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LITERACY: Creating stories
The children have thoroughly enjoyed engaging their imagination to create amazing stories about the naughty bus so this week we will continue with their interest and develop their ideas for creating other stories, focusing on the use of story language (eg Once upon a time, a long time ago, suddenly, etc) and elements of story structure (beginning, middle, end, characters, setting, plot, etc)
MATHS: Review counting and number recognition skills and find one more and one less than a given number.
PHONICS: The children are now learning Phonics in smaller groups. This is to ensure that they learn phonic skills at the pace at which they are making progress.
Group Phonics Focus:
Miss Pillay and Miss Oldman’s group: blending cvc words, and securing instant recognition and formation of all Phase 2 sounds
Miss Dale’s group: blending cvc words and securing instant recognition of Phase 3 digraphs within a word.
Miss Thompson’s group: Review Phase 3 long vowel sounds: /ai/, /ee/, /igh/, /oa/ and /oo/ and securing instant recognition of these sounds within a word. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#21efe2″ ]HOMEWORK:
This week’s homework: Friday, 22nd January 2018
Robbie the Rat comes home
What if Robbie the Rat (our class puppet) came home with you? What adventures would he have? What would he do? What would he say? Draw a picture about his adventure and ask your adult to help you write a few words or sentences about it.
Key word lists: Please leave word lists in the green box when your child is ready to have their word list checked. Please note that we will check each word list twice to ensure that your child can read these words skilfully before issuing the next list.
Group days for Show and Tell and changing books for home reading: Children will change their books and have an opportunity to present a show and tell on these days:
Mondays- Red group
Tuesdays- Blue group
Wednesdays- Green group
Thursdays- Orange Group
Fridays – Yellow group [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#fbfd37″ ]IMPORTANT DATES:
Thursday, 8th February 2018 – Chelsea Class visit to Croydon Fire Station
5th – 9th January 2018 – Online safety week
9th February 2018 – Last day of Spring 1 term
19th February 2018 – Children return to school for Spring 2 term
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Keeping Ourselves Safe Week.
During this safety themed week we will be discussing the ways we can keep ourselves safe in different situations such as road safety, safety around strangers and safety in the home and at school. The children’s learning this week will be centred on these aspects of safety.
PHONICS: The children are now learning Phonics in smaller groups. This is to ensure that they learn phonic skills at the pace at which they are making progress.
Phonics Group Focus:
Miss Pillay and Miss Oldman’s group: blending cvc words, and securing instant recognition and formation of all Phase 2 sounds
Miss Dale’s group: blending cvc words and securing instant recognition of Phase 3 digraphs within a word.
Miss Thompson’s group: Learning Phase 3 long vowel sounds: /ai/, /ee/, /igh/, /oa/ and /oo/ and securing instant recognition of these sounds within a word
Here are a few useful learning videos to help your child to practise their reading and spelling of tricky words as well as counting forwards and back within 10:
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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#0c0ddb” ]HOMEWORK
Friday, 19th January 2018
At home with the Naughty Bus
What if the Naughty Bus came home with you? What might it do? Can you draw a picture about what you think the Naughty Bus might do in your home? What mischief might it get up to? Ask you adult to help you label your picture or write a sentence about it
(Parents please refer to an alternate version of story of the Naughty Bus -see video below)
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