To all our wonderful Highflyer families,

This week in our geography topic work we are thinking about 'cold' places and reading the class book 'Lost and Found'.  Our writing in English, as before, is linked to our topic work as we learn more about the North and South Poles.

Phonics and Spellings

This week the phonic focus is:  Week 3 - Long /e/ + endings to split digraph words / other words ending in ‘e’ 

                                                   / ee / ea / -y / e / ie / e_e / 

Please remember – wherever possible - to send school planners into school every day.

Reading

Our reading book, for a final week, remains the traditional tale about 'Chicken Little'. We will complete the book this week; therefore, please do encourage your lovely children to bring it into school every day – so we can collect a complete ‘class pack’ by Friday.   We will continue to have discussion in depth about plot, characters and settings, making predictions and deductions and studying why the author uses specific words at certain places.  We will also think about what deeper message the author might trying to communicate through a story and learn how books can offer more than just reading the text.  We shall also be looking at performing the story and being 'storytellers' with different character voices and making the story 'come alive' as we read it together. Additionally, there can be a 'free choice' book to bring home as well – if required.

Maths

There will be mastering number and problem solving every week.  This week the children will revisit and reason about the composition of even numbers. They will begin by recapping that even numbers can be made by combining 2 numbers that are the same, and that this can be described using the language of ‘double _____ is _____’. They will represent doubles on their fingers, on 10-frames and on a part–part–whole diagram, relating this to addition equations. They will then use 10 as a starting point to explore whether the parts that combine to make an even number are odd or even. This will help the children to begin to generalise that even numbers can be made with either 2 odd numbers OR 2 even numbers.  Our unit of Oak Academy maths will continue as place value – however, this week we will begin to start focusing on partitioning numbers (1-100) .  

Maths Homework - We hope you all found one homework sheet last Friday.  These, ideally, need to be handed back in by next Friday – if complete; although please do not hesitate to drop a quick line to our Highflyer email if there are any queries about completion of the questions!

Forest School is, again, on Wednesday morning - don't forget your change of clothes! - followed by Performance Sport Tag Rugby continuing each Thursday at 1.30pm (with Mrs Greenwood more than happy for the children to wear their PE kits for the entire day/arrive in them!)

MANY thanks and have a lovely week!

Mrs Winters and the HF ‘Team’