I would like to invite you to read stories to the children from drop off on Tuesday until about 9.15. You may be reading to your own child or other children could join you. If you have a favourite book you like to share with your child at home it would be lovely if you could bring it in. Don't worry if you can't stay as there will be plenty of stories being shared. I am on an assessment and moderation course in the morning so Mrs Dix will be in charge of the class. I am also away from class on Wednesday and Thursday so you will see more of Mrs Dix.
Home learning is to keep on learning the tricky word spellings and tricky sight words. I sent home the spelling assessments I did last week. As we progress through EYFS it is important that children are starting to correctly spell certain words. This continues in every year group. We are now entering a more formal and independent phase of the learning process and expectations of independence are increasing. We have been doing lots of different reading in class not linked to the home readers. Please continue to read at least 4-5 times a week. It doesn't matter that it is the same book although there are several children in class who are becoming increasingly more confident and fluent and we will start trying to change books more frequently.
This week we have been doing lots of number and have introduced recorded number sentences. They are learning the importance of using different objects to support counting. What better objects than our fingers especially when working on number bonds to 10 eg. 5+5, 6+4, 3+7
Understanding the +/= signs. We talk in terms of the answer balancing the sum so both sides of the = are the same
Moving on to recording our own sentences.
I am very lucky this year as I have two additional pairs of hands who can support your children. With only 22 in the class and three adults we are often able to work like this. Usually the ratio is 30 children to 1 teacher plus a teaching assistant.
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