6th March

Don't forget to put the family fun day in your diary. It's a great day for all. ( see dates on the sidebar for details). See Ebrief for details.

Extra adults would enhance this experience HUGELY.
ON TUESDAY 10th at 12.30 we plan to put our SERVICE planning in to action " Helping out School Community".  Planting seeds to grow food for the school turtles. 
Children are in groups of 3 and have researched where and how they want these gardens to look. Locations are scattered therefore more adults would make it more flexible.
Can you or a family member spare an 1.5 hours to work with a group 3 children ? Let Mary Know ASAP 


Ask your child which SKILL BUSTER you can work on together...

Reading and Writing:

The class found these features in their books

Do you have Information Books on your bookshelf to read together  ?

The current reading and writing units are based around information books.

Explore the features of these books during home reading.

You might like to explore this website with your child.
http://www.dkfindout.com/uk/
















Ask your child what the differences are between a film and a book they have read.

Here are our thoughts on Fantastic Mr Fox which we read and then watched in class.

                                                                       Service:

Ask your child how they felt at Happy Lodge on Wednesday.
How did the residents feel?
Do they think that the feelings were similar in any way?

These photos were taken by Adhya and Laila:

Ask your child the connection between service and school turtles.
Ask your child why they are working in Service Teams.

Number:

Ask your child if they think addition and subtraction have some connection. ( They might want some paper to explain themselves in more than one way)

Our first thinking involved a lot of changing minds and convincing as well as role play and manipulative.

" Do you always count back / take away when solving a subtraction problem ?"
eg 103 - 99  =     " Would you start at 103 and count back 99 places?"

Some children asked me to share this so they could play the game with you...You might come up with your own numbers...

Yume did a great kids up front and some children want to make the "sumo stand" at home ... this photo is for them...