We have had a great week this week continuing our underwater theme and reading the story ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’ by Sarah Roberts, who is a wildlife expert and animal behaviourist.
The story is all about ‘Stanley’ who is actually a stripy plastic carrier bag, and what happens to him (and some of the sea life) when he ends up in the ocean. We have been discussing what we can do to reduce the amount of plastic we use and how we can help keep our oceans clean and save the sea creatures. Here is some of their fantastic independent writing!
They have all been very enthusiastic about the topic of recycling, sorting some of our ‘rubbish’ by type and talking about the things we can and can’t recycle. They created some great turtles, dolphins and fish using recycled egg cartons.
They’ve also thoroughly enjoyed reusing their own ‘Stanley’ to make a kite (like the boy does at the end of the story, although we didn’t quite have enough wind to see if they would fly well before it started to rain! Don’t forget to look on Tapestry to catch up with what we have been up to.
In Maths they have been learning about sharing and grouping, making sure each group is equal. We will continue to work on grouping, odd and even numbers and will also revisit doubling next week.
In Phonics the children are continuing to work on reading longer words using the sounds they already know and they are trying hard to read with greater fluency. We hope you are enjoying hearing them read their Little Wandle books from their previous week’s group read. They have already read this book in school 3 times so were excited to take them home and show you how brilliantly they can read them. They do also have their phonically decodable Bug Club book to practice reading with too.
Please don’t forget to record in your child’s yellow reading record each time you read with them. If they read at home at least 4 times in a week, they can choose a special prize from the special Lucky Dip box. If you have any queries about your child’s reading books please let me know either in person or via the class email beech@crowmoorschool.co.uk
Have a lovely weekend – hopefully the sun will keep shining!
Miss Jones & Mrs Kenny