Term 3 Week 3

This week we have been focusing on respect and resilience in class. We have been trying to encourage the children to have a try at things before they rely on adult help. The children have been trying as hard as they can to be more independent.

English: 

The children learnt about the ‘ay’ digraphs. We built on their knowledge of the ‘ay – may I play’ and then introduced ‘ai – snail in the rain’. The children learnt that most of the time ‘ay’ is used at the end of the word whereas ‘ai’ is used in the middle of a word. We revisited our previous learning on the first person and used this to think of sentences about Usain Bolt and what he is like. We have also learnt about exclamation marks and how these are used to emphasise things that we are saying. We looked at pictures of Usain Bolt and thought about what people might be saying if they saw him in the different situations.  

Maths: 

The children have revisited their previous knowledge about number bonds. We practised recalling our number bonds to 10 and then moved on to learn about our number bonds to 20. Some children thought about how they could use their knowledge of fact families to identify the subtraction sentences with the related numbers.

PSHE:

The children have continued their learning about talking to adults out of school but in relation to what we do if we get lost. We learnt about the importance of knowing who is safe to talk to and who you shouldn’t really talk to in these situations.

Computing:

The children have continued developing their skills on a laptop. We noticed last week that whilst they were practising where their fingers sit on the keyboard for the different letters, they were still using one or two fingers at a time. So, we encouraged the children this week, to rest their wrists and gently place the rest of their fingers on the keys.

History:

The children learnt about the nurse Mary Seacole. They learnt about who she was in comparison to Florence Nightingale and how her methods of helping the sick were different to those of Florence Nightingale. The children began to learn how Mary Seacole used herbs as a method of treating different illnesses. They also learnt how she went out into the battlefields to help the injured soldiers, whereas Florence Nightingale treated them in the confines of a hospital.

Please read with your child at home, we have noticed a huge decline in the number of children who are reading at home.  

Have a wonderful weekend, see you next week. 

Ivy Class Team