Thursday 26th February

Welcome back everyone! 

Here is our newsletter so you can see what we have planned for this half term. 

This week the children have enjoyed learning about plants and their parts and functions. We have learnt new vocabulary such as nectar, pollen, attract, pollinate, and reproduce. At home, your child may ask what part of the plant you are eating if it is a fruit or vegetable. Here is an example of what we have learnt.  

In Maths we have practised our numbers to 50 and place value. We have been drawing how many tens and ones are in numbers to 50, as well as answering word problems. E.g. The number I am thinking of has 3 tens and if I add one more it makes 36. 

Spellings

This week, your child will bring a look - say - cover - write - check sheet home. Please use it to help them write their spellings down. This sheet does not need to be returned to school.

The quiz and test on Purple Mash are still there for additional practise. I will check the children's spellings in class regularly and they will earn superstar tokens and stickers when they have written them in class. 

There are also games you can play at home to learn them. Here is a bank of ideas. 

The spellings work through our phonics scheme Floppy's Phonics helpful words (words that are hard to sound out, also known as sight words or tricky words), days of the week, numbers to 20, and then words that follow our phonics learning. This is why some weeks will seem easier than others. 

Please email me if you have any questions, or need any support. 

aoconnell@victoriaparkinf.co.uk 

Here are some photographs of what the children have been up to as well as their learning tasks. They really enjoy taking their own photographs of their models. 

Things to remember:

Monday - library day

Tuesday - reading books changed and homework collected in

Thursday - PE 

Friday - PE and new homework and spellings lists given out

World Book Day - Thursday 5th March

Thank you for your continued support. 

Mrs O'Connell x