Class 3 Bulletin

Messages emailed to Class 3 parents

5 years ago
Posted on 21st Jan 2020 by

Making a Dragon Machine

To link our Literacy and Topic (Castles) together we have been sharing stories with dragons in them. Week 1 and 2 we enjoyed the story The Paper Bag Princess and this week we have moved onto The Dragon Machine. The children had lots of fun this afternoon making dragon machines from junk modelling! We will now begin to write instructions on how to make these in our Literacy for the rest of the week.

 

5 years ago
Posted on 21st Jan 2020 by

Phonics this week

Common exception/high frequency words (these are tricky words that they cannot sound out to support spelling). Please take some time to review them with the children at home so they become familiar with reading and spelling these.

Year 1: ask, full, our

Year 2: year 1 + hour, move, sure

The sounds we will be focusing on/revisiting this week are Phase 5 au, oe, a-e, ey and e-e

Words that the children may want to practise spelling at home are:

au – Paul, haul, launch, August, author, automatic

oe – toe, Joe, woe, foe, tomatoes, goes, heroes

a-e – take, game, cake, make, date, sake, escape

ey – jockey, valley, trolley, donkey, turkey, monkey

e-e – Pete, compete, Steve, Eve, extreme, theme

The children will not be tested on these but additional practise at home will help them with phonics work in class.

Thank you for your continued support!

Mrs Edwards

5 years ago
Posted on 20th Jan 2020 by

Junk modelling materials

Thank you so much for the junk modelling donations!

Change of plan…the materials are needed for tomorrow’s lesson now instead of Wednesday, so I will no longer need donations after tomorrow morning.

I will put up photos of the children’s creations tomorrow evening/Wednesday afternoon.

Thank you again!

Mrs Edwards

5 years ago
Posted on 17th Jan 2020 by

Maths Homework

We have been learning about recognising coins and amounts of money this week and practising adding coins together to give a total. Homework is to continue practising this and has been handed out in their green homework files (please return these before or on Friday 24th January 2020).

Just a reminder that all home writing diaries are to be handed in on a Monday, please encourage your child to write a few lines in these to share on Monday as a class.

The children have been reading well and are inspired by the reading raffle to read their books at least twice through. These will not be changed every day during the week as we would like the children to build up their reading fluency and comprehension skills, however they can still place their reading diaries into the basket each morning to ensure their name is entered into the raffle.

Thank you for starting to donate junk modelling materials, any more donations next week will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you for your continued support!

Mrs Edwards

5 years ago
Posted on 16th Jan 2020 by

Junk modelling material

As part of our new story in Literacy (starting next week), I would like the children to have the opportunity to make something from junk modelling. Please could I ask for donations of boxes, cereal boxes, toilet rolls, kitchen rolls, plastic bottles, etc (no glass). We will need this for Wednesday so any donations beforehand would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you

Mrs Edwards

5 years ago
Posted on 13th Jan 2020 by

Phonics sounds covered this week

Common exception/high frequency words (these are tricky words that they cannot sound out to support spelling). Please take some time to review them with the children at home so they become familiar with reading and spelling these.

Year 1: my, come, one

Year 2: year 1 + class, plant, bath

The sounds we will be focusing on/revisiting this week are Phase 5 wh, ph and ew

Words that the children may want to practise spelling at home are:

wh = when, which, wheel, whisper, where, what (w)

wh = who, whole, whom (h)

ph = dolphin, alphabet, elephant, phonics, phantom, Philip (f)

ew = blew, chew, grew, drew, screw, crew

The children will not be tested on these but additional practise at home will help them with phonics work in class.

Thank you for your continued support!

Mrs Edwards

5 years ago
Posted on 08th Jan 2020 by

Thank you

Mrs Murphy would just like to send her thank yous to all of the children and parents who bought her Christmas presents at the end of last term. As Mrs Murphy does not work on a Friday, she received them yesterday!

So a great big ‘Thank you’ on behalf of Mrs Murphy!

5 years ago
Posted on 07th Jan 2020 by

Reading and Phonics WC 6.1.2020

Common exception/high frequency words (these are tricky words that they cannot sound out to support spelling). Please take some time to review them with the children at home so they become familiar with reading and spelling these.

Year 1: be, he, so

Year 2: year 1 + old, past, father

The sounds we will be focusing on/revisiting this week are Phase 5 ue and aw.

Words that the children may want to practise spelling at home are:

ue = clue, blue, issue, true, glue, Sue, tissue

aw = saw, law, crawl, paw, claw, lawn, raw, shawl, draw, jaw

We will also quickly revisit Phase 3 sounds sh, ch, th and ng

The children will not be tested on these but additional practise at home will help them with phonics work in class.

To encourage lots of reading at home, we would like the children to remember to change their book (place it in the blue basket in class for Mrs Murphy to change) when they come in in the mornings. Mrs Murphy will ensure the child has read the book at least two times, fluently and then give the child a raffle ticket. The raffle tickets will be put into a bag and drawn on a Friday. The more times they read the more chances they have of winning the raffle prize!

Thank you for your continued support!

Mrs Edwards

5 years ago
Posted on 20th Dec 2019 by

Merry Christmas!!

We have had a great last week in Squirrels Class – lots of Christmas crafts, games, parties and movies. Thank you for your party food and popcorn donations!

A huge thank you to everyone for all of the thoughtful gifts! Have a lovely, restful Christmas – see you all in the New Year!

Mrs Edwards

 

 

5 years ago
Posted on 12th Dec 2019 by

Trip – Ladybirds and Squirrels

Today has been very wet. The forecast tomorrow is dry but Hawkstone is likely to wet under foot. Children need wear sensible, comfortable shoes e.g.trainers, boots or wellies. They also need a warm, water proof coat as the Grotto is not heated.

Many thanks