Author: Mrs Wood

Don’t forget our class assembly is on Wednesday 01 February at 2.40pm.

See you there!

 

We’ve been learning how to compare sets of objects using the language ‘more’ and ‘fewer’. The children were challenged to prove a set had fewer objects than another.

This is how they presented their learning.

  

Thank you to everyone who attended the phonics sessions last week. We hope you found them useful.

Here are some captions and sentences your child can write at home. The new phonemes ar, ai, er, or, air, oi, ear, oo, igh, ow, ee, ur  These will be taught over the next few weeks.

• Mark and Carl got wet in the rain.
• The farmer gets up at six in the morning.
• Jill has fair hair but Jack has dark hair.
• Jim has seven silver coins.
• I can hear an owl hoot at night.
• Nan is sitting in the rocking-chair.
• Bow down to the king and queen.
• Gurdeep had a chat with his dad.
• I can see a pair of boots on the mat.
• It has been hot this year.

Don’t forget to attend our phonics mornings this week.

You’ll be able to see how the children are progressing and find out how you can help to support them at home.

These sessions will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9am.

See you there!

The children are enjoying the new clock in the home corner and are teaching each other how to tell the time!

This week we have been learning about estimating.

The children had to estimate the number of bears that could can fit inside Ewan’s shoe.

Lots of children accurately guessed 9!

Then they had a go at guessing how many bears my boot would hold!

 

The children enjoyed reading their bananas this week!

 

We have begun phase 3 of the ‘Letters and Sounds’ phonics programme.

The purpose of this phase is to:

• teach more graphemes, most of which are made of two letters, for example, ‘oa’ as in boat
• practise blending and segmenting a wider set of CVC words, for example, fizz, chip, sheep, light
• learn all letter names and begin to form them correctly
• read more tricky words and begin to spell some of them
• read and write words in phrases and sentences

Here are some examples of words your children will be reading: tail, week, right, soap, food, park, burn, cord, town, soil

Tricky words
During phase 3 the children will learn more ‘tricky words’: he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, her, they, all, said

In addition, during this phase children will be expected to begin to write sentences independently.

If you have any questions, please ask and do attend our next phonics open mornings on Wednesday 18, Thursday 19 and Friday 20 January.

Thank you for attending our Maths Mornings last week.

We hope you enjoyed them and found them useful.

Don’t forget this week’s Phonics Mornings.