Welcome to Chelsea Bridge Class.
Class teacher: Mrs Jeevahan & Miss Pillay
Teaching assistants: Mrs Begum, Miss Thompson, Mrs Edgeler, Mrs Rajani
Week beginning 20th March 2017
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Red Nose Day: Friday 24th March 2017.
For a donation of £1 children can:
- come to school dressed in something red eg. a red t shirt, jumper, leggings or trousers
- take part in our fun obstacle course especially set up for Reception classes.
Each class is hoping to collect a minimum of £30 for this Comic Relief charity event. Red Noses are available for purchase at the school office so please support us by buying your red nose from the school. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f7fa50″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]REQUEST: Please ensure all items of clothing are clearly labelled.
- Some labels are beginning to fade so please check and re-label if necessary.
- Also, we have had a few mix ups with jumpers and school T-shirts so please check that your child has brought home the correctly labelled items.
- If you notice the wrong item has been brought home please return the item and we will do our best to locate any missing items.[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#abe345″ ]HOMEWORK (sent out on Fridays and due back on Mondays)
Sent out Friday 17th March 2017
Rhyming words
Can you make a list of words that rhyme with each of these words?
- cat
- hop
- fan
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THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Traditional tales – The Enormous Turnip
The children will read and this funny story and sequence the events by creating a picture story map.
CAL- Communication and Language:
Word of the Week: This week’s WoW: big (enormous/gigantic/massive/huge)
eg We cannot pull out the gigantic turnip.
PHONICS:
We are currently revising Phase 3 digraphs/trigraphs – ch, sh, th, qu, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, air, ear, ure, er
Here is a video to practise oo, ar, or, ur at home
Here is a video to practise ur, ow, oi, ear at home
KEY WORD LISTS:
Thank you for dropping the key lists into the green homework box. Don’t forget to keep practising previous lists to check that your child can still recognise the words learnt earlier on.
READING AT HOME
Please continue to write a comment in your child’s yellow reading diary and let us know how they are getting on with their reading at home
MATHS:
The children are really enjoying the role play shop in the classroom and are exploring the different ways they can pay for items and using the language related to money such as ‘pounds’, ‘penny’, ‘pence’, ‘cash’, ‘pay by card’, ‘how much’, ‘buy on get one free’, ‘on sale’, ‘how much change’, etc. Please encourage your child to join in with the weekly shopping by getting them to write shopping lists or check prices when you are at the shops.
This week will also introduce the concept of capacity and the associated language such ‘full, empty, half full, etc.
PSED- Personal, Social, Emotional Development
This week we will discuss the people who are special to us and how we can show that we care about them.
UW – Understanding the World
We will continue to make observations of the cress seeds
Week beginning 13th March 2017
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#a3e848″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]RECYCLING REQUEST: Please send in any general recycling items for our workshop[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#abf0f0″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]REMINDER: Please take a minute to share a ‘wow’ moment that your child has experienced at home. We always love hearing how they are applying all they’ve learnt. Pick up a wow card from the class noticeboard outside the classroom.[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f8afad” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]UPCOMING EVENTS:
Red Nose Day: Friday 24th March 2017. For a donation of £1 children can come to school dressed in something red eg a red t shirt, jumper, leggings or trousers. Each class is hoping to collect a minimum of £30 for this Comic Relief charity event. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”” border_width=”5″ border_color=”#f1f850″ ]HOMEWORK: (Sent out on Fridays and due back on Mondays)
Sent out Friday 10th March 2017
Coins and notes
Talk to your child about the notes and coins in your purse/wallet
• Describe the size and shape of the coins/notes
• Name the coins/notes
• Trace around the coins and write the value of each coin eg. 1p/2p/5p/10p/20//50/£1/£2
• Draw a picture of the different notes [/dropshadowbox]
THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Traditional tales – Three Billy Goats Gruff.
The children really enjoyed role playing this story. They delighted in constructing pretend bridges across the classroom so they could act out their favourite scene from the story. They especially enjoyed composing imaginative sentences to describe the mean and nasty troll who lived under the bridge.
This week we will conclude our learning about this story by focusing on the where the story is set. We will paint pictures and write descriptive sentences about the place where the Billy Goats Gruff lived.
CAL- Communication and Language:
Word of the Week: Each week we will learn a new word. We will explore the meaning of the word and discuss other words that share the same meaning. To extend their vocabulary and develop their use of language, we will encourage the children to use these words when they speak and write.
This week’s WoW: tasty (delicious/scrumptious/yummy/juicy/mouth -watering)
eg The goats want to eat the juicy grass.
PHONICS:
We are currently revising Phase 3 digraphs/trigraphs – ch, sh, th, qu, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, air, ear, ure, er
Here is a video to practise reading words containing ch, sh, th, ng :
Here is a video to practise words containing ai, ee, igh, oa :
KEY WORD LISTS:
We are quite impressed with how well the children are progressing through their key word lists. Keep sending them in and keep up regular practise of the tricky words as these are words that can be easily forgotten. Regularly go back through previous lists to check that your child can still recognise the words learnt earlier on.
READING AT HOME
Please continue to write a comment in your child’s yellow reading diary and let us know how they are getting on with their reading at home
MATHS:
This week we will focus on the children’s use of everyday language and their ability to solve problems related to money as they explore the role play shop in the classroom.
UW – Understanding the World
This week we will introduce the concept of growth and changes over time by growing cress seeds and observing how they change over the course of the week. The children will be able to bring their cress plants home once fully grown.