This week we have had great fun with our book of the week ‘You Can’t Take an Elephant on Holiday’ by Patricia Cleveland-Peck. The children have come up with some fantastic ideas for what else you can’t do – take a pig to the park, a lion to the library or a giraffe to gymnastics! Here are some examples of their fantastic independent drawing and writing below.
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This week’s phonics has been a little tricky, reading words ending in ing, words ending in -ed (but making the ‘t’ sound e.g. bumped, cracked), words ending in -ed (like hunted) and then words ending in -est (freshest, softest) as well as learning the tricky words out and today. The children will continue to review and consolidate for the rest of term to ensure they are ready for starting the next stage of their phonics journey in Year 1 in September.
In Maths they have been exploring patterns and learning about a ‘rule’ being the repeated part. Over the last couple of days they have been making up their own patterns with various resources and trying to guess what their friend’s rule is. We have tied this in with revisiting odd and even numbers and doubles and seeing if they could identify the different number patterns presented to them.
We have also been talking about special people in our lives, why they are special to us and what nice things we can do for them to show them we appreciate them. I believe there will be a lot of people getting breakfast in bed and a hand with the cleaning this weekend!! 😉
Please make sure you look in your child’s bag, as they have made some ‘fab’ cards to give to their special person.
This week we have also been practicing for our Sports Day, which is on Tuesday morning at 9:30am on the school field. Fingers crossed the rain will stay away, so they can show you their fantastic skills – definitely some athletes in the making. Please ensure children come to school in their PE kits that day.
There will be NO PE on Friday (20th) next week. Children should come to school in full uniform that day.
PE will return to Fridays the following week (27th) for the rest of term.
Have a lovely weekend. Don’t forget to read, read, read!
Miss Jones & Mrs Kenny