First of all, a huge thank you for your
generosity last week, for our school fundraising for Comic Relief. The children
should be really proud of themselves that their donations all contributed to
the £75 million that was raised on Friday night. Well done!
This week, we will be looking at improving our
writing of Information Texts through looking at Dinosaurs. The children have
been enthralled by the unexpected arrival of an egg on the playground, which
arrived for Foundation Stage last week. When it hatched into our sand tray,
they were so excited, that they asked if they could do some work on them too!
So, we are doing just that, and producing fact
files for the children in Foundation Stage to help them with their reading!
If they would like a sneak preview, and start to
gather some ideas for their writing, have a look at these sites to help:
This week in Maths we
will be working on problem solving. Now the children are familiar with
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division they will be using and
applying their knowledge to a range of word problems.
Year 1 children will
learn how to work out how to solve simple word problems using
addition and subtraction.
Year 2 children will
learn how to work out how to solve simple word problems using all 4 operations.
It is important that
your child is confidently able to know and use the language of maths. To enable
them to achieve this target, they need to understand all of the words which
mead adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.
Adding:- add, adding,
plus, more, increase, altogether, and, sum of.
Subtracting:- take
away, minus, leaves, subtract, less than, fewer, difference between, decrease.
Multiplying:- times, multiply, product, lots of, groups of,
double.
Dividing:- share,
divide, half,
Some
websites to help:-
In our topic work, the children will be learning about that
the clothes needed to keep baby warm or cool are different all over the world.
The children will study pictures of
natural fibres like cotton and wool being used around the world. The children
will select a piece of fabric &
suggest a suitable climate for baby to wear it.
Homework
Can we
remind you that Maths homework is given through the My Maths website, and
children are expected to complete it each week online. If you have any
difficulties in accessing this, please do let us know through your child's
diary.
On the
subject of diaries, thank you to the parents who have completed the new reading
sheet in the diaries. We have seen an increased number of comments written in
them this week from you, and the
children have been so keen to tell us, it has been a pleasure to see!
Easter Bonnets and Egg Rolling
Just a
quick reminder about our Easter Bonnet and Egg Rolling competitions next week.
I hope you are all getting creative at home? We can't wait to see them, but
just a word of warning - PLEASE make sure the eggs are hard-boiled, as 100
being rolled and subsequently broken, does tend to generate a certain aroma!!
Have a
good week.
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