Dear Parents/Carers,
Last week we looked at a picture of a water well. The children talked about what they thought it could be, some ideas were very creative “the chimney of an underground house”. We read a description of the frog from ‘The Princess and the Frog’ and the children had to predict what character it was a description of. We shared the story of ‘The Princess and the Frog’. The children thought about spells they could cast if they were the witch and used their imagination to create characters that might be at the bottom of the well. The children then described their characters and had a go at using their knowledge of letters and sounds to write the words.
In Maths last week the children talked about the capacity of containers, they used language such as bigger capacity, smaller capacity, largest capacity, smallest capacity to compare the different containers.
This week we have been sharing the story ‘Beauty and the Beast’ we talked about the different characters and have been practising describing them. We talked about using what we can see, hear, smell, touch and taste to describe. As a class the children described a castle in a wood the children then played a headband game and had to give descriptive clues to each other so they could guess the name of the characters they wore. One of our learning questions was ‘How are bricks made?” so we watched a clip about how they are made and discussed this as a class.
You now should all have the new home learning menu. Please encourage the children to have a go at some challenges and bring them in to share with us. The children have started learning vowel digraphs in school these are where two letters make one sound these include, ai, ee, oo, oa. The children have been practising reading them within words and are beginning to have a go at forming the letters.
This weekend maybe you could write your weekend news and bring it in on Monday to share with the class.
Have a great weekend,
Miss Zimmerman, Mrs Bowden and Mrs Roberts.
