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This Week

In Literacy this week we have continued our learning on instructions. We wrote our own instructions for how to brush your teeth and had an excellent demonstration from Seb. In Maths we have been focussing on number and place value. We have been counting in 10s and 5s and using pictures to help us. In Design and Technology we started creating our own houses and in SEAL we have been practising working together as a team.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘ur’, ‘ow’ and ‘oi’ phonemes. If you have any free time please practise words with these phonemes in with your child. You can find suggestions of words to use in your child’s Phonics Book.

Homework

This week’s homework is a place value Maths activity. The children either need to complete the one more and one less worksheet or the abacus worksheet which involves tens and units. For an extra challenge why not draw your own representations of two digit numbers using tens and units. For example, you might draw the number 22 as two big circles for the tens and then two small triangles for the units.

Support tips:

• Use a number line or a 100 square to help your child find the number and the numbers that are one more and one less. If you type 100 square into a search engine you should find ‘splat square’ which is an interactive 100 square that you can use to support Maths activities.
• Discuss two digit numbers with your child. Encourage them to think about the then 1^st digit as the tens number and the 2^nd digit as the units.

Harvest Festival

Our joint Harvest Festival takes place on Tuesday at 9:30am at St Michael’s church. We will be walking the children down and back to the church. We ask the children to bring in a contribution to our donation to the local foodbank. Suitable items include tins of fruits, vegetables, soups, packets of rice, pasta and biscuits. Thanks in advance for you donations. Looking forward to seeing you at the celebration.

Many thanks

Rachel Kitaruth and Laura Dix

rkitaruth@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

Important dates

20^th October Harvest Festival St Michaels Church 9:30am

23^rd October Halloween disco KS1 6pm-7pm

23^rd October- Last day for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes.

26^th-30^th October- Half term.

3rd November – Back to School.

Our superstar home learners . . .

This Week

Subtraction has been our focus in Maths this week. We have been using ‘tap and unwrap’ to solve Subtraction number sentences. The children have been fantastic at practising their ‘take aways’. In English we have been writing instructions. We have had been taking on the role of bossy boots in the classroom to practise writing in this style. In Computing we have been learning how to log on to the laptops independently which has been quite a challenge. The children are e-safety experts and have learnt a rhyme to help them remember how to stay safe on the computers.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘or’, ‘oo’, ‘th’ and ‘ar’ phonemes. If you have any free time please practise words with these phonemes in with your child. You can find suggestions of words to use in your child’s Phonics Book.

Homework

The childrens’ homework this week is to write a set of instructions for making a sandwich. We have learnt about writing instructions this week and the children wrote instructions for how to make a wolf mask. On the writing frame there are suggestions of words that the children might find helpful. For an extra challenge write your own set of instructions. For example, you might like to write a set of instructions for how to draw a cat or how to make a sand castle.

Support tips:

• Encourage your child to sound out the words that they want to write. Don’t worry if this means the word is spelt incorrectly.
• Encourage your child to read what they have written.
• Reinforce the importance of capital letters and full stops.
• Use bossy language.

Many thanks

Rachel Kitaruth and Laura Dix

rkitaruth@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

Important dates

20^th October Harvest Festival St Michaels Church 9:30am

23^rd October Halloween disco KS1 6pm-7pm

23^rd October- Last day for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes.

26^th-30^th October- Half term.

3rd November – Back to School.

Superstar Home Learning and Wow moments . . . .

We have been learning about Money in Maths . . .

We worked together to make Christian Churches in R.E . . .

This Week

Money has been our focus in Maths this week. We have been learning the names of all of the coins, using coins to pay for items when shopping, and solving money number sentences. We have learnt about labels in English and wrote our own labels and captions for items in the classroom. In Art and Design we started to make our wolf masks and in Design and Technology we made our own trap doors and went on a hinge hunt.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘air’, ‘oi’, ‘ure’ and ‘ear’ phonemes. If you have any free time please practise words with these phonemes in with your child. You can find suggestions of words to use in your child’s Phonics Book.

St Piran Class Homework

In English this week we have been learning about labelling and captions. For homework this week I would like the children to draw an item and write their own label and caption for the item. For example they might draw a picture of their dog and explain that a dog is a type of animal. As an extra challenge see if you can include wow words in your caption and create your own labels and captions for other objects in your house.

Support tips:

• This week the children have learnt that a label tells you the name of an item and that the caption tells you more information about that item.
• Encourage your child to sound out the words that they want to write. Don’t worry if this means the word is spelt incorrectly.
• Encourage your child to read what they have written.
• Reinforce the importance of capital letters and full stops.

Class Blog

St Piran Class weekly newsletters, information and photos of your children can be found on the Class Blog. To access the Class Blog please visit www.perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk and click on Learning Platform, then Class Blogs and then St Piran.

Many thanks

Rachel Kitaruth and Laura Dix

rkitaruth@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

Important dates

Harvest Festival TBC

9^th October- Individual School photos.

26^th-30^th October- Half term.

Excellent Home learning . . .

We looked for materials on the building site as part of our Science. . .

This Week

We wrote our own ‘Three Little Pig’ stories this week. The children created their own characters and houses to use in their stories. In Maths we have been focussing on addition this week. The children have been finding all of the ways of making numbers and adding on using tap and unwrap and number lines.

We started to choreograph our own Gymnastics routines in PE and designed our wolf masks in Art and Design.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘oa’, ‘or’, ‘ur’ and ‘ow’ phonemes. If you have any free time please practise words with these phonemes in with your child. You can find suggestions of words to use in your child’s Phonics Book.

Homework

One of our activities in Maths this week has been finding all of the ways of making a number which is called partitioning. The children need either count the spots on the ladybirds or draw the spots on the dominoes to help them make the number 5 or 10. For an extra challenge use tap and unwrap to complete some addition number sentences. Please encourage your child to put their homework book in the homework book box when their homework is complete. At the back of your child’s book you will find a Wow Moment template. Please fill in this template when you have a Wow Moment which you would like to celebrate in School. Other wow moments can also be brought into the classroom and stuck into children’s Learning Adventure Books. The children really enjoy sharing their wow moments with each other and it is great to share achievements outside of School with them so please bring them in.

Support tips:

• Ask your child to count the spots that are already there.
• Write down how many there are underneath.
• Count on to find out how many are needed to make 5 or 10.

Hearing Screening

On Friday 25^th September members of St Piran Class will be having a hearing test. Please contact the office if you have any further questions or concerns about the hearing test.

Mathletics

Please find a Mathletics log in attached to the front of your Childs’ reading record.

Many thanks

Rachel Kitaruth and Laura Dix

rkitaruth@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

Important dates

18^th September- Our turn to provide cakes for the cake sale.

Harvest Festival TBC

9^th October- Individual School photos.

26^th-30^th October- Half term.

Our home learning superstars . . .

We made our own freeze frames of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ . . .

We shared our ‘All About Me’ bags . . .

We investigated shell and frame structures in Design & Technology. . .

This Week

This week in English the children have been exploring the story of the ‘Three Little Pigs’. We went into the storytelling area and created freeze frames of the main events in the story. The children particularly enjoyed acting as wolves with burnt tails. In Maths we have been focussing on the ordering of numbers and finding one more and one less than a given number. We went on a material hunt around the classroom as part of our Science and we explored the things we can do to keep our classroom a safe and happy place in SEAL.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘ai’,‘ar’,‘oo’ and ‘igh’ phonemes. If you have any free time please practise words with these phonemes in with your child. You should have also received a copy of the phonemes with suggested phonics websites on the reverse in your child’s book bag.

Homework

This week in English we have been exploring the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’. For homework this week I would like the children to choose a favourite character from the story and write at least one sentence about that character. For example, ‘My favourite character is the big bad wolf because he is scary.’ For an extra challenge choose your favourite character from any traditional tale or fairy tale and explain why they are your favourite.

Support tips:

• Talk about the characters in the story. (The Mummy pig, the three little pigs and the big bad wolf).
• Ask your child to say their sentence out loud before they write it down.
• Encourage your child to remember their capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
• Encourage your child to sound out words that they don’t know how to spell.

Mathletics

Your child now has access to Mathletics. Mathletics is an online Maths programme allowing children to practise all aspects of Mathematics. Children can work towards certificates which are based on the amount they complete and not their level of mathematics. These certificates are awarded in assembly and the programme is hugely popular in our school.  Please find an individual log in and a password in your child’s bookbag.  To log in to Mathletics use a search engine to search for Mathletics. On the homescreen in the top right hand corner click ‘sign in’. Use the username and password provided to sign in.  I have shown the children how to log on in class but they may require assistance at home.

Many thanks

Rachel Kitaruth and Laura Dix

rkitaruth@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

Important dates

18^th September- Our turn to provide cakes for the cake sale.

Harvest Festival TBC

26^th-30^th October- Half term.