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Author: Mrs Dowell
Elm Newsletter 9.6.23
Welcome back to everyone in Elm Class! I hope you all had a great half term break. All the children seem raring to go and are looking forward to all the activities planned.
You should all have had a letter detailing the trip to Fordhall Farm on Wednesday 21st June. In addition to the information in the letter, I have told the children that it would be best to wear jogging bottoms with their school uniform tops. We will be walking through fields of long grass and den building in the woodland area. It would be advisable for everyone to have their legs covered so no skirts, dresses or shorts please.
All children will be bringing home an invitation to our Bollywood Dance Workshop. You are all invited to join in on Thursday 6th July at 11am for a 11:15am start. It will last no more than one hour. The children and yourselves are welcome to wear Bollywood style dance clothes or just anything colourful and sparkly! There is absolutely no need to buy anything specific for the session. PE kit will be suitable too.
We are having a giant push on time tables at the moment, please help your child by practising little and often. Telling the time is another focus. Again, little and often is the key to remembering o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to. Some children will have learnt the time to five minute intervals too.
Enjoy the weekend, please keep reading!
Mrs Dowell and Mrs Armstrong
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Elm Newsletter 26.5.23
This half term has flown by. The children have really grown up since September, they’re nearly Year 3! We have all enjoyed learning about India and they have written some wonderful descriptions of the characters in The Jungle Book. They have imagined they are a tiger cub to write a description of their first walk in the jungle. I have been impressed by the adjectives they have used to paint a picture in the reader’s mind.
In maths, they have completed our unit of statistics. They have drawn tallies, tables, pictograms and block graphs. We have been spending a great deal of time recalling our 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Some children have moved on to 3s, 4s and 8s too! All children know how to use the free online game called ‘Hit the Button’ to improve the speed of recall. Next term we will recap some of the learning from earlier in the year and learn to apply their skills in new ways.
As mentioned earlier in the term, we have an educational visit on Wednesday 21st June to look forward to. We will be going to Fordhall Farm to learn where our food comes from. We have had some interesting discussions on this topic so far and this visit will help to clear up some misconceptions. In the afternoon, the children will enjoy a den building experience in the woods.
Following on with our India topic, we have a dance teacher visiting school to teach the children some Bollywood style dancing. On the morning of Thursday 6th July, parents/carers will be invited to join in with the second session. Look out for specific times nearer to the day. This is a great opportunity for you to learn alongside your child. Indian or Bollywood style costumes will be encouraged for the day!
Mrs Armstrong and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support, it means a great deal.
Enjoy the half term but please keep reading,
Mrs Dowell and Mrs Armstrong.
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Elm Newsletter 28.4.23
Another busy week comes to an end!
I’m really impressed by the improvements that the children are making in their reading. We are enjoying reading The Jungle Book together. They have started to bring some extracts home to share with you. We have been describing the animals, now we are using adjectives to describe the setting. We watched a video of a walk through the tropical forest and listened to the sounds we could hear. There was a mixture of opinions when they described how they thought they might feel if they were alone in the forest!
In maths, we have been solving problems using a mixture of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This will continue to be our focus over the coming weeks. Please continue to help your child with their 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
The children are beginning to recall facts about India such as the capital city, surrounding countries and India being part of Asia. Next week they will compare daily life in India with their own routine.
Please keep reading, every little helps!
Mrs Dowell and Mrs Armstrong
Golden Certificate Winners 21.4.23
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Elm Newsletter 21.4.23
Welcome back everyone! I hope you all had a great Easter break.
This term we will be learning all about India. The children have already found India in an atlas and learned that it is part of the continent of Asia. Later in the term we will be taking part in some Bollywood dancing. Parents and carers will be invited to join in with their child’s dance session- look out for dates!
We have started to read ‘The Jungle Book’ by Rudyard Kipling. The children are enjoying learning about the characters. They are identifying adjectives to describe and will be writing character descriptions for a display in school.
In maths, we have been measuring the mass of objects in grams and kilograms. The children have been using balance scales and reading scales with missing numbers. Please continue to help your child with learning their times tables fluently.
The children have shown what they already know about plants and have planted a sunflower seed. We will be watching these grow and recording their progress. We will also be investigating what plants need to be healthy. Can they survive without sun, water or soil?
A few reminders:
- This term, PE is just on a Tuesday.
- PE kit is a white t-shirt, plain dark shorts or joggers and a plain dark hoodie or school jumper.
- Book Bags need to be in school everyday.
- All pupils need a water bottle in school.
- All pupils with shoulder length hair or longer, need to have it tied back at all times.
This term will fly by as it is going to be a busy one! Thank you for all your help and support.
Mrs Dowell and Mrs Armstrong.
Elm Newsletter 31.3.23
This half term has gone by so fast! We have worked incredibly hard to improve our reading, writing and maths.
All the children are now writing more and most are punctuating sentences correctly. We have concentrated on rehearsing sentences before we write and thinking about how we can make our writing more interesting by adding adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions. Some pupils are also using possessive apostrophes. So, ‘The boy climbed the ladder’ becomes ‘ The little boy carefully climbed the wooden ladder because he needed to mend the alien’s spaceship.’ Next term we will continue to consolidate what we have learnt.
In maths, we have been learning to tell the time using an analogue clock, the children are finding it difficult. This could be because so many of the clocks we see now are digital! Please help your child by asking them to tell the time regularly. All children need to know o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. Some children will progress to five minute intervals: 10 minutes past 2 or 20 minutes to 5. We have learnt to count in fives around the clock and to use this to help with our 5 times table facts.
The children know why Easter is important to Christians and can answer questions about what happened. They have also learnt about money matters using resources from Santander which you may have seen on the T.V. with Ant and Dec. They can say where money comes from, different forms of money and what we can do to keep it safe. They had the common misconception that you just go to the bank to get money (if only), they hadn’t thought about who puts it in there. We had an interesting lesson on the difference between things we need and things we want!
Well done to everyone who entered the Easter Competition, it was great to have so many amazing entries.
Next term, PE will only be on Tuesdays.
Have a fantastic Easter break,
Mrs Dowell and Mrs Armstrong