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The children takeover!

On Friday, the children in Reception took over ‘Show and Tell’ and did such a fantastic job that we may let them do it every week!

Maths: Understanding Data

This week in Maths we have been estimating weight and length. Ask your child to describe to you what weight and length are and how they can check their predictions.

The children also carried out an investigation this week to find out what was the most common amount of letters in their first names. Ask your child if they can remember which one was the most popular and which one was the least popular letter. Go to the BBC for a great game all about interpreting data.

12 November 2010

This week, it’s Talk Time homework and will be discussed and reviewed on Wednesday 18 November.

I can talk about toys from other countries.

• What toys do children have in other countries?
• Are any of them the same as the ones we have in England?
• Which of our toys come from outside England? How do you know?
• How much do toys cost in other countries?

Why not inspect your toy to see if you can find any clues?

12 November 2010

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges have the suffix ‘ing’.

Apples have some high-frequency words to remember. They will be tested on Friday 19th 2010.

New Literacy Unit

We start a new unit in Literacy this week. In this unit we will be looking at labels. What are they? Can children identify them and then write one of their own?  Next, we will explain that lists are used for remembering, for planning or for presenting information clearly. Lastly, we will discuss captions and write our own simple caption.

By the end of the week, the children will have used lists to organise and present information about toys.

You can support your child to use captions next to pictures at home. Here is an example.

Lego is a construction toy.

It can be put together to build a model.

12 November 2010

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 17 November.

I can practise my letter formation for ‘a’ and ‘e’.

Remember, our Handwriting Guide is easy to follow and a great way to support your child. Children have told us that with better handwriting they feel more confident and proud of their learning!

12 November 2010

This week’s spellings are linked to phonemes we are learning in class.

These will be tested on Friday 19 November.

12 November 2010

This week we have Talk Time homework that links to our topic. We will discuss the topic in class on Wednesday 17 November.

I know how to be safe around roads.

12 November 2010

This week’s spellings are adding ‘ies’ for plurals. It also links to the rule of ‘drop the y for an i’. These will be tested on Friday 19 November. The children can try to think of any other words that follow this rule!

12 November 2010

Here are your spelling lists for this week. They are based on verbs in the past tense.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 19 November.