Class 1 Newsletter

11th March 2019

Dear Parents,

Class One Weekly Update – Week commencing 11th March

What a busy week last week! This week we are continuing our work on pirates and the children will be giving themselves a pirate name based on their favourite colour and animal! Friday is Red Nose Day and the children are welcome to dress up as their favourite famous person for the day.

Last week all children were sent home with an expression of interest letter about going to Ilfracombe aquarium on 28th March. Nursery parents need to accompany their child on the trip but if you are unable to attend then you could ask another parent to take your child on the trip. Unfortunately we, as a school, are not able to organise this for you but if you would be willing to take other children or you will have difficulty taking your own child please speak to us and we will try to point you in the right direction if we can.

 

Literacy

Last week nursery children enjoyed learning about the /s/ phoneme and many children brought in items to go on the /s/ table. Reception children spent the week practising writing the letter /s/ correctly. As a school all children are taught cursive writing so reception and nursery children are also being exposed to this and learning to write in a pre cursive style. This week the children will be learning about the /a/ phoneme so if you have any items at home that you are willing to bring in for our /a/ table that would be great.

Reception are continuing to learn about blending sounds together to help them read words and while writing they are focusing on thinking of a sentence, saying their sentence and then writing their sentence. All reception children are having a big push on using the correct letter formation over the coming weeks.

 

Mathematics

We are continuing our work on shapes this week but introducing 3D shapes and thinking about the properties of these shapes. The children will be making pirate telescopes and decorating them with shapes, building pirate ships using 3D shapes and painting pirate ships using 3D sponge shapes to name a few of the activities planned.

 

We would be very grateful for any cylinder shaped junk modelling, such as kitchen rolls, yoghurt pots etc.

Yours sincerely

The Class 1 team

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