Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a wonderful and restful Christmas break. It has been lovely to welcome the children back after the holidays, full of excitement and wonderful stories to share.
In English, children have started a new unit of work based on the book The Comet by Joe Todd-Stanton. On Tuesday, they arrived at school to find a strange glowing light and a range of cooking utensils left in the classroom! They rehearsed asking questions and then wrote their own questions in their books to find out more about the unusual light and objects.They also used adjectives to describe Nyla’s home and used imperative verbs to create a poster.
In Phonics, the children have learnt the Phase 5 graphemes: ‘y’ as in happy, ‘ea’ as in head, and ‘wh’ as in wheel They also revised the tricky words ‘want’ and ‘water’, and learnt the new tricky words ‘any’ and ‘many’.
In Maths, the children have started a new topic on place value to 20. They explored the numbers 10, 11, 12 and 13, using counters, dice and multilink cubes to represent and understand these numbers.
In History, the children began their new topic on Castles. They looked at a variety of castles in the UK and learnt who built the first castles and why.
In Science, the children began exploring the season of Winter.
Next Week
English – The children will use command sentences to write a letter of advice. They will write thought bubbles and learn about the suffix ‘-ing’.
Maths – The children will explore the numbers 14–20, find 1 more and 1 less, and use a number line to 20.
History – The children will learn about UK castles built by the Normans.
PSHE – The children will identify their successes and describe how these make them feel proud.
RE – The children will explore how they belong to a family and community. They will draw and write about something that is important to their family.
ICT – The children will practise switching on and logging into a computer and use a mouse to drag and drop.
Science – The children will observe and draw the tree in the playground that they previously drew in Autumn. They will also track the weather, focusing on weather symbols and temperature.
Spellings for Next Friday’s Test
Group 1:
carry, happy, funny, silly, head, read, bread, ready
Tricky words: are, was
Group 2:
pain, rain, sail, tail
Tricky word: the
Notes
NumBots
The children’s NumBots login details have been stuck into the front of their reading logs. NumBots is a fantastic online maths learning programme that helps children build fluency in number facts, particularly addition, subtraction, number bonds and mental maths.
We hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
Mrs Flatley, Mrs Blatch & Miss Russon
