyes on the speaker
Our class focus has been everyone having ’empty hands’ when an adult in the classroom says ‘3-2-1-STOP’. Today we managed to all do that for the tenth time, so we had some time on the adventure playground as a treat. We had a fantastic time and the children were very responsible and safe.
Well done 1A!
Writing: survivor diary
Chidren in Year 5/6 have been reading Survivors by David Long. We have been inspired to write as if we are survivors writing in our diary.
Help at home: discuss which of the 8Rs it takes to be a survivor:
- being ready
- being responsive
- being reflective
- being resourceful
- remembering
- risk-taking
- being resilient
- being responsible
Tackling Tenths in Maths!
This week in Year 5, we’ve been exploring tenths in both decimal and fraction form – and what a fantastic job the children have done! They’ve been learning how to add and subtract tenths, including how tenths can be combined to make numbers greater than one whole, or subtracted to go below one whole.
We’ve also been investigating the relationship between decimals and fractions – discovering how these two number forms can be equivalent. The children have impressed us with their growing confidence, clear explanations, and their use of models and number lines to support their thinking.
It’s been a brilliant week full of lightbulb moments and mathematical curiosity!
Help at Home: Ask your child to explain how 0.7 is the same as 7/10 – or challenge them to add 2.6 and 1.4!
Reading fluency
Each reading lesson, we incorporate some reading fluency. This allows the children to see the same short text all week and allows them to feel familiar and comfortable with it. Over a half term we provide a wide range of texts from poems to non-fiction. Fluency takes on the same structure each week. The teacher reads the text aloud on the first day whilst the children track the words. The following day we echo read. This is where the children echo back a line at a time. As the children become more familiar with the text, they read with a partner and then finally aloud to themselves. These sessions see children’s fluency increase and their knowledge of vocabulary also develop.
The text we’ve been reading this week links to topic and is all about interpolation.
Help at home: Get your child to read the text aloud to you. See how fluent they are!
Welcome to Reception meeting
It was great to see so many of you at the ‘Welcome to Reception‘ meeting this week. For those of you who were unable to attend, please find attached the PowerPoint shared at the meeting.
Writing – Must Dos
In Writing, we have been focusing on our ‘must dos’. These include making sure that each sentence we write has a capital letter at the start and punctuation at the end. We have also been making sure we use capital letters for proper nouns.
This has been important to remember in our Geography topic too when labelling our maps with the names of countries, cities and seas.
Help at home by writing a sentence with deliberate mistakes for your child to correct – playing teacher is always fun!
Getting to know you.
We’ve had such an exciting and busy week in nursery. Our returning children came back telling us all about their holidays, finding their friends and playing in their favourite places. We then welcomed our new friends at our stay and play sessions, grown-ups came too, to join in with all of the fun activities.
This week we’ve been busy helping the children to settle into their new environment. It can take quite some time to remember where everything is but the children are doing so well. They’ve been exploring all of the nursery provision, from building in the construction site to baking in the mud kitchen. We have had lots of fun!
Here are some pictures from our very busy first week in nursery,
Finding out what everyone enjoys playing is our next job. You can help us with this by adding a note to your child’s photo on our “What makes us tick” board. Whether its diggers or dancing to K-pop, we want to know. Ask your child’s key person for more details.
A few reminders
Please don’t forget your child needs a coat every day.
Please clearly name your child’s water bottle.
Don’t forget to register for your child’s milk with the dairy (details in your welcome pack)
Please return the” All about me” sheet – another way we can get to know lots about your child.
Geography: Where in the World am I?
This week, we’ve been learning about maps as part of our Geography topic – ‘Where in the world am I? We have been using an atlas to find the page that will support our learning the best. We have looked at maps showing the main cities in The United Kingdom and maps that show the highest mountains and longest rivers in The UK. We found out that The River Severn is the longest river in The UK and Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in The UK and Scotland.
Help at home by quizzing your child on their United Kingdom knowledge. How many rivers, cities and mountains can they name? Have a look at an atlas or google earth to locate some of them.
Science-The Human Body
We have begun our biology topic: The Human Body. We have been able to name many parts of our body and learn some new ones. This week we were working scientifically by investigating the question: ‘Do the oldest children have the longest feet?‘ After comparing our feet, we drew around them and put them in order of birthday month. Here are some of our findings:
No because some of the youngest children have big feet.
Some older children have big feet and some have small.
We all grow at different times and will be different sizes.
Help at home by naming and talking about different body parts, bones and their function.