Welcome back everyone.
It was lovely to see all the children excited to see their friends and ready to learn again. We have dived straight back in!
CHANGES
There are some changes to the home learning. We now combine the spelling and handwriting together. We also introduce sentence dictations. This allows the children to listen, sound out and check over. In Maths we will be introducing fluency games to play at home. I’m just waiting for some training on this for myself and then I’ll introduce it to you and the children. This week we have a video explaining the bridging we are doing in class.
READING
Please make reading your priority each evening. Allow your child to build up their fluency and please do read to them - this is were new words and worlds open up!
HANDWRITING/SPELLING
Please watch the film here you will find CAPITAL LETTER PRACTICE and the dictated sentences.
SPELLING
Spelling rule this week changing single nouns to plurals - change the y into i and add es.
Play “Ping Pong” You say and show the word single. Then the child says the plural and writes the plural - this time dropping the y and adding ies.
cherry cherries
baby babies
family families
story stories
army armies
WHAT MY BOOK LOOKS LIKE
MATHS
Before half term, the children were learning how to bridge through ten when adding two numbers. We broke down this process over a number of lessons. We revised it immediately on our return. Some children are finding it tricky and it highlights our need to have automacitiy with all number bonds for numbers below ten. I have made a film especially for you so you can see how we are recording the bridging process. You will see how, over time, and with lots of practice this bridging becomes a mental strategy.
We have glued the maths sheets into their book - if the book was in school. If not it has been handed to the child and placed in their bag.
Having explained all this - we have a number of children in class who can already mentally bridge through ten. For those children it would be good for them to continue with their numbots.
Below is the button for our optional extra learning opportunities. These tasks link into the learning taking place over the next 6 weeks. We love to see your work and it is lovingly displayed in class.
Enjoy!