Friday 19th April

 Friday 19th April 

Welcome back to school, we hope that you had a good break. 

This half term at school we will be learning about plants and how they grow.   

If you have any spare seeds, flower pots, soil or plants that you could donate, we would be very grateful.

In Science this week we learnt about seeds.   We set up an investigation to find out how we could discover which items in our collection were seeds and which were not.  The children suggested planting each object to find out if it would grow.

Phonics
Please look out for the orange sheet in your child's book bag this week.  This is to support your child in becoming more confident in recalling and then blending the sounds that they have learnt at school so far.  In June your child will be doing the Statutory National Phonics screening check which checks their confidence in blending phonic sounds.
 Please can you practise reading the real and "alien" words on the orange sheet with your child.  Encourage them to draw on the sound buttons, then to carefully say each sound and then to blend the sounds together to read each word.  We have put the sound buttons on the words on one side of the paper so that you know where they need to go!



This week in Phonics we have revisited alternative graphemes for  "c", these are "k", "ck" and "ch" as in "echo".  It would be great if you could practise these sounds using the games on Bug club and by reading this week's allocated book. 
Thank you!
Maths
In Maths this week we have continued to learn about money.  We used our place value knowledge to make amounts of money to £1 using 10p and 1p coins.   We set up a class shop and practised paying for items using 10p and 1p coins.  It would be great if you could encourage the children to practise using coins at home to make amounts.

Computing
This week in computing, we made worlds for our Beebot programmable robots (see image above).  We then practised programming the Beebot to move around our worlds.
Your child might like to practise this at home by using the free app above for Apple or Android devices. 




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