This week we have been continuing our topic about transport and our focus has been on boats and vehicles which travel on water. One of our challenges has been to try to construct a vessel which can carry a toy person and is able to float on water. The children have been choosing what they use to make their vessel with from our collection of reclaimed materials. Thank you for continuing to send small containers in for us to use.
In 'Power of Reading' this week we worked as classes to create a new version of a journey we had been on in a similar style to our book 'The Train Ride'. We used our 'Winter Welly Walk' to help us to make up a new story copying the rhythm from ' The Train Ride', 'What shall we see ? What shall we see ?'.... a big red robin with a bright red chest '. The children showed their brilliant imaginations when making their suggestions of what we might see in Mulbarton on our walk eg 'a rainbow and a unicorn' and a 'Ninja dragon'. The children have started to create their own stories during our story scribing sessions with lots of the children being very motivated to try to write the words themselves ! The children use 'robot talk' to stretch out the sounds in the words that they want to write and this helps them to identify which letters to write. Perhaps you could ask your child whether they have written their story yet as they will be displayed on your child's display board. The children always love choosing their classmates to be the characters in their story so that they can act it out in front of their class !
Please check your child's display board to see their reading 'next step'.
In Letters and Sounds this week we have been learning z, and also introducing the first of the 'digraphs' that we will be teaching qu and ch. We explain to the children that 'digraphs' have 2 letters and when they are together in words they only make 1 sound. These 'digraphs' need to be read as 1 sound when they are found in words. We have been practising blending sounds together to read words which the children can also practise at home when they have been given a word bag. The word bags are started by your child's teacher when your child has learnt the first 4 sets of sounds and been given the first 4 stickers on the back of their sound book. Please continue helping your child to blend sounds at home and to change their word bags as often as you like. This week the tricky words we have been learning are 'was' and 'my'. We will be doing individual reading again next week with the children but will no longer be sending home books for your child to spot their tricky words in. Please continue to help your child to learn their tricky words by remembering them by sight. The children will continue to receive a phonics book which they should be able to use their phonic knowledge to read using their blending skills.
In Maths this week we have been learning about the capacity of containers and having lots of fun measuring water, milk and rice! We were challenged to try to estimate how many children could have a cup of milk from various sized milk bottles and we enjoyed carefully pouring milk into cups and counting the total amount. Perhaps your child could continue this learning about the capacity of containers at home ? We would love to see any learning that your child is doing at home about measurement, so perhaps you could take a photo and add to tapestry so that your child can explain to their class what they have been learning about at home ?
Thank you very much for sending your replies into school about helping during our Chinese New Year challenge week.
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