Term 3 week 1
Welcome back to Term 3 of your child's school year. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break and enjoyed lots of time together. The children have come back to school full of enthusiasm towards their learning and we have been incredibly proud of all of them and the great listening they have demonstrated so far.
This term the children will be learning about People from the Past as part of our History topic.
English:
The children have been continuing to practise their cursive handwriting and their phonics skills. The children learnt about the set 3 sound 'ea - cup of tea', they wrote the words to match pictures that used this sound - tea, sea, clean, dream. The children have also begun to learn about letters, they had a go at writing a letter independently before learning about the features of a letter.
Maths:
The children have continued their learning about shapes. They have been learning about 2D shapes, they explored the properties of the shapes by drawing the shapes and counting the sides and corners. They have used 2D shapes to create their own pictures and have named the 2D shapes we have been focusing on. The children have also learnt about symmetry; they explored cutting shapes to identify where the lines of symmetry would be.
PE:
This term the children will be doing Gymnastics with Miss Muddassir and then Outdoor Adventurous Activities as part of a Games unit with Mrs Russell.
PSHE:
The children learnt about how we can talk to adults in a familiar setting. They looked at different scenarios and identified the most appropriate ways to talk to adults in these different situations. We thought about how we could still be polite even if we are approached by people we don't know and how we can keep ourselves safe in these sorts of situations.
Music:
The children learnt about how they can respond to music. We listened to the piece of music 'Colonel Hathi's March', thinking about why the instruments used were chosen to represent elephants. They then responded to the beat in the music by marching like elephants.
Computing:
The children have been developing their skills on a laptop. They explored the letters on the keyboard and practised writing their names.
History:
The children discovered a suitcase had been left in the classroom with some unknown contents. The children predicted who could have left the suitcase and then together they opened the suitcase and discussed the person that could have used them. The children then learnt about the famous person - Florence Nightingale. The children began learning about who she was and why she was such an important person in History.
We have noticed this week that there are lots of children that haven't been reading at home, please continue reading with your child and recording it in their reading records.
Have a wonderful weekend, see you next week.
Ivy Class Team