Weekly News! 2.4.26
What a fantastic final week we have had! Take a look what we have been up to….
Easter Parade
Thank you for coming to see the children’s wonderful bonnet parade. All the bonnets were exceptional this year!
Phonics Meeting
Reminder: Friday 24th April there will be a phonics meeting instead of Read at 3pm.
Maths
This week in maths, we have been learning about time! We know that when the minute hand is on the 12, it is o’clock. When the minute hand is on the 6, it is half past. We used our clocks on the carpet to make various times which showed o’clock and half past. Then we went to our tables and practised reading clock faces and writing the times down with our partner. One of us wrote the answer whilst the other made the same time on our clock face. Then we switched over.
Fact of the week
Our fact of the week this week is:
6+0=6
0+6=6
6-0=6
Read, Write Inc.
This week in Read, Write Inc. we have been reviewing sounds we know and learning new sounds. We have continued to use our sounds to read and write words, phrases and sentences. In particular, we have been looking for special friends in our words, saying the sounds and reading the word. Any practise at home reading a word by finding the special friends, saying the sounds and reading the word would be greatly appreciated! We have also been working hard on our handwriting and writing sentences with capital letters and full stops.
Reading
Mondays – RWI books to be changed by an adult. Please could ALL reading wallets be put in the trays so that we can check who has earned a certificate.
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays – children can change their learning zone book (the one with the coloured sticker on). Please help them to have this book ready to change when they come in to the classroom in the mornings. Thank you!
Children will bring home two books in their reading folders, one being a RWI home book. Children are expected to try and read this three times during the week to ensure they are building on their reading fluency. The RWI home books will be changed, by an adult, every Monday.
The other book (with the coloured sticker) should be changed independently by the child themselves (on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)- first thing in the morning is a great time to do this! These books can be changed as regularly as needed.
Please listen to your child read as much as possible at home and record this in their reading records. Every week, one child from each class will receive a reading certificate in an assembly.
Children will also get a certificate for every 20 times they read so it is important that the reading record gets signed every time they read at home. BOTH RWI BOOKS AND THE LEARNING ZONE BOOKS CAN BE RECORDED IN THE READING RECORDS!
There will also be a sticker in your child’s reading record which will explain which skill they are working on with regards to their reading.
If you have any questions, please speak to your child’s class teacher.
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On Monday, we started learning about who Jesus was and the events in his life that shape the Christian faith. We used drama to understand the feelings of different people including his followers, his mother and his enemies at different events during Jesus’ life. The events were; Jesus’ birth; Jesus teaching his followers; Jesus performing miracles; Jesus gets arrested; Jesus’ crucifixion; Jesus appearing after death.
On Wednesday, we learnt that a parable is a story and that they teach us lessons. We were all able to describe the story, by using puppets to help us act it out. We know that Christians believe Jesus taught the parable of the lost son to show that God rejoices when people come back to him. Take a look at our parable telling!
