Past tenses

English

This week we have been concentrating on past and present tense, using ‘+ed’ in our writing, actions and in our reading. The children have developed a great understanding for this and are growing in confidence when using the alternative verb as well as ‘ed’ as the suffix. Well done everyone!

Phonics

This week we have been concentrating on the '+ed' at the end of word. The children have matched pictures to their correct vocabulary, investigated '+ed' actions and acted these out in the classroom. They are using +ed with more fluency when reading and spelling.

Maths

We have been learning about ordinal language, using first, second, third etc. when to problem solving. The children have had to use their reading skills as well as their mathematical vocabulary to complete tasks.

Topic

This week the children have been developing their digital competence through writing about their favourite things. Thank you again for bringing in such interesting items, I have enjoyed hearing about them and why they are important to the children. We have learnt how to use ‘pic collage’ and the children have modified their text and pictures on a screen. We have all enjoyed this activity and please keep an eye out for your children’s work on display soon in the entrance to the classroom .  

The children have also been looking at a programming game- Kodable. They have shown a great interest in this and have enjoyed programming their ‘fuzzy kodable’ around a maze.

  

 

Homework

Thank you for letting children bring their 'Favourite things' to school, if they haven’t please do so as we would love to get their picture onto our display.

This week’s homework is set on using past tense. The children must identify the correct verb in its past tense and use this in sentences.

Have fun and thank you for your support with tasks and reading!

Start of a new term

Welcome Back!!!

I hope you all enjoyed the Christmas and New Year break.

English

The children have been pulling out all the stops and doing some amazing writing all about their holidays. I am impressed with how much progress they have all made this year. Some have wrote up to six pages and been able to check over their work, ensuring that their punctuation is correct along with adding detail and feelings. EXCELLENT!!!!!

Phonics

This week we have been concentrating on the 'le' sound at the end of words. The children have matched pictures to their correct vocabulary, investigated 'le' objects within the classroom and shown a use of 'le' within their reading and writing with confidence. Well done!

Maths

Although some of our Maths hasn't been the most interesting this week as we have been recapping on previous concepts and assessing our understanding we have had fun. The children have been looking at patterns within odd and even numbers, place value and revising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s (in preparation for multiplication and division).

Topic

Healthy Eating. We have diamond ranked our wants and needs and provided reasons as to why things are important or not important to use- great reasoning here! Moving on we have starting looking at healthy lifestyles and what we can do to ensure that we are healthy. We have looked at exercise and how this affects our bodies as well as the foods that we should eat. Next week we will be looking further into a balanced diet and investigating the sugar in our favourite drinks.

Homework

Thank you for letting children bring their 'Favourite things' to school next week- they have done some lovely oracy work on these and I am hoping we can write about these more next week. This week's homework is again spellings and a research task into a coming topic- The Frozen Planet. Have fun and thank you for your support with tasks and reading!