Well done F2P for having the highest attendance in Foundation Stage and KS1 for the second week running. Keep it up.

Just a reminder that Monday is our family learning session at 2pm. We will be making hedgehogs. There will not be Book and a biscuit.

We had a whole day learning and experiencing numbers. We made numbers using construction outside. We added and subtracted in the sand pit. We used Numicon to make pictures and we painted numbers.

We have been learning about trees and the animals that live in them having read After the storm by Nick Butterworth. Ayman created his own tree which he also labelled. We are very proud of Ayman’s learning today.

We have been working together to practice reading words containing phase 3 graphemes. Today we used pictures and words and the children had to read the words and see if the word matched the pictures. The children were very enthusiastic.

We are continuing to practice our phase 3 graphemes, recognising them, reading and writing them in words.

There will be a meeting for any parent interested in coming into school to listen to children read in F2.  Mrs Ibbertson will explain how we teach children to read and how you can help.

The meeting will be on Wednesday 26th February @ 2.30.

Please let Mrs Price know if you are interested in attending.

Thank you for your support

Today we investigated the best material to make Little Red Riding Hood’s coat out of.

The children predicted which would be the best material and why. We then tested the materials. We had to wait to see if the water would wet Red Riding Hood hiding in the cup. She got wet several times! We watched very closely.

Finally we agreed that plastic would be best. We learnt the word waterproof and had a look at our own waterproofs, coats and wellies.

The challenge will now be to make a coat for Red Riding Hood that won’t tear and will keep her dry.

This week in maths we are learning to group objects. We have talked about equal and unequal groups and have now started learning about groups of 2’s, 5’s and 10’s

Today we used socks and objects to help us make pairs. Lots of children confused the number of objects with the number of pairs so we will continue to work on this.

Ideas to practice at home

Sorting socks into matching pairs and counting the pairs

Find pairs of objects around the house

Find pairs of objects on the body eg 2 eyes and say how many pairs

Thank you to all the adults that came to read with their child today. It was lovely to see so many children engaged in reading. If you couldn’t make it then don’t worry. The sessions will be on a Monday and a Friday 2.30-3.00.