weekly news 4th July

This week we have been learning the story of ‘The Frog Prince’. We took turns to read sentences from the story with our working partner and we put pictures from the story in the correct order.

We have been doing a final assessment of the children’s tricky word and sound knowledge and checking which word bag they are working on. There are 36 word bags in total and these will be continued in Year 1. At the end of next week we will start to collect all the school books and library books out of your child’s book bag so it would really help if you could have a hunt around at home to find any so that we can sort them ready for the end of term. We will also be collecting in your child’s tricky word tag and sending home a copy of their latest assessment so that you can see which sounds and tricky words your child can confidently read and which ones they still need to learn. A copy of this assessment will be passed onto your child’s next teacher so that they can continue with this learning.

In maths we have been thinking about the properties of numbers and finding out whether a certain number is odd or even, finding it on a number line and on a hundred square, showing it in lots of different ways using numicon and practising writing it. We have also been doing some problem-solving involving the 7 dwarfs from the story of ‘Snow white and the 7 dwarfs’. We used our understanding of various numbers to share diamonds and precious gems between the 7 dwarfs, making sure that they all had the same number !

As part of our transition into Year 1, we started a ‘story swap’ in which the teachers all go into a different class to read a story. The teachers who are going to teach in Year 1 came and read a story to our classes. On Friday you will find out whether your child is going to be in Caterpillars or Ladybirds. Next week is transition week and your child will spend Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in their new class with their new teacher learning all about the exciting things they will be doing in Year 1. The reception staff will be out on home visits during this time.

Please keep a look out for a message about downloading your child’s tapestry journal. You will be able to save, or print out all the wonderful memories of your child’s learning journey so far. Many of the children have had a tapestry account since they were very young in nursery so they full of fantastic snapshots of how your child has developed so far.