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This week’s phonemes

This week, we’re learning the phonemes ow (as in cow) and oi (as in noise). The new ‘tricky’ word is they.

This half-term, we’re concentrating on letter formation. Please encourage your child to use our handwriting style.

Well Done!

Congratulations to Archie and Owen for being elected to represent Reception Class in the School Council. I am sure they will do a good job.

24 February 2012

This is our last week of practising words which have split digraphs.  The last ‘e’ in the words isn’t a sound that we say, but it works with another letter to make the sound; for example, hop (with a short ‘o’ sound) to hope (with a longer ‘oh’ sound).

These will be tested on Friday 02 March.

24 February 2012

This week’s spellings all require your child to double up for short vowel sounds.

24 February 2012

This week, we’re learning to spell superlatives, which are adjectives at their ‘most’ extreme:

• biggest
• nastiest
• happiest
• smelliest
• heaviest
• naughtiest
• thinnest
• angriest

Learn all the spellings and find three more superlatives of your own.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 02 March.

24 February 2012

This week’s spellings are slightly different. Instead of a list of words, I simply want your child to be able to distinguish between the two forms of ‘no’:

• no – For example: No, I don’t want to play.
• know – For example: I know my times tables.

We’ll be looking at this through the week, but if you could practise these activities at home it will ensure your child has a thorough understanding:

On piece of paper, write ‘no’ on one side and ‘know’ on the other. Read out a sentence and they have to show the correct ‘no’.

Have some sample sentences where they write the correct form of no. For example:

• I know my spellings. (know)
• There is no way through. (no)

If you’ve any questions, feel free to speak with me any time.

Ice Skating

On Wednesday 22 February, eight children were taken to the Ice Cube in Leeds.  They’ve been working on a project in school called “Leading the Way”; they have worked over a long period of time with Mrs Wilson and Mrs Taylor and have set up a project with Reception children.  They were taken ice skating as a reward for all their hard work; they had a brilliant time, although very wet, and were excellent role models for the school.  A lot of time was spent falling over and some very soggy clothes were taken home! No doubt there will be some bruises as evidence of the visit!

Hobby Half Day

On the last day of the half-term, children enjoyed another successful Hobby Half Day with all sorts of activities going on!  From i-jamming on iPads to fitness circuits, all of the children had a very busy afternoon.  All ages of children were working together and learning from each other and every classroom was a hive of activity.  Here are just a few photos to show you what was going on.

24 February 2012

This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 29 February 2012.

Next week, on Thursday 01 March, it’s World Book Day.  To celebrate, all the classes are having a themed day on the subject of reading.  There will be lots of activities, including an invitation for your child to dress up as a favourite book character.  Linked to this, we’d like all children in school to consider their favourite story and explain why…

I can say why I like a book.

You could create a comic strip, write a book review, draw a story map, write a letter to the author… Anything you like that celebrates reading!

As always, the creative homework should be on one side of the A4 Homework Books, although creative ways to extend this are allowed!

24 February 2012

This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘y’. Your child will be tested on Friday 02 March 2012.

• bony
• greasy
• lazy
• scary
• shiny
• tasty
• slimy
• wavy
• nosy
• spiky