Week beginning 29th January 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#3ddb26″ ]THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
LITERACY: Creating stories
The children have thoroughly enjoyed engaging their imagination to create amazing stories about the naughty bus so this week we will continue with their interest and develop their ideas for creating other stories, focusing on the use of story language (eg Once upon a time, a long time ago, suddenly, etc) and elements of story structure (beginning, middle, end, characters, setting, plot, etc)
MATHS: Review counting and number recognition skills and find one more and one less than a given number.
PHONICS: The children are now learning Phonics in smaller groups. This is to ensure that they learn phonic skills at the pace at which they are making progress.
Group Phonics Focus:
Miss Pillay and Miss Oldman’s group: blending cvc words, and securing instant recognition and formation of all Phase 2 sounds
Miss Dale’s group: blending cvc words and securing instant recognition of Phase 3 digraphs within a word.
Miss Thompson’s group: Review Phase 3 long vowel sounds: /ai/, /ee/, /igh/, /oa/ and /oo/ and securing instant recognition of these sounds within a word. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#21efe2″ ]HOMEWORK:
This week’s homework: Friday, 22nd January 2018
Robbie the Rat comes home
What if Robbie the Rat (our class puppet) came home with you? What adventures would he have? What would he do? What would he say? Draw a picture about his adventure and ask your adult to help you write a few words or sentences about it.
Key word lists: Please leave word lists in the green box when your child is ready to have their word list checked. Please note that we will check each word list twice to ensure that your child can read these words skilfully before issuing the next list.
Group days for Show and Tell and changing books for home reading: Children will change their books and have an opportunity to present a show and tell on these days:
Mondays- Red group
Tuesdays- Blue group
Wednesdays- Green group
Thursdays- Orange Group
Fridays – Yellow group [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#fbfd37″ ]IMPORTANT DATES:
Thursday, 8th February 2018 – Chelsea Class visit to Croydon Fire Station
5th – 9th January 2018 – Online safety week
9th February 2018 – Last day of Spring 1 term
19th February 2018 – Children return to school for Spring 2 term
1st and 14th March 2018 – Chelsea Class Parents evening[/dropshadowbox]