Having done some lovely creative work for Goldilocks and the Three Bears which the children really enjoyed, we are now going to spend the next two weeks looking at the plot and characters for the Three Little Pigs. At the end of this unit the children will be having a go at writing the story independently once they have all of the tools that they need to do this.
The week’s Maths revisits finding pairs of numbers which have a total of ten, finding the difference between two numbers and doubling. There are lots of opportunities for you to help your child with the number pairs and doubles by asking them to tell you what these are. This can be done in the morning, at bedtime, in the bath, in the car, while you are washing up – so you don’t actually need to stop what you are doing to talk with and listen to your child.
We have also been encouraging the children to reflect on being true to themselves and showing honesty in their appraisals of their own abilities. They are really beginning to see what they can do well and where they need to improve which is a vey important tool for learning.
Please make sure that you send P.E. kit into school on Mondays so that the children are prepared for their lessons. We will send it home on Thursdays. It really unsettles children when they do not have the necessary equipment in school and takes up good learning time while an adult goes in search of spare equipment for them.
Thank you for helping your children with their spelling book activities, they have all made a good job of the handwriting and had remembered the words when we checked them informally on Wednesday morning.
