Sunshine and walks: Week ending 26th March

Well, that was a sunny springtime week!

The children have spent a lot of time outdoors this week, including a walk on Tuesday afternoon. We were spotting signs of spring. The children were particularly excited to see the lambs in the field. We had to be very quiet to stop them running away (very good sneaking practice). 

We also crouched down, closed our eyes and stayed very quiet to feel spring on us. 

Aside from that, the children have started creating their own stories based on Jack and the Beanstalk, but in stead of Jack and a beanstalk, it is themselves and a giant sunflower. 

We have also been doing some maths facts work, handwriting, reading and super sentence writing. 

At home:

Please keep reading! 

Reception children please:

• keep practising your high frequency sight words
• practice your number bonds to 5 (orally, or by matching up number cards, or by making up number stories). If your child is very confident, please get them to draw part whole diagrams showing all of the bonds to 5. 

Year 1 children please:

• Practice your doubles and halves (children should know half is the inverse of double)
• If you are confident, start looking at doubles of 10s numbers eg double 10, 20, 30 as far as you like
• Beyond this, do some timed doubling challenges. Parents, write lots of numbers (any you know your child will find a suitable challenge) and time how long it takes them either to double, or to half them. 

Early next week, I will be emailing home our assessments of where your child is working in the core subjects, what we will be working on in school, and how you can help at home. 

Have a good weekend!

Miss Nash