Week Commencing – week beginning 11.9.17

Dear Parents/Carers,

Maths

Next week we will be looking at making sensible estimates when counting sets of objects and ordering and comparing numbers. We shall also be introducing the greater than and less than symbols. You may like to support your child at home by working on any of the following activities:

  • Counting sets of objects e.g. pasta, marbles and Lego
  • Grouping sets of objects for ease of counting (2’s, 5’s, 10s and 3’s)
  • Counting on and back from any given number up to 100
  • Identifying 1 more and 1 less than a given number – moving onto 10 more and less as your child is ready

Home Reading Books

Your child should have brought home some colour banded books today together with a new style Reading Record book. Please can you record any reading completed at home. This can include library books, magazines, newspaper etc. There is additional information and activities in these books which you are very welcome to use as you and your child wish.

We will collect these books in every few weeks but if you have a concern regarding reading please can you either e mail us or pop in after school for a chat.

The children will have opportunities during the school day to change these books but please can you remind your child when they need to choose new books.

Often children are able to read the words in a book at a higher level than they are able to interpret and understand what they are reading.  Understanding and an ability to talk confidently about what they have read is a very important skill the children need to acquire in order to enjoy and progress confidently through the reading levels.

You may find some of the following activities useful in helping your child develop these important skills;

Fiction Books

  • Ask your child to retell the story in their own words.
  • What happens at the beginning, middle and end?
  • Make predictions about what might happen next.
  • Choose a character and talk about all the things you know about them – or what you think they may be like from your understanding of the events and themes in the story.
  • Choose your favourite character and think about what they might eat, wear, play, do; likes – dislikes; dreams, worries etc.
  • Did the story remind you of anything?
  • Find a word or a sentence from the book which you liked especially.
  • What 3 questions you would like to ask a character in the story.
  • Can you think of a different ending to the story?
  • Choose a setting in the story – how would you describe it?
  • Can you say 3 things you enjoyed about this book?

Information Books

  • Find three new or tricky words – do you know what they mean?
  • List at least 3 new facts that you have found out from reading this book.
  • Think of some questions for other people in your family which they can answer by reading this book.
  • What else would you like to know that is not explained in this book?
  • Key vocabulary to talk about and find in the book – index, contents, captions, glossary, labels, diagrams, photographs, headings, sub headings.

Wet Play

Please can your child bring in a named colouring book that they can keep in their tray for wet play times

Pupil Acceptable User Policy for ICT

Attached to this letter are 2 copies of the Year 2 pupil acceptable use policy for ICT. This will also be shared in class with the children and we would appreciate your support to reinforce this guidance at home to keep them safe online. Please could one copy of the policy be returned to school signed by both you and your child. If you would like further information about keeping children safe online then please see the e-safety section on the main St Martin’s School blog page www.stmartinsprimaryschool.edublogs.org

Many thanks,

Mrs Ashworth, Mrs Ash, Mrs Page

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