Spring 2 Week 6
Week beginning 27th March 2017. Apologies for the late posting this week, I was unable to access the school website yesterday!!
WOW wall:
Please fill out a WOW card to share an important moment you have with your child at home which we can add to our WOW wall. We always enjoy hearing about milestones that Grosvenor class make at home!
HOMEWORK: (Sent out on Fridays and due back on Mondays)
Sent out Friday 24 March 2017
Mother’s Day
Draw a picture of your Mum and write some sentences about her.
THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
LITERACY:
This week we will be looking at the Easter story and how some people celebrate Easter. We will link this to other religoeus festivals that children in Grosvenor celebrate and how we don’t always celebrate the same things. Linked to this we will make Easter cards and do some Easter cooking.
PHONICS:
The children are working in phonic groups according to ability, there are presently 4 groups. We are revising phase 2/3 sounds, digraphs and trigraphs plus all tricky words. For the next 2 weeks I will complete phase 2/3 phonic assessments on the children with a view to possibly expanding to 5 phonic groups after Easter.
KEY WORD LISTS:
Your child will continue to bring home the animal word lists. These are the key words that occur most frequently in books your child will read in Reception and beyond. We have added additional lists as some children have finished the first set of words.
The word lists will encourage your child to learn to read these words and start to instantly recognise and sight read them in the books they read. When they are confident with reading the words bring them in to class so Mrs Keer or Miss Dale can check them. Well done to those chidren who are progressing through the lists really well.
MATHS:
We will continue to revise number recognition and counting skills and work on achieving number stars 1 and 2. This week we will also look at pattern and symmetry and continue working on subtraction.
READING
Please make sure reading records, reading books and library books are in book bags EVERY day. We read with the children on a weekly basis, not always the same day. We are finding several children do not have books in bags so are unable to change their books. As the children become more confident readers we will sometimes do a small guided reading session with groups of chidren who are at a similar level of reading.
Now that the children have learnt all sounds in phase 2 and 3 please try to read with them for 10 minutes every day so they can begin to apply the phonic knowledge they have learnt and ensure they become independent readers. Please take a minute to write a comment in the yellow contact book so we know how they are progressing at home.
ROLE PLAY
This week we will develop a Doctor’s Surgery in our role play area and look at the role of people who help us.
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
School closes on Friday 31st March for the Easter break and reopens on Tuesday 18th April.
We hope you have a relaxing break ready for the Summer term when we have lots to do to complete the Reception year.
On 18th April we will be having duck eggs delivered to Reception. Grosvenor Class will have them for the first week and Chelsea Class for the second week. We will watch the chicks hatch out and care for them. This will be a great learning opportunity for the children and a very enjoyable expreience.