We hope you all had a lovely half term, it has been wonderful to see all the boys again. On Monday the boys wrote about their half term holidays and shared some of their magic moments, thank you for completing these.
We started our new topic of ‘Traditional Tales’. We began by reading the story ‘The Jolly Postman’, where the Jolly Postman delivers post to many traditional tale characters. Our role play area is now the ‘Jolly Post Office’.
On Tuesday morning Mrs Hillcoat came in to visit RGC and RGM to read a story to the boys in Spanish. The boys learnt a few key words and some other words within the story. They noticed that lots of words sound similar to English words. It was a lovely experience, which all the boys enjoyed. If you would like to share another language at school we would very much welcome a visit.
During phonics we have been consolidating the letter sounds taught so far and structuring sentences to include these. The boys are doing very well with this. We hope they enjoy writing sentences in their phonics homework this weekend.
In Computing the boys continued to explore the Bee-Bots, this week using an ipad app:
In Maths we learnt about doubling. The boys thoroughly enjoyed this concept and they used mental methods and their fingers to work out their answers.
For the maths activity this week, could you please explore doubling on your computer. The machine in the link below will double numbers up to 20. Before the machine calculates the answer, please double the number using your fingers. If doubling 6 and above, put one number in your head and count on with your fingers. Check to see if you got the same answer as the machine. Have fun!
http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Function-Machine-603
Here are some other things we got up to this week:
The boys love to create models during their ‘Explore and Learn’ time (child initiated play). We welcome any unwanted recycling you have at home for the boys to turn into models at any point in the year.
The star boys for next week are as follows:
Monday: Rufus
Tuesday: Sahil
Wednesday: Udodi
Thursday: Zach (New show and tell theme to follow)
Friday: Alex Lee
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Goring and Mrs MacNeill