This week has gone so fast! There seemed to be a bit of a sickness bug going around at the beginning of the week but everyone is back up to strength now. We are really trying to encourage the children to have good hygiene habits. There are always tissues in the classroom for them to use to clean or blow their nose and we ask them to wash their hands afterwards. They are asked not to pick their nose.
I am sure that some of you will have heard about our sandwich making for Mr Grinling in ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. We have identified verbs in the text and used imperative verbs to write instructions.
The children are all working hard to build their ‘Power Pack’. This is their core strength which is needed for neat handwriting. Ask them to show you these poses: Bear, Meerkat, Penguin and Lizard. They have also learnt finger exercises to build the muscles needed to control a pencil.
We have found out that one of the best items to use as a whiteboard cleaner is an old sock as they can put it over their none writing hand. If anyone can spare any CLEAN old odd socks for this purpose, it would be greatly appreciated. Please send them in.
Thank you so much for promptly returning all the Little Wandle reading books. Some children are keeping them in their trays at school so that we can be confident that the books are in school everyday for reading sessions. All the adults in Chestnut Class are very impressed with the progress in the children’s reading. Please keep it up!
In maths we have completed our unit on Fractions. All children can find half of a number using equipment and most can find one quarter of a number by sharing into four equal parts. Next week we will be learning about position and direction.
The children may have talked about ‘Alien Words’. These are made up words made from phonemes that they have been taught. The pupils are told to always spot the digraphs first, then blend the word, rather than trying to read the word on sight.
For example: terp, slone, toaf, paith.
PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Have a fab weekend,
Mrs Dowell, Mrs Armstrong and Mrs Savory