Hello,
Book Week has been super this week. Thank you to everyone who has purchased books from our Travelling Book Fair (school benefit from this) and thank you for your support with costumes for World Book Day – the children looked fab! Next week is another super week with Science Week. This year’s theme is about curiosity. I will update with photos next week and show your our bird nest investigation.
There is a key information blog update so you can find all of our curriculum coverage, homework and knowledge organisers for the half term ahead leading to Easter. If you haven’t looked at that yet, please do so that you know what is coming this (short) half term.
Spellings next week: Week 3 spellings build on the split digraphs (a-e and e-e) from last week – this week we have the split vowel digraphs: i-e and o-e. Our words are: five, ride, like, time, side, home, those, woke, hope, hole. Please complete week 3 worksheet of your spelling in the homework pack next week and login to doodlespell to play some games with those words. The new words will be available from Monday.
Reading: Please try to re-read books to help build fluency, speed and understanding. We are reminding lots of children to ‘Fred in their head’ rather than blending every word – this might be a useful phrase to use at home. Re-reading the same book 3-5 times is recommended. We have a few weeks now until we reassess the children but we will be keen to talk about progress at our upcoming parents evening.
Please ensure your child has their books to return in their hand on Monday morning so that we can quickly receive those. Next week, as usual, we will swap books on Monday and Thursday. Thank you for reminding your child to carry their water bottles to help us avoid spillages and water damage.
Maths: Please login to doodle and complete your daily quick fire questions plus any assignments you have outstanding. Try to stay in the green zone by logging in every day.
We had our first topic lesson about ‘How can one person make a difference?’ and the children loved exploring the terms ‘fair’ and ‘not fair’. We have also learnt about Emily Davison and women’s votes now – maybe your child can tell you what they have learnt about her? Please begin thinking about our next topic homework and the project you will choose to do – they are very excited to see what we will learn about next week. Please choose one activity to do with your child for this half term. The homework tasks have been created to give children lots of choice and we have been so impressed with the work you have already completed together.
See you next week,
Mrs Jones