End of Term 2

The following are some concepts that we have been learning this semester. You may wish to revise some of these concepts over the upcoming holidays. We wish all our families a safe and enjoyable holiday with their children. The children are on holiday break from Monday 8 July, with children returning on Tuesday 23^rd July.

Numeracy

Number stories- we have continued revising addition and subtraction number stories. Children use counters to represent the items stated in the number story. They are then asked to draw a picture to represent the number story, before writing it as a sum.

Doubles- We have also been learning about doubles to 10. I.e. double 1 is 2, double 2 is 4, and double 3 is 6.

Days of the week-The children have enjoyed learning the days of the weeks. Ask them to sing you the song (it’s sure to get stuck in your head.)

Revising numbers 1-20.  Children are encouraged to read write and say numbers to 20. They are also encouraged to recognise numbers that come before or after a given number.

English

Handwriting- This term the children have been working hard during handwriting to form upper and lower case letters with the correct formation. 

Adjectives- adjectives are words that describe a noun. The children have been adding adjectives to sentences to make them sound more interesting. I.e. The spider was in the web. Add adjective, the black spider was in the web. 

Sight words-We continue to revise all introduced sight words including reading, golden, red, blue and green words.  The children are expected to read these words in isolation and are now beginning to recognise them with in sentences.

Phonics- We have focused this term on blends. A blend is two sounds that blend together, you can hear both sounds. The children are expected to read words by blending these sounds together.

i.e.      bl-a-b    bl-o-b  sl-u-g  pl-u-g

Reports 

Each child will be receiving a written report. These will come home on Thursday 4/7/19.