Week 4

Monday: 

Tuesday: Library.

Wednesday: "Go4it" with Adam.  Bring PE uniform if you need to.

Thursday:  

Friday: Spelling test.

Hi everyone. It’s week 4 already!

There aren’t too many interruptions in our timetable this week, so we can get a lot more learning and assessments done.

Reading

I have almost completed running records (reading testing) with the class. This ensures that the children are in a reading group with others who are reading at a similar level.

Thank you for reading with your child at home every night- it really does make a difference.

Reading eggs

Most of the children are able to log onto Reading eggs by themselves using their login and password details from last year.

Can you please see if your child can do this on their own.

Spelling

It was our first week of spelling testing on Friday. Thank you so much to Eleanor (Emma’s Nana) who has offered to do this for us each week- it would be very hard to get this done without her!

Those who missed out will be tested on Monday.

If your child got any words wrong- they have the same list to learn this week.

Writing

We are well into our writing programme. If you want to help your child to write at home, encourage them to write about what they did, write a description of something, write a letter to a friend, or write a shopping list.

If the children don’t know how to spell a word, they need to  st-r-e-t-ch out the sounds they can hear in the word, write it down as they do this, then underline the word.

This week we will be looking at the format for writing a report.

Maths

During the past 3 weeks we have been learning maths games and activities to help with the rotation of each group during maths time.

A maths site I get the children to use during maths is ICT Maths. You might like to have a look around this site with your child.

There are also lots of neat apps you can download to practice basic facts, such Maths Pop.

We have been looking at patterns to 10.

Our top group has built on this by making 'tidy' 10 numbers when adding numbers together.

We have also been looking at adding doubles to 10.

Mornings

Thank you for getting your children to school on time. I know how busy mornings can be, but it is nice if the children can have a run around and a chat with their friends before class starts.

Have a great week everyone.

Eliana