Weekly Update - 24th September 2020
Miss Oates - 24 Sep 2020
Hello Everyone,
This has been a strange week. We have gone from beautiful sunshine and needing suncream to running around and splashing in puddles...but have enjoyed it all!
A big focus this week for us has been our reading skills. We have started completing some independent reading sessions where we read our school reading book to ourselves. We are really working hard on our building our fluency. You may notice that your child is keeping the smae book for a long time. This is not because they haven't read to us in school but it is because we feel they need to keep reading the same book so that they can link the indvidual sounds to the blended word quicker and easier. We are really enjoying the discussion of all our books too and are often spotted sharing our books with our friends.
Our science this week involved another hunt around our grounds but this time we were looking for different types of habitats. We were even lucky enough to find a toad! We are going to be looking at the characteristics of all these different habitats and have a go at making our own. I wonder what habitats you might see out and about this week?
We have had a good explore of the world this week and used Google Earth to zoom in on the UK then England and then Ripon. We were looking at what things looked like when seen from above. We then discussed how maps worked and had a go at making one for our classroom. We even had a go at using a 'key' for our maps. They were fabulous! Mrs Pawson tells me there are some maps up in the village...I wonder if you can spot thm when you are walking around?
Our class worship has been kindness. The children have been had some lovely ideaas and reflections on what kindness is. what it means and how we can show it. Perhaps you can continue to think about this over the weekend adn how you canshow kindness in your house.
Finally, thank you for all your kind donations towards our Jeans for Genes day last week. The children and I watched lots of videos on youtube made by the charity to explain to us where our money was going. These were great for helping us connect with the wider world and other communities. It once again highlighted the kind nature of our children.
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Oates
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