Robins Week beg. 19th September

Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 5:21pm

Thank you to everyone who made it to our Meet The Teacher meeting this week. It was lovely to see so many of you and to meet many of you for the first time. I have uploaded the PowerPoint that I shared onto our class blog for your reference. 

This week the children have been focusing on writing a paragraph about seals and next week we will be writing pieces of dialogue using speech marks based around the characters in our book the Seal Surfer by Michael Formen. We will also continue with our Reading lessons around The Sea Book by Charlotte Milner focusing on the features of a non-fiction book. Your child should now be bringing home their own reading book so could you please spend 10 - 15 mins reading each night with them and chatting about the book. What do they like about the book? Who are the main characters? What has happened so far in the story? What do they think will happen next. Hopefully we will have our new Reading Diaries next week so you can sign when your child has read at home.  

This week in Maths, we will continue to revise x2, x5 and x10. The children have taken home a x2 game which I would like them to play at home as part of their Maths homework. They can also practise their cutting skills! I have given them some ideas of the sort of games that they can play e.g. simply match the multiple of 2 (2, 4, 6 etc.) with the number sentence (4 X 2), or they could colour match the pairs, turn them upside down, play a game of snap etc. Just have fun with it.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

This is also the on-line game that we have been playing in school this week. Just click on Times Tables and choose x2 to begin with and then advance to other multiplication facts when you feel your child is ready.  Using our Power Maths books we will continue to work on place value for numbers to 1000. We will partition numbers into Hundreds, Tens and Ones practically with resources and pictorially. 

I know you are all well aware as your children have been looking so smart for PE but just a reminder that our PE days will remain as Monday and Wednesday for this term. 

We are so excited to begin our Topic work by finding out about the Stone Age. If your child attends your local library encourage them to look out for books about the Stone Age which they could enjoy reading at home. This week they have been coming up with questions that they would like to find out about the Stone Age. Next week we will be looking at timelines and finding out about where Stone Age people lived. 

In RE we are focusing on Christianity this term and in particular looking at symbols that are used to represent God. 

In Computing we are learning to take photos and edit them using various apps on the IPAD. We are currently using the app Prisma which your child might like to experiment with at home. 

In Science we have begun our Topic about Animals including Humans by finding out what we know already. 

Please feel free to get in touch if there is anything we can help you with,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs O'Marah & Mrs Taylor

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