Welcome back,
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful and restful Christmas break; it has been lovely to see the children after the Christmas holidays full of excitement and wonderful stories.
In English, the children started a new unit of work based on the book ‘Send for a Superhero’ by Michael Rosen. They were introduced to the two ‘baddies’ in the story called Filth and Vacuum. They used the conjunctions ‘and,’ ‘because,’ ‘or’ and ‘but’ to write about these characters. They also used adjectives to create wanted posters for the character of ‘Vacuum’.
In Phonics, the children have learnt the Phase 5 graphemes ‘y’ as in happy, ‘ea’ as in head, ‘wh’ as in wheel, ‘oe’ as in toe and ‘ou’ as in shoulder. They also learnt the tricky words ‘any,’ ‘many’ and ‘again.’
In Maths, the children started a new topic on place value to 20. They have explored the numbers 10, 11, 12 and 13. They have made and explored these numbers using counters, dice and multi-link cubes.
In History, the children started their new topic based on ‘Castles.’ They looked at a variety of castles in the UK and found out who built the first castles and why.
In Science, the children continued to explore the season of Winter by observing and drawing a tree in the playground that they previously drew in Autumn. We also tracked the weather, focusing on weather symbols and temperature.
Next week
English- The children will use adjectives to describe superheroes, they will think of and write questions to ask a character from the book ‘Send for a Superhero.’ They will make a list of accessories a Superhero might need and explore plurals.
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 find out about UK castles that were built by the Normans.
PSHE – The children will identify their successes and describe how this makes 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 be switching on and logging onto a computer and use a mouse to drag and drop.
Spellings for next Friday’s test are:
Group 1: carry, happy, funny, silly, ready, head, tread, bread, spread,
Tricky words: some, come
Group 2: happy, silly, carry, funny
Tricky words: some, come
Group 3: fur, curl, hurt, turn
Tricky word: some
Have a fantastic weekend
Mrs Flatley
