Summer 2 Week 2
Week beginning 24th April 2017.
The duck eggs arrived on Tuesday and fortunately all six hatched out. The chidren have been facinated with watching them hatch out and very rapidly become fluffy little ducklings. They all had an opportunity to hold a duckling on Thursday and feel how soft and light they are. We look forward to following their progress this week when they move to Chelsea class.
A huge thank you to Vera’s Mum and Dad for looking after the ducklings for us over the weekend!
THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
LITERACY:
This week we will be writing a diary of our duck eggs and ducklings. The children will be using their phonetic knowledge learnt so far to write. We will also be encouraging them to be more independent, think of their own sentence and then write it.
PHONICS:
The Reception children have now been grouped following our assessments at the end of last term. They will be working in phase 2,3, and 4 according to individual needs.
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 with halving this week, playing some simple games involving the language of halving. We will then move on to doubling when ready. We will contiue revise 3D shapes, their names and properties.
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. We will begin to look at the use of punctuation and adding expression when 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.
Please note
As the weather is hopefully going to be getting warmer can you please ensure children have water bottles in school everyday. Thank you
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
Vision screening for Reception will take place on 26th April.
28th April whole school photo.
Monday 1st May is a bank holiday and the school will be closed.
School closes for half term on Friday 26th May and opens on Tuesday 6th June.