Making the gowns...
Check out the finished puppets here...
Writing
Visit our new display!
Word Box Copies
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Kind Regards,
Ms Murray
The children are delighted with their new puppets they made! They worked so hard and made each puppet so uniquely beautiful! I hope they will cherish them and keep them forever! Well done boys and girls!
Making the gowns...Check out the finished puppets here...Writing
Your child may have mentioned to you that we have started the formal learning of correct letter formation. The children are now well skilled in the use of pencils and have strengthened their correct pencil grip. They are also well practiced in copying the intricate patterns necessary for correct letter formation, through their regular drawing practice. I am very happy with their first efforts and over the second half of the year we will be re-visiting the letters with the focus on letter formation. This will also offer an opportunity for children to revise their letter sounds in a different context which should improve phonetic fluency.
Visit our new display!Word Box Copies
The children will be going home with their new Word Box copies in their homework folder next week. Once your child is familiar with most of the sounds, the next step is to blend or stretch out the letter sounds to hear the word. Please encourage the children to blend smoothly by "stretching out" the sounds on one continuous breath (without any gaps) rather than choppy separating of letter sounds. They may find this difficult but it tends to just click at some point with plenty practice and repetition.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Just a reminder to please return your child's homework folder to your child's schoolbag each day so that it is brought to school everyday. Also homework readers MUST be returned every Friday so I can pass them onto the next child. Thank you.
Have a great weekend.
Kind Regards, Ms Murray
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It's All The About Snow!
This weeks topic couldn't have been more fitting! The girls and boys in room 5 were learning all about snow... ask your child where snow comes from? or what is snow made from? We read lots of lovely stories about snow. This one was particularly special...
We moved like the twirling, swirling snowflakes in the story during our gymnastics lesson.
PE - Twirling Snowflakes from Ms Murray on Vimeo.
We learnt that Inuit people build houses out of snow... so we built one in our own class for play time.
Then teacher taught us how to draw an Igloo using curved lines and shadows... Scroll through the photos to see everyones great drawing!
Teacher tried to show us how to build an Igloo out of our white snow-doh... but we think it looks more like a string of sausages!
And just to create a really snow filled experience teacher even arranged for it to snow real snow for a day! We were the lucky ones who enjoyed our very own snow ball fight!
In other news...Fantastic homework this week... Well done everyone!Parent Teacher MeetingsI'm Looking forward to seeing everyone on Monday for the PTM. Please knock at your time.
Have a great weekend!
Kind Regards, Ms Murray Happy New Year!
Welcome back to everyone after what I hope was a restful Christmas break. It was lovely to see all the children so happy to be back in school and I think we are all glad to be back in our routines!
We had a very busy week this week... our new topic is CLOTHES and we have been busy learning all our new words! Our focus book is...
The Smartest Giant In TownMaths - Sorting clothesWriting Practice - Drawing Clothes
Looking for shapes in the objects we want to draw helps us learn to draw new things.
Language Towards Literacy - Clothes GamesArt - George Puppets!
Looking forward to seeing how our Smartest Giant in Town puppets turn out next week! He still has to get a smart new gown...
Check back next week to see how they turn out...
DEAR Time
I love how the children just scurry off to their little snugs when I say "Drop Everything And Read!"
The Smartest Giant In Town by Julia Donaldson
Finally I would like you to enjoy our special little project we worked on this week. We did our own little rendition of our favourite story by our favourite author Julia Donaldson... we hope you enjoy it as the children worked very hard on it.
The Smartest Giant In Town! from Ms Murray on Vimeo.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone,
Regards, Ms Murray |
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