You all better keep your eyes peeled! We are BAKED in business this week! You can really PEEL it in your bones! That this week has been a special one and if you want the puns to stop, you’re in for a ROOT awakening. The children and I have been ever vigilant for the evil pea. Luckily for us, Supertato was keeping an eye out too. It was a real treat seeing that Supertato made an appearance at some of your homes too! Trigraph! What on earth is a trigraph you may ask. Luckily for us Pendle Class worked extremely hard (as always) on a very tricky new concept. A trigraph simply put is 3 letters that makes one sound e.g. ‘igh’ l-igh-t = light. We did have a range of vowel sounds to work through. This will grow our writing/reading repertoire exponentially. In our phoneme frames and sentence writing, we implemented these sound in words and sentences. Children were even pushed to create their own sentence! Please give your little stars a big well done from me! In mathematics number composition was looked at, we gathered natural materials to match number and amount. Children then looked at irregular ways to count to given numbers. For example, 4 sticks and 3 cows. Individually we have 4 and 3, but instilling this number knowledge in us will allow us to make quick combined links for addition and subtraction. Number truly is all around us! Speaking of which, Christmas magic! I have emailed each of you roles and if needed, additional bits for costumes. If you have not received this, please contact me. Children made reflective pictures for the birth of Jesus Christ and an ‘I Wonder’ statement. This allows children to express a deeper thought about the story and discuss it with an adult or friend. We had 2 very special/ important events this week. Anti-bullying week and Pennies for Pudsey. As a class we looked at why these causes are important and how we can do a little bit of good in the world. Something that is very common, not just in the classroom, but at St. Francis! We will continue to look at these key themes and honour them not just for a day or week – but a lifetime! Thank you all for your love and support for the home learning. I hope you all have a lovely weekend together as a family and see you all Monday! I will see you TATER!
