Ash Class Inspire, nurture and challenge 

We’ve had another busy week in class and I think it is safe to say we are all ready for half term. We have had a fun week with a few extra treats thrown in, including some Forest school fun in fallen leaves (see the photo below!) and a dance class with Miss Ford. The children had a fab time working with Miss Ford who, as some of you may know, was a West End performer. She told the children the story “Where the wild things are” and then they performed the story to music, working in small groups and showing their readiness when Miss Ford said “Directors coming!!”

In Maths we have been sequencing numbers and we have started to look at part part whole models, and breaking numbers down into tens and ones. Your children could practice the first objective at home, if you want a quick holiday activity. Lay out some number cards to 20, 30 or 50. Get your child to pick5. Can they put them in order, smallest to largest? Can they select the biggest number? Can they say how they know it is bigger? If your child needs an extra challenge, you could write the words for each number (eg twelve, twenty, thirty one, sixteen) and ask them to read them and sequence them, as this is also a year one objective.

In English, we continue to look at letter formation, sentence building and remembering full stops and capital letters. We have also been reading a lot and practicing our phonics. The phonics we have looked at so far include;

All single letters (names and sounds), revisiting ch, sh, th, ng, oa, ai

Children should be fluent in these sounds and should be able to recognise them on sight, and write them. After half term we will start looking at “igh” and “ee”

There are lots of places to find phonics on line and your child will probably be able to tell you what they enjoy, but we use Alphablocks, Mr Thorne, Geraldine the giraffe and PhonicsPlay. If you would like more help or weblinks, let me know in the comments.

Have a lovely half term, Mrs Wiggs