Well, I cannot believe I am writing the last ‘Things to ask me’ of the year! The time seems to have whizzed by.  We have all thoroughly  enjoyed teaching your amazing children in Room 4. We hope you have a fantastic summer and return to school ready to begin the fun and learning again in Year 1.

Some important things before we start.

• PE is as normal on Monday.
• The last Forest school session will be on Tuesday not Wednesday next week. This means we can sent home waterproof clothes and wellies on Tuesday afternoon.
• Your child may come home with their books from this year tonight.  If they don’t, please don’t worry, we have to keep a set of books in school for 1 year as evidence of learning.  They will get them back at the end of Year 1.

Things to ask your child about their learning this week.

• we have been practising counting in 2,5,10 and we are getting pretty confident with the pattern. Please can you practise counting in 2s to 20, 5s to 50 and 10s to 100.
• We have been focusing on capital letters.  Have a little look around the house, or while you are out and about for where capital letters are used. Can you draw them with your finger? Can you match lower case and capital letters?
• We have been talking about our hopes and worries for next year.  Perhaps you could talk about this at home, if you haven’t already.  Look out for a little booklet coming your way next week all about Room 5.
• This week we have written letters to Ms Vincent and Mrs Manna. We have told them all about ourselves.
• We have been practising reading and writing the Phase 3 tricky words, they are: I, are, they, into, to, go, no, the, was, my, all, her, she, he, me, be.  we have also practised have.   It would be really useful if the children could continue to review reading and writing these words over the holidays to keep them fresh in their minds.
• We have been looking at landscapes this week.  We painted our own landscape picture of Pontesford Hill using water colour paints.

Next week we have plenty of fun planned.  As it’s going to be so warm, please can all children bring their water bottles, sun hats and suntan lotion to school.  It is fine to wear shorts and tee shirts on Tuesday but please can the children have long sleeved tops and trousers for Forest School.

I hope you have a wonderful summer,

Mrs Pope x

Well, it has been another very busy week in Room 4.  I’m not quite sure where the time goes but we seem to have plenty to fill it with!

Things to ask the children about this week.

• We have been focussing on capital letters this week.
• Can you spot any capital letters at home?
• Can you write the lower case letter that matches the capital letter.
• Can you sing the alphabet song.
• Can you remember all the letter names and sounds?
• We have been finding larger and smaller numbers. so for example, if I say the number 14, can you tell me a larger number and a smaller number.
• In Forest School this week we made perfume using water and other object the children collected such a leaves, flowers.  Perhaps they could make one at home and write down a list of the ingredients they used.
• We have written our own amazing versions of The Very Hungry Caterpillar this week.  We thought carefully about what the caterpillar might eat and the children had lots of their own suggestions.  Perhaps they can tell you what their caterpillar ate.
• We have been looking carefully at our class caterpillars.  I am sure the children can tell you what exciting thing has happened to them this week?
• We have been continuing to practise reading and writing some very tricky phase 3 words. Maybe they can show you how to spell: are, you, they, all, her.

Next week, please can the children wear PE kit on Monday, Tuesday (Sports Day) and Thursday. Forest School as usual on Wednesday. Normal uniform on Friday!

If you have any cardboard tubes or small boxes at home, our junk modelling draw is looking a little low and we would really appreciate a few donations.

I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

Mrs Pope

I hope you have all had a lovely week.  Here are some things to ask the children about their learning this week or some ideas for things you may like to do at home.

• We have been learning about 3D shapes this week. We have named: cone, sphere, cube, cuboid, cylinder.  Can you go on a little hunt and find some of these shapes around the house.
• Can you remember what the word vertices means?
• Can you tell everybody what has happened to our caterpillars this week?
• What does the word metamorphosis mean?
• what does the word excrete mean?
• In our art work this week we have looked at landscapes, what is a landscape picture?  Perhaps you can have a go at drawing one.
• We have learnt the last of our phase 3 tricky words. ‘are’ and ‘all’.  How many times can you write them.  You could write them in lots of different colours on a piece of paper or in chalk, whatever you fancy.
• Can you remember what Hindu women have on their hands, and sometimes legs, for a celebration (henna patterns called mehndi)

Thank you for another amazing week Room 4.  Yet again you have blown us away with your amazingness!

See you all on Monday

Mrs Pope