Good afternoon families,

Literacy

This week we continued our theme of Fairy Tales and began reading The Jolly Postman or Other People’s Letters. The children were making connections to other texts they had read. It was wonderful to see the excitement as we read the letters from The Jolly Postman. If you are unfamiliar with the book, it’s interactive and each character has an envelope with a letter or postcard to read.

We then wrote a postcard from the perspective of a fairy tale character.

Religion

We have continued to look at God’s creation and the beauty around us. As it was Remembrance Day on Wednesday 11th, we wrote a special prayer to a soldier. The Prep RB video is on Seesaw to view and the prayer that the Prep teachers created for the whole teaching staff  is on the central Prep blog.

Maths

We continued investigating fractions and looking at half and quarters. There was a lot of paper folding (modelling) and drawing (representing). We also went back and looked at how we pose a question to collect data.

Week 7 we will begin a new topic of addition. We will be using lots of hands on materials to help understand and recognise how we add numbers together.

Show & Tell

It has been lovely hearing the children share their special talents this week. We’ve had dancers, magicians, artists, gymnasts and more!

Week 7 is “My favourite book .” Please ensure your child brings a long the favourite book and can explain why they love it. It might have been a special gift, they might like the characters, makes them laugh… etc.

If you can practise with your child to help them gain more confidence.

Thing to note:

• Home readers: Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The home readers are meant to be easy for your child to read. They should read a page more than once which helps with fluency and comprehension. Ensuring they read all the words, use the pictures and initial sounds to help work out unknown words.
• Diaries: Children are to hand diaries in on a Friday. Please encourage your child to fill in each day independently. This will help them to think about what their favourite part was, what they understood and wonderings they may have
• School photos are Tuesday 17th November. Children are required to wear their summer uniform.

Work at Home

Some families are wanting to do additional work at home. Some extra activities you can do are but not limited to:

• continue working on High Frequency Words. Children need to know their High Frequency Words out of order. They can write them, write them in a sentence, orally say them in a sentence, recognise them with in texts
• numbers: recoginse numbers, count forwards and backwards from any number given, know numbers before and after.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. It’s quite windy today, so stay safe.

Warmest regards,

Sian & Marcelle