Week beginning 3rd July 2017

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Monday 3rd July – visit to Croydon Central Library

Friday 14th July – Reception Sports Day (at school)

Monday 17th July- trip to Lloyd Park [/dropshadowbox]

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30^th June 2017

People who help us

Can you find or draw pictures of people who help us?

• example: police, fire fighters, nurses, etc.

Can you write a few sentences to say how they help us?

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TOPIC: Summer’s here!

This week’s themes: The weather

Book Focus: a range of non-fiction books about the weather in different seasons

CROSS CURRICULAR LEARNING:

• We will talk about different types of weather, exploring related vocabulary and developing their understanding of the four seasons.

• The children will continue to monitor the growth of their plants, taking responsibility for caring for them and making observations of any changes.

• The children have really enjoyed discussing the changes in themselves as they have grown up. Thank you for sending in their baby photos. Please take some time to read our class display about this, in the hallway.

• In Maths we will review counting in 2’s and explore practical activities which require this skill eg. counting 2p coins, pairs of items such as shoes, socks, etc [/dropshadowbox]

Week beginning 26th June 2017

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Tuesday 27th June – Whole school photograph

Monday 3rd July – visit to Croydon Central Library

Friday 14th July – Reception Sports Day (at school)

Monday 17th July- trip to Lloyd Park (letters to be sent out in due course) [/dropshadowbox]

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• Thank you for sending in the requested baby photos. Lovely to see how they have grown.

• If you have not sent in a baby photo yet, please send them in as soon as you can. [/dropshadowbox]

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Sent out Friday 23rd June 2017

Order by height

Draw pictures of people in your family – can you draw them in order of height from the tallest to the shortest? [/dropshadowbox]

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TOPIC: Summer’s here!

This week’s themes: Growing

Book Focus: a range of non-fiction books about plant, animal and human growth

CROSS CURRICULAR LEARNING:

This week we will continue to explore cross curricular learning using our book focus as stimulus for discussion:

• We will talk about what we can do when we grow up, discussing different jobs that people do and how these jobs help other people.

• The children have each grown a bean seed and will continue to care for their seed as it grows into a plant, making observations of any changes as it grows

• Maths learning will focus on reviewing children’s understanding of addition and subtraction, exploring the concepts of ‘more’ and ‘less’

• In preparation for our various trips this term we will talk about road safety as well as the importance of caring for books. [/dropshadowbox]

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Now that the children can read, we are teaching them strategies for reading longer words. One of these strategies is known as chunking. Please use the following video to practise at home:[/dropshadowbox]

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PHONICS:

The children continue to work in groups for Phonics securing their recognition of Phase 3 sounds and skills for blending decodable words accurately. Phonics lessons also focus on teaching children the skills for reading and writing simple sentences. Some of the groups have started learning the Phase 4 skills for reading words containing 4 or more sounds.

READING AT SCHOOL:

During guided group reading sessions the children are working on key skills for reading such as finger pointing under each word to keep track of words; using picture clues and sound blending to decode unfamiliar words. We are also assessing children’s understanding of what they have read. We will also encourage children to use their ‘storyteller voice’ when they read, using expression and taking notice of basic punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.

READING AT HOME

Please continue to write a comment in your child’s yellow reading diary and let us know how they are getting on with their reading at home. Please ensure that books are in book bags on the days listed below.

KEY WORD LISTS and CHANGING READING BOOKS:

We change books and check key words on these days:

Monday – Red group

Tuesday – Orange group

Wednesday – Yellow group

Thursday – Green group

Friday – Blue group [/dropshadowbox]