What a wonderful week we had!

Literacy

We introduced our topic of dinosaurs and there was a lot of excitement. Our new learning intention is: Synthesising. It was a brand new word and we learnt that this is where we think about what we know before we read a text then what we know afterwards.

The books we have a read are fictions texts.

Maths 

We introduced our new topic of addition where we learnt new mathematical vocabulary and worked in our groups on different addition activities. During week 8 we will investigate subtraction and begin to see if we can make connections to addition.

Religion

We are now learning about Advent and that it is a special time of waiting. Week 8 we will begin participating in whole school advent liturgies via google meets.

Colour Run

On Friday we participated in the school Colour Run. It was so much fun and we were covered in all colours of the rainbow. We could run, walk or jog as we went through the inflatable arch, the teachers squirted us with coloured powder!

Show & Tell

It was lovely to hear the children share their favouite book. Many were able to tell us about their favourite part and why it is special.

Week 8 children are asked to bring in their Advent sheet that was sent home on Thursday. Show and Tell days will remain the same. Please refer to the tab Show & Tell to find your child’s scheduled day.

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
• If your child does not come home with their jumpers etc… we always endeavor to find them and give them to children to put into their bags. Please endure your child’s belongs are clearly named to ensure they receive them promptly
• Please check Seesaw regularly as this is where we post the children’s work and videos

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: recognise numbers, count forwards and backwards from any number given, know numbers before and after
• Letter sounds

Friendships

In junior years, children are still learning how to make friends and how to play appropriately inside and outside. Often they need reminders about appropriate words and behaviour.  Preps play with a variety of children throughout the day/week and this is great as it helps them build their friendship groups.

We often discuss about being Bucket Fillers and below is a link to the book Have You Filled a Bucket Today? 

Warmest regards,

Sian & Marcelle