This week we continued our adventures with Pingu in Drawing Club and ended the week with our writing assessment where the children drew and wrote about a short clip called Something Fishy, where a lady at the laundrette looked into the washing machine and it became an underwater scene with sock fish, hat turtles, a t-shirt squid and a jeans shark at the end! They really enjoyed watching the clip and did some great writing. You will be able to see their books on Monday and Tuesday during Parent’s evening and see the progress they have made in Drawing Club since September and with their writing assessments.
If you still need to make an appointment or need a reminder of your time please email me on beech@crowmoorschool.co.uk.
In maths we have been consolidating our knowledge of the composition of numbers to 8 and have been working on recognising different representations – e.g how it looks on a ten frame, on fingers, on a dice or in a dot formation for numbers 7 and 8 and of course the numerals. We have been working on writing them as well as reading them and checking that they are formed correctly.
Phonics is starting to get really tricky as we learnt four new phonemes this week but only three graphemes. The long ‘oo’ (like the moon) short ‘oo’ like a book, ‘ar’ as in star and ‘or’ like a horn. New sound cards have been added to their bags to practice recognising at home as well as our new tricky word ‘my’. Please remember to read at home as often as you can and ensure that it is recorded in their yellow reading records. Reading for just a few minutes a day can make such a difference. The winners of prizes from the lucky dip box for reading 5 times at home this week are: Agatha, Ayla, Billy, Harriet, Isla, Isla-Grace, Piper and Tommy. Well done to all of you! A couple of children just missed out this week and only needed one more read so keep it up!
Next week we are reading the traditional story of The Ugly Duckling for Drawing Club and will be measuring and comparing length, height and time in maths. In phonics we will learn the next four sounds and then we will only have three more left for level 3. We will then spend several weeks recapping and becoming more confident with reading and writing words (and sentences) containing those sounds.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Jones & Mrs Kenny