Friday 24th January

 Friday 24th January

This week at school we had a fantastic visit from Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service.  We learnt about the job of a firefighter. We learnt how to check our smoke alarms were working. We were set the challenge to find the smoke alarms in our house and to ask our adults to check them once a week.  We learnt how to make a 999 call.  You might like to ask your child to practise their address as many did not know their house number or name of their road when role playing this activity.


English and History

This week in English we have written simple recounts of the events of the Great fire of London and made our own non-fiction fact books about the Great Fire.

We were really proud of the way the children wrote simple sentences with straightforward subject/verb agreement.

You might like to play the game below to explore what happened during the Great Fire of London.

Fire of London game

Computing

In computing this week we used "Paint".  We learnt to manipulate the mouse in order to insert and fill shapes.

Phonics 

In Phonics this week we  have continued to revisit our Phase 5 graphemes to develop our confidence in reading and writing words with these sounds.  This week we have revisited alternative graphemes for the ee digraph. These include ea, e_e, ey, y and ie. 
You might like to play the games on Bug club which practise these sounds.  We have also allocated the books; Easy-Peasy!, Sunny Days, Rainy Days and Staying In to practise this week's sounds.

Maths
This week in Maths we have been learning to partition 2 digit numbers into tens and units and to record this as a number sentence e.g. 27 = 20 + 7
We also used part/whole models to record and solve simple word problems e.g. "If there are 10 sweets in the jar and Sam eats 8.  How many will be left?"


Resilience
In school we are trying hard to encourage the children to become more resilient when working and playing together.  We are thinking hard as adults about the language that we use.  Please see below for some of the phrases that we are using to encourage resilience.

Please continue to send in junk modelling cardboard boxes.




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