Dear Parents/Carers,
This week we began answering the many questions Class R asked at the end of last term. ‘How do ovens cook?’ we tried to answer this week, we read the story of the gingerbread man. We talked about what we already know about ovens. We explored the dry ingredients in Gingerbread and looked at instructions of how to make them as a class. We read ‘How things work’ which gave us more information about how the oven cooks and we described how the dough and biscuit felt and smelt. The children all made a gingerbread man. They had to roll out the dough using a rolling pin and cut it out. The children then talked about what they did and the adult scribed or the children had a go at writing themselves what they did to create their gingerbread men.
In maths we have been using language to compare the weight of objects. We used language such as heavy, light, lighter than, heavier than, heaviest and lightest and weighed various different items with balance scales. You could explore weight further by finding different ways to weigh objects or finding objects of different weights and talking about them. The children could try playing this game at home. http://www.lcfclubs.com/lcf-maths/flash04/z04-games/z04-heavier-and-lighter.asp remind them that “before they click, click, click, they need to think, think, think and tell someone”. This is our moto which helps to keep the children safe while using the computer.
The children should now be secure with all the grapheme/phonemes they have brought home as well as the keywords I, no, go, to, the please ensure you continue to enable the children to read daily so they can apply their skills. Next week I will send home a letter inviting you to a phonics meeting as well as a maths meeting. Please look out for these in book bags, the information will also be in next week’s newsletter.
We are looking to add different material into our book corner, if you have any children’s magazines at home which your children no longer would like to read please bring them into school for other children to share.
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Zimmerman, Mrs Bowden and Mrs Roberts.
