Month: November 2015

Letters and Sounds

We have now completed all of the alphabet sounds a-z! We are now going back to where we started with ‘s’ and this time we are learning how to write the letters using our school cursive writing.

As a reminder, here is how we form our letters.

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Check out this website for more help with cursive letter formation and other useful ideas.

http://www.teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-letters-beginners.html

Kjartan Poskitt

On Friday we were really lucky to be treated to a maths show by the author and TV presenter Kjaratan Poskitt, who is best known for writing the Murderous Maths children’s series of books. He brought maths to life in hilarious and mind blowing ways and had us all in stitches.

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Here Kjartan cut an ordinary sized Christmas card in such a way that he could fit 8 children and Mr Ricketts inside. How did he do that?

Term 2

Welcome back! We hope that you all had a restful and fun break and are ready and raring to go with Term 2.  We have already been busy this week… Yesterday we had a very sparkly introduction to our new Talk for Writing story – How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers.

Over the next couple of weeks we will be learning to retell the story using actions.

Today we did Outdoor Learning in the rain. Unfortunately we did not have enough adult helpers to go to the woods, so we stayed on the school field, searched for three different leaves and began making stick stars.

Letters and sounds lessons have started again this week.  We have now learnt the following phonemes

s,a,t,p,i,n,m,d,g,o,c,k,ck,e,u,r,

Please keep practising each phoneme at home using the sound sheets we send home each week. Practise reading the words on the back of each sheet by sounding out each phoneme and blending the sounds together. Don’t worry if your child doesn’t manage to blend initially, often it takes practise, practise, practise.