14th May 2018

This week in English we have been reading The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr. We have been recapping on how to write a list using bullet points, learning how to write a list using a comma within a sentence and writing our own stories about an animal that came to tea. As part of your home learning you could encourage your child to write a list of...

• favourite toys
• food
• phonic sounds
• tricky words
• books they enjoy

In maths we have been recapping fractions. We know that halving is sharing into two equal parts and quartering is sharing into four equal parts. We have been practicing sharing amounts of objects- for example 1/2 of 4 = 2. 1/4 of 8 -+2. As part of your home learning you could encourage your children to share their sweets, toys, or if they are lucky enough to have pocket money ask them things such as "If you spent half of your 10p- how much would you have left?".

After half term the children will be completing a quick phonics check. Over the next few weeks we will be sending home some real and alien words. We encourage the children to sound the words out and then blend them back together, for example, glump > g-l-u-m-p; fair > f-air; rescue > r-e-s-c-ue. They do not need to remember the words but be able to identify the sounds and blend them back together.

We have moved our Summer Reading Event to Thursday 7th June at 9am. This is our final year one event for the year.

With the ever changing weather please remember to send children in suitable clothing! In PE we are hoping to be outside as much as possible so please send in suitable outdoor shoes.

We also ask that you continue to read with your children at least five times a week. This can be a mixture of phonics, tricky words, reading book, magazines, library books, big talk. It does not have to be the school reading book but reading these regularly helps the children to become more confident and fluent readers.