Class 2 have asked some amazing questions this week such as, ‘If God created the world, how did he create himself?’, ‘Are there Polar Bears in Wales?’ and ‘Did you know that local people in Antarctica love ice lollies?’ We have certainly had lots of smiles this week!
In English they have been collaborating so well with their perfect partners in Read Write Inc lessons. The focus has been on improving sentence structure and using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces more independently. Furthermore, they have been experimenting with using pre cursive letters which some children have started to include within their work during writing exercises. We had an independent write at the end of the week where the children decided they wanted to use their special writing powers by describing their favourite Superhero for 15 minutes.
The children’s reading to one another has been heart-warming to watch and listen to. They have had regular opportunities to read either to a teacher or partner. I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you so much for reading with your children at home. The children really appreciate it and they look forward to telling me about what they have read every day.
During maths we have been doing lots of practical lessons involving identifying and representing numbers. We have used counting objects and number lines to help us and have used new mathematical vocabulary along the way such as ‘greatest’ and ‘smallest when ordering and comparing our numbers.
Spellings-new spellings have gone out today ready for next Friday’s session. The children have done ever so well learning their previous ones and have achieved super results today. You can find out how your child got on in the back of their spelling book.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend together and see you on Monday.
Mr Mavin