Dear Parents /Carers,
This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We read the Chinese New Year story and learnt about the animals that raced to have the Zodiac New Year named after them. The children found out that they were all born in the year of the Rabbit or the Dragon. The children watched a clip of Chinese New Year celebrations and used piece of material to represent dragons and danced around children twirling ribbons in the hall. They had to work as a team to move the material. We have a Chinese restaurant in our class and on Wednesday we had a Chinese food tasting for snack. The children tried prawn crackers, Chinese rice and noodles. They were all very popular, especially the prawn crackers!
In Maths the children have been learning about pattern. We recapped that a repeating pattern is the same pattern over and over again. The children have been challenging themselves to describe patterns of shape, as well as number and have been creating their own patterns. At home you could create your own repeating patterns and talk about the pattern with people at home or visitors you may get over half term.
In Phonics the children have learnt the grapheme ‘ow’, ‘oi’, ‘ear’, ‘air’ and the tricky word ‘you’. The children have been using these graphemes to read and write words. The children all had these graphemes on flashcards to practise at home. It is important that over half term you continue to read regularly so that the children can practise using their knowledge of letters and sounds. You can also practice forming letters correctly.
The children made bird feeders this week, we hung them up and the children have been watching for different types of birds.
Have a lovely have term,
Miss Zimmerman, Mrs Bowden and Mrs Roberts.
