Welcome to Spring 2!
I hope you have all had a restful break, welcome back and WOW what an exciting half term we have ahead!
This half term we will be learning all about 'New Arrivals'. This exciting theme will enable us to look at the many similarities and differences between humans, animals, birds and aquatic life. We will embed the importance of caring for living things and observing growth with a surprise arrival in March.
We will discover that new life arrives in different ways and that it is not just birds that hatch from eggs. We will identify that changes in ourselves and animals happens at a different rate and gain a deeper understanding of the habitats of the living things around us.
In Maths this half term we will continue to work on number bonds and learn about subtraction. We will use the vocabulary 'Take-away, Minus, less than, equals and total'.
Please continue to access our online Learning Journey, Dojo, for daily updates on your child's achievements and progress. Also please upload any achievements or exciting moments your child would like to share with their friends.
If you do not have access to Dojo as yet, please contact the office so that we can set up your login. Dojo is where you will find your child's homework. It is important that you encourage your child to complete any homework set, this will support their learning progress.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact school or myself on Dojo and we will do our upmost to resolve any questions or concerns.
I look forward to seeing you all for what will be an exciting half term.
Ms Frankland
Dojo
Dojo is used daily to record observations of your child's progress and development. We link it to the Early Years outcomes and once it has been posted you can see your own child's learning journey.
Just like you, Dojo enables me to observe your child's learning and progress. Please upload any learning or special moments your child carries out at home. I can use any observations uploaded by yourselves to link learning objectives and characteristics of effective learning that your child meets. Observations are how we assess your children daily in class to ensure they are making progress.
Read Write Inc
The children have made astounding progress in their first half term. We will continue our daily Phonics lessons. We have completed our current letter sounds, learning their sound and the mnemonic which supports the letter formation. This half term we will continue to develop our letter formation on lined paper and will continue to develop segmenting words and blending them back together. We will also learn to use our phonetic knowledge, using 'Fred Fingers' to write words.
To support your child with their phonics it would be fantastic if you continue to access any video updates that are put on Dojo. These videos are short and fast but really assist the children with their re4ading and writing skills.
I will continue to upload RWI videos for homework.
Please encourage your child to log on to Sumdog. This site is a fun way of embedding number learning.
Please encourage your child to log on to their Sumdog account. There are lots of fab number games that will help them with their progress, knowledge and understanding of numbers.
Our Maths scheme is 'Power Maths' and over the next half term we continue to look at numbers to 20 in depth and also learn about measurement.