Welcome back everyone, there have been a few tired children (and staff) in school this week! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.
Our new topic web is available on Elm Class Information page.
This term we need to focus our attention on the children’s reading. We read each day in school but this cannot take the place of daily 1:1 reading with an adult at home. This time is so valuable; it builds good reading habits and a life long enjoyment of books. I have stressed to the children that they are not expected to read a whole book every night, one or two pages is enough. Little and often is much more effective than reading a whole book once a week! Please help your child with this as much as you can and record this in their yellow Reading Record.
The children know what to do when they get stuck – use their phonic knowledge. If they have to stop to sound out a word then they need to go back and re-read the sentence again and again until they can read it without stopping. They need to be fluent readers.
So far we have enjoyed sharing the new topic books about the Polar Regions and learning new vocabulary: tundra and climate. We have also been reading about Ernest Shackleton and his Antarctic expedition on a ship called ‘Endurance’. The children were fascinated watching the digitally remastered footage from the actual expedition. Although, they couldn’t understand why there was no sound with the video! They were relieved to find out that everyone was rescued and got home safely.
We have started to count money in maths. If you have any odd coins available, please support your child in counting the value of them. Ask them to find a specific amount using the most efficient way. Could they use a 20p coin instead of two 10p coins?
This term, PE will remain on Tuesday: white t-shirt, plain dark hoodie or school jumper/cardigan, plain dark jogging bottoms or leggings and trainers or pumps.
The children need to be a full school uniform on the other days.
Have a great weekend, don’t forget to read!
Thank you,
Mrs Dowell and Mrs Armstrong