Monthly Archives: September 2015

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.