Firstly I would like
to say how excited and pleased I am to be teaching your children. As you have
probably realised Mrs Thorpe and I have been working very hard to ensure a
smooth transition, so the children’s learning and routine will not be
disturbed. I am looking forward to getting to know you all and to support your
children’s progress.
This week the
children will continue with their space topic in Literacy. We will be
concentrating on food and how to cook in space. They will add this to their
fact files. We have turned the quiet room into the International Space Station
and will reveal this to the children this week! If you have anything related to
space at home that you would be happy to donate to this role play area we would
be very grateful. Thank you to those who have already brought in their kitchen
towel tubes (not toilet roll) but we still need more, so please keep bringing
them in.
In Maths we are
moving away from time and concentrating on number for a week. The children’s
main learning objectives are to start counting in 2,5,10s and to plot numbers
on a number line. As the week progresses, feel free to draw number lines and
encourage your children to plot number on them or to simply ask your children
to sort objects into 2,5,10s! If you would like any further ideas I am happy to
help.
Finally, a
congratulations is in order as all your children did very well in their
spellings on Friday (or their phonics), so we are hoping for a similar result
this week. Please make sure you keep your children practising and encourage
them to write sentences using their spellings to consolidate their learning –
it really does help!
Additionally,
congratulations to Isla, Ella, Oscar, Sam, Stephen, Indi-Rose, Samantha and
Kurtis who were praised on Friday in Praise Assembly for their neat
handwriting! Well done!
Miss Kinkead
