Welcome to a brand new term and a new week.  We are very excited and eager to start all the wonderful learning with the children.

We encourage you to keep reading with your child at home as the children move into a new phase of learning the term.

English and Phonics

This week the children are learning and writing the letter sound w.

The children are also learning about sentences and using their letter sound knowledge to help them spell CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words. The children tried their skills at spelling cat and dog with a little nudge from the teacher.

Shared Reading

Here are a selection of books we have shared with the children this week.  You may have them at home or you can watch the stories below.

The Wonky Donkey went nicely with our letter w sound today!

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus had the children thinking about how they can add words to their books in their Book Making lessons. We discussed speech bubbles and big and bold writing.

Meg’s Car highlighted the use of speech bubbles and big and bold writing.

Home Reading

Congratulations to Jordan and Makai on 50 nights of reading. Great work, keep it up!

Religion

The children shared what they knew about ‘Church’ and described what it looks like. They then drew a picture of a building church.

Gabriella : is about God

Cedric: it is about getting blessed by Jesus

Manny: Church is a big tower

Lovenne: Church is all about learning about God

Jok: seeing God

Reyansh: about Jesus

Yom: where people talk about Jesus

Aiden: seeing God

Xander: God helps friends

Riley: Jesus is on a cross

Cyrus: Jesus helps everybody

Gabriella: there are lots of people there and it’s a good place to learn

Aiden: I saw Jesus, there were statues

Eliza: God lives on the cross

Jok: saw Jesus

Reyansh: I saw a statue of Jesus

Manny: 100 windows on the church tower

Charlotte: I’ve seen a statue and a window with a tower of a church

Maths 

The students have began exploring and investigating 2D shapes. They have been working on naming 2D shapes, drawing them and naming some features such as the corners and sides. They are creating a shapes book to share their understandings of 2D shapes.

Counting and number lines.  The children used their number lines to keep track of the numbers in a counting song.

Book Making

The children looked for how authors add words to their books and worked with a partner today to find speech bubbles, thinking bubbles and big and bold writing.

Friday Book Making

The children did an awesome job at adding words today.

English

Writing rhyming words and cvc words.