This week we have been very busy yet again.
We have been learning about pets. We have been finding out which animals are best as pets, which pets the children in ladybird class own, what a pet needs to be happy and healthy and if we don't have pets which pets we would like to own.
We also have a class pet! He is a stuffed cuddly toy fish called Freddy. He will be visiting lots of your homes and keeping a diary while he is there. Please feel free to take pictures of Freddie in your home and stick them in the diary to help you to show us what you have been doing. He has already visited Miss Brind's house and had a lovely time.
In Reception Phonics this week we have been hard working as usual. We have learnt the sounds, ear, air, er and ur and also looked at the tricky words:
are
they
you
all
Please practise these sounds and tricky words over half term and see if you can spot them in your child's reading book with your child.
In Year One Phonics we have started our work on Phase 5. We have been looking at words with double consonants at the start and at the end of the word.
The children are really becoming confident in using ll, ss, ff, and ck at the end of words. We have also re-visited some of the cvcc and ccvc words we looked at when we were reading during Phase 4.
In Numeracy this week we have been counting in 2's. The children are getting very good at identifying which numbers they need to use. We have also used number lines and hundred squares to cover or block the numbers to see the pattern.
Have a go on this website and use the hundred square to 'splat' the numbers in the 2 times table. If your child finds this easy then move onto counting in 5's. What patterns can you see?
Which pet do you think is the most popular in our homes?
Numeracy this week has also seen us learning about using a number line to work out a takeaway number sentence and jumping to the numbers that we need.
Here are a few of the other things that we have been learning this week?
Klaudia is working really hard on her formation of letters.
Rodrigo is enjoying using the bikes.
Marlon, Connor, Caleb and Cameron worked as a team to count in twos on a number square.
They used cubes to cover the numbers and see the pattern that was forming.
Megan has had a super attitude to her work this week.
In PE this week the children carried out the last of their apparatus work this half term and had a think about all the things that they had been asked to do and all the things that they had to explore.
Today is the last day of term, we hope that you have a wonderful half term holiday and look forward to seeing everybody on Monday 24th February.
Ladybirds
xx
Hundred Square