What a fabulous day we have had! Everyone looked great in their spots. I also enjoyed seeing their odd socks throughout the week. We have been thinking really hard about what it takes to be a good friend. We now have instructions for ‘Friendship Soup’ on our classroom door.

This week we have started out new book ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. We have described the characters and found contractions in the text. They know that ‘don’t’ can be replaced by ‘do not’. The apostrophe is because letters have been omitted.

The children have enjoyed learning more about the properties of 2D shapes. They now know how to count the sides and vertices accurately. Next week we will be looking in more detail at 3D shapes. They will know about their faces, edges and vertices. We continue to have daily practice of the column method for addition and subtraction.

I am really pleased with the number of costumes that have been brought in so far. Every little contribution helps to make sure that the children all look wonderful in their performance of Santa’s Setbacks. They are working hard to learn the words to the songs and their lines. Next week we will be getting used to moving around on the stage and saying our lines at the right time. Please help your child to practice speaking clearly and loudly so that they can be heard across a room.

Have a fab weekend, keep reading!

Mrs Dowell and Mrs Armstrong

What a wonderful time we had at the disco! All the children looked fabulous and enjoyed dancing. Thank you for all your efforts with the costumes.

It was great to meet so many of you at Parent’s Evening, I hope you enjoyed looking through their books, the children are so proud of what they have achieved this half term. They have completed their Star Reader assessment and the majority have moved up with just a few staying the same.

Please keep reading over the holiday, it makes such a difference.

Bobby has the Golden Certificate this week for his huge improvement in handwriting.

Have a great half term, it’ll soon be Christmas!

Mrs Dowell and Mrs Armstrong

This week has gone so fast. The children have completed a writing assessment. They wrote a description of a magical wizard; they have really good imaginations. We have also been learning Kung Fu Punctuation moves to help them to remember capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks and question marks – ask them for a demonstration but stand well back! Next week we will continue to prepare for our information text about British nocturnal animals.

In maths, the children have been trying the tricky step of adding by making ten then adding on. For example: 8+5 can be solved by first adding 2 to make ten then adding the remaining 3. So, 8+5 is the same as answer as 10+3. They will learn to do this in their head, but it takes time if they are not fluent in recalling the number bonds of all numbers to ten. Please help them with this crucial knowledge as much as you can.

We continue to mix primary colours and white. This week we have learnt about warm and cool colours  looking at the work of Robert and Sonia Delaunay who were a married couple who liked to paint together.

I am especially pleased with how independent the children are becoming at preparing for an art lesson and their approach to tidying up after themselves. Our rule is that nobody takes off their apron until the whole class is tidy and all paint put away. Well done!

We could do with some more newspaper donations please, as we are running low. Thank you.

Next week is going to be busy. Parents’ Evenings on Monday and Tuesday. Then DISCO on Wednesday, I believe the children are to come to school dressed for the disco, I’m sure they will all enjoy giving the class a fashion show!

After half term, PE will only be on Tuesdays.

Have a fab weekend, there’s only a little bit of rain in the forecast so we might dodge it if we’re lucky!

Mrs Dowell and Mrs Armstrong