This week we have been looking at the story 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers. We have been working on getting to know the story by retelling it in different waya - for example using actions... 

...and creating some lovely 'story maps' to help us remember the order of the story!

In Maths we have been thinking about how to find fractions of shapes. Our friend 'Mr Pineapple' wants to have a birthday party but he cannot decide what colour he wants his party plates and mats so we have been experimenting with designing some with different fractions in different colours, such as half yellow and half green, or one quarter red and three quarters blue.

As part of our Science and Topic work we have been thinking about 'Winter in Wenhaston' and have been measuring the weather using a thermometer (temperature), rain gauge (rain fall) and weather vane (wind direction). We have then been keeping a weather diary to compare with the weather in Antarctica.

The snow today certainly helped us with this too! 

Home Learning:

Home Learning this week is to keep practising finding fractions - there are activities in Home Learning books that are similar to ones we have been doing in class this week.

You could also try cutting some things into fractions (halves and quarters) this weekend - food, playdough, paper shapes etc.

Spellings:

We have changed how we will be doing spellings this term.

The children will now learn and practice spelling a different word each day in Spelling Time (Monday - Thursday). 

On Friday children apply the learned words in sentences (which usually include other 'tricky' words or words learned in phonics sessions that week.).

We will then send the words home in spelling books for further practice over the weekend.

Please continue to practice these words, especially any marked with a pink dot – these will be those your child is still finding tricky and has not mastered yet.

We hope that this will help children retain spelling patterns/rules for key words more easily, rather than simply ‘learning for a test’.