Our Week to Show and Shine for You

It was wonderful to see so many of you at our 'Show & Shine' evening.

The children loved being able to show you a few of the different things that they do each day at school.

They all worked hard creating their nonfiction books on bugs last term, which they were proud to show you.

We hope that you enjoyed sharing these activities with your child.

I know that you must be as proud of your child's achievements as I am.  They are all doing a wonderful job!

Another fully packed week for us all in our second week back.

Procedural Writing

We continued to work on our skills to write a correctly sequenced set of instruction for a simple activity.

Making Toast  

Making toast was our first topic.

It was a fun and easy four step procedure for us to follow.

The children got involved spreading the butter,

and the jam.

Cutting the toast in half was a little more challenging, but they got there!

Eating the toast was decidedly the best part.

It was also nice social occasion.

Now knowing exactly how toast is made, we went in to draw the 4 steps for making toast.

Finally we wrote the instructions for our pictures.

All the children did a wonderful job of their procedural writing for making toast.

Making Popcorn

Making popcorn was another great success.

Finishing another great day of writing with a relaxing time with friends and eating popcorn was the best part!

Maths

We have continued our work with sharing and making groups.  

We also revisited some of our learning from last term such as ordering numbers from smallest to largest.

We worked completed addition activities where we used our 'counting on' skills.

We revisited our clocks game.

We played this memory game where we recalled our number partners for 10.

We did these puzzles of the 100 square so that we looked for the number patterns in the 100 square.

Finally we looked at making doubles.

We used this memory game to help us to remember the doubles.

Ask us some doubles to see how many we already know.

Push and Pull

As part of our Quest Unit we are studying a science topic called 'Push & Pull'.

We asked all the children to bring along a toy which could move.

The children demonstrated how their toy moved.

We discussed what their toy was doing, and how they had got it to move.

We had such fun with this activity.

We brainstormed many different words which would describe how a thing moves.

Then we grouped the toys according to how they moved.

Thanks to all the parents who helped their child find such great toys for our experiments.

We discovered how pushing the air through these whistles made them move too!  I'm sure that you all enjoyed these coming home.

Zara is 6

Zara was 6 years old this week.

She brought this very yummy Frozen cake to share with us all.

We really enjoyed the cake.

Thanks Zara.

Welcome Back to Term Four.

Term 4 is here already!  Where has this year gone!  It looks as if we are going to have just as busy and exciting a term as the last three, so hold onto your hats!

We started the term with our students of the week awards.  Kayden and Zara were given theirs at the end of last term.

Jaxon and Maddie were awarded theirs at assembly on the first day of term.

Aniston is our student of the week for this week.

Well-done to you all.

Katie's Birthday

It was Katie's birthday in week 1.

The children were very excited about giving her a small gift from us all.

'Sharing' and 'Groups Of'.

We started the term learning about sharing in Maths.  

We learnt the importance of sharing out our blocks evenly.

The children quickly became very skilled at activities such as sharing 12 lollies between 4 children, to discover that each child got 3 lollies each.

So we reversed it.  We put the Maths problem into a story such as,  'You have 6 friends, and they have 4 lollies each.  How many lollies do they have altogether?'

These activities are the early stages for learning division and multiplication.

The children all coped very well with all the activities.

We have once again been looking at the 100 square.  Looking for the patterns that we can find in them etc. 

The children used these patterns to help them to put together puzzles of the 100 square.  Ryan and Jasmine were amazing at how quickly they could complete all these puzzles.

Procedural Writing

For the first few weeks of this term we are learning about procedural writing where we write instructions telling someone how to do, or how to make something.

We have been learning how to do this by putting together sequence cards.

This set explains how to eat a pizza.

The children worked with a partner to put together many different sequenced instructions.

They have become very skilled with these activities.

Reading 

I had the pleasure of individually assessing all the children's reading in the first week.  I was thrilled to note that all the children have continued to make very pleasing reading progress.  

Small Groups

Some groups played the 'hole in the card' game.  This game helps the children to focus on the sounds in the beginning, middle or end of a word.

Ask your child about this game.

Vowels in the middle of a word are really tricky.

'Missing Middle Sounds' focuses on the middle sounds.

Bossy Fairy E

The children have been continuing their work with the Bossy Fairy E, and how this changes the sounds that the vowels make

Again the children showed great skill and understanding in these activities.

Missing Blends

These children did a wonderful job stretching out the words to hear and record the missing blends in their words.

Mrs Salathiel was there to guide them in this new activity.

We have also been working on blend sound boxes, where the children put letters together to match the picture. 

Mr Krake was there to lend a helping hand.

And of course reading!  

As you see we have certainly started this final term with a bang!