This week the children have been enthusiastically practicing their Christmas production. The classroom has been filled with singing voices, children practicing their dance moves and rehearsing their lines!
We have learned how to recite our nativity story during our morning Literacy sessions and added actions to help us remember the sequence of the story. We then choreographed dances to match the songs we are using in our story and the children have enjoyed practicing every minute of the day, whether in the garden or in the class.
During our phonics sessions, we have reviewed all the diagraphs and the trigraph we have learned so far this year. We are incredibly proud of how far the children have come and all the hard work they put in daily; they have made great progress in their reading and writing!
Your child will soon receive a summary of the sounds they can confidently identify as well as the ones they need a little more practice with.
In maths the children have continued with patterns, ensuring that they are confident in identifying the repeated section. We have also looked at 2D shapes and using mathematical language to describe each.
Finally, the children had a great time exploring with a variety of artistic effects to create a surprise or two for parents later in the term. They cannot wait to share all their learning with you all soon.
How you can help at home:
Have a shape hunt in your home- can your child identify some 2 D shapes and explain why they think it’s a particular shape? How many vertices does a triangle have? Can they identify how many sides a circle has?
As always, your child’s phonics reading book is changed on a Friday. Please continue to listen to them reading and encourage them to use their robot arms to help them when they are decoding an unknown word.