It was lovely to see all of the children in Class One back after a nice half-term break. This week the children spent time sharing their half-term news. They enjoyed telling each other about what they had done over the holidays and quite a few children had different things to show, such as leaflets of where they had been and souvenirs from places they had visited. Lots of children enjoyed playing with friends and of course, enjoyed Halloween festivities.

Show and Tell progressed on to children writing and drawing about their activities. They were encouraged to use phonic mats and their phonic knowledge to attempt to write familiar and unfamiliar words. Some children were set the task of checking their own work and trying to correct any sounds in their writing. They were also encouraged to think carefully about punctuation and how to set out their work.

Some children enjoyed using the laptop drawing programmes to paint pictures of what they did over half term and also lots of children liked making models of things they had done.

Next week, we will be looking at Homes and Houses on Monday and Tuesday. As we will be looking at different types of houses, it would be great if children could bring in a photo of their house for us to look at together. If you would like to do this (this is optional), then please provide a photo clearly labelled with your child’s name. If you would like the photo back straight away then just make a note of this and we will make a copy and send the original back to you. We will be looking at materials used to build houses too, using the story of The Three Little Pigs as a starting point. We hope to look at houses in the village of Bicton and look at the layout of our houses and what we have have in different rooms.

Letters and Sounds is progressing well and on Tuesday we covered the letter ‘Z’. The Year 1 children were finding out about 2 syllable words.

Thank you,

Mrs L Conde.