We will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday with lots of book-based fun activities including making our very own class book.
If your child has a favourite book or character – please let us know, and we can include it in our day’s activities.
Children will be coming home with a £1 gift voucher which can be exchanged for 1 of 8 books or used as part-payment against any book over £2.99.
In the interim, if you have not yet discovered http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk – it is a great site with lots of reading books for all abilities from non-readers to L3/4 readers. (Unfortunately, the site uses Flash, so is not iPad compatible at the moment).
Two days training and only three days back teaching and an Ofsted inspection, what an exhausting week!
In class 3 this week
Communication: We have been busy learning the c, and k sounds (as in cat and king), and accompanying Makaton signs. Would it help to have Makaton signs of the week on here?
Even if children can talk, signing has been proven to improve literacy and it’s great in a noisy place like a restaurant with the kids!
I know some parents are supporting signing at home and we really notice in class – thank you!
Some children are focusing on their listening and reading skills (comprehension).
Maths: In maths, we made a class bar chart of our heights – using the vocabulary tall and short. We continue to sing lots of number songs (5 little firemen and 10 in the bed today) and extend number experiences with quantities up to and over 100.
Science: We are reviewing our learning so far on life processes and children planted seeds – cress, peas and salad leaves which we are growing in window-greenhouse pockets :).
Have a very happy weekend – let’s hope we see some more sunshine – how wonderful to see crocuses peering through the grass already.
Try exploring some of these links for some online fun! Have a very happy half-term and see you on Wednesday 22nd February – Monday/Tuesday are INSET days.
Mrs Chapman
Literacy
Try viewing (and recognising/signing/sounding) the letters of the alphabet and the animals:
BBC schools KS1 site (some of these are for readers):
We have learnt the sounds/signs for s,a,t,i,p,n. Some of the children really enjoy ‘phonics with the funnies’, this link is for n, but you can search for the others:
Online stories (all abilities including readers/non-readers – choose by age):
Early counting fun: You need a small packet of little sweets or raisins etc. (that the child loves), a plate and a bowl. Place the sweets/fruit in a bowl, and demonstrate ‘put 1 on the plate’, say ‘yes’ and return to the bowl with the instruction ‘your turn’. When it is achieved, they get to ‘keep’ (probably eat :)) the sweet. Change the 1 to 2 and 3 and mix it up.
Adding: With two plates, place a sweet on one plate and another on the other plate. Use the language and (for add) and altogether – to encourage counting altogether, remembering to count left-to-right. So, ‘how many altogether’ – and demonstrate pointing and counting each sweet, followed by ‘yes’ and again get to keep when they get it right. Change the quantities as you get better, so 2+3 etc.
Topic – people who help us
5 little firemen song:
lots of fire/hazard interactive games on the Cheshire fire website: (choose games)
We had a very exciting day today. A visit from Nigel, our local firefighter schools coordinator, who spent an engaging morning talking to pupils in class 2 and 3 about fire safety. We learnt the matches poem:
Matches matches do not touch
They will hurt you very much.
He showed us a video of how quickly a bedroom could catch fire and explained what we should do to prevent a fire:
making sure all electrical appliances are switched off
never leaving candles unattended
making sure we have smoke alarms in our houses
shutting doors inside our homes to prevent fires spreading so quickly
he also explained what to do if we saw a fire – shout ‘Fire’ and get out as well as ring 999.
Then, the fire engine came to visit. Children got into the engine and sat where the firefighters sit, and the hose was connected to the delight of everyone – and the field got a good soaking!
Friday 10th February is the day we break up for half-term. Already? Yes, I know!
It is also the Reynalds Cross Valentine’s Disco – 6pm-8pm. You should have had a letter about tickets – if not, send me a message in the home/school book or on here and we’ll sort that out.
Please do come along – there will be many of us here and it will be a great time to say an informal hello as well as good fun!
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