Week 8

It is hard to believe that in 3 weeks time most of us will have completed half a year at school! As I am in the midst of writing reports at the moment I am reflecting on the progress made this year and it is exciting to see how far each and every one of us has come. It is great to see the children really thinking about their learning goals and how motivated they are to reach them.

This week we are learning about taking ownership. We are thinking about what we need to do to get ourselves ready for school, how we can help our grown-ups at home especially in the mornings and how we can better look after our belongings and learning environment at school.

To help us build up our writing stamina and high frequency word banks we have started Word Power. We have 5 minutes to write as many words as we can before the timer goes off! This week's Word Power champ was Indy-Rose with 23 words - Well done!! Each week we will challenge ourselves to beat our previous score. This could be a fun thing to challenge your family to at home.

A good way to get the word count up is to think about rhyming words (if we can write 'at' we can write cat, hat, mat, sat...) and adding ing, s, or ed to words (look - looks - looking - looked)

Week 7

This week as part of our social coaching we are talking about the difference between reporting important issues and telling tales. We are learning to find ways to solve minor disputes and problems together.

In reading we are looking at speech marks, question marks and exclamation marks and practicing changing our voice when we read these to make it sound like someone is talking or asking a question.

In maths we are learning to solve addition problems by holding the largest number in our head and counting on.

In writing we are working on writing at least two sentences, making sure we have a capital letter at the start and a fullstop at the end of each.

Here are some photos of our bread making experience last week. We really enjoyed the bread and are writing stories about it this week.

Term 2 Week 6

I hope everyone had a great Queen's Birthday weekend.

Reading
It has been great to see the progress the children are making in reading. On Thursday and Friday last week I completed assessments of all the children in reading and have re-grouped everyone. Please remember to keep practicing those sight words and make sure that known words are read fluently when they appear in the reading books - No robot voices!

Maths
This week we are learning about addition and subtraction basic facts to and with 5
Try this song out at home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwkMHrhzeKc


Inquiry
We had lots of fun erupting our volcanoes on Friday using baking soda, vinegar and some red colouring for effect. We were hoping to be able to take our volcanoes home at the end of the day but made an interesting discovery when we picked them up off the plate - The baking soda and vinegar had begun eating into the clay and we had a big muddy mess!!