What’s the Weather Like?

Hello!

It’s great to be back for the Summer term – the children all seemed to have grown both in stature and confidence. We’ve had a super first week back.

Our theme for this term is Up, Up and Away and we are looking at all things above us. We’ve started with the weather. A great discussion about where we might find out about the weather took place. We watched a daily weather forecast and decided whether the meteorologist had got the weather correct each day! The majority of children had never watched a weather forecast and were most used to seeing mum or dad look at the weather on their phone.

Our role play weather station enables the children to check the daily temperature and then choose weather symbols to show the current weather. The children have a range of clothing available to dress in to suit all types of weathers… they are embracing our weather writing task – writing up various weather words for our display. Everyone made a cloud and we have done a class rainbow … we have also been singing ‘ I can sing a Rainbow ‘ with much discussion on which version of the colour order is correct! Reception aged children are all very keen for everything to be right and proper and complain if we sing the colours in the ‘ wrong’ order!

We’ve completed writing about the Easter holidays along with weather writing tasks. We’ve revised some tricky trigraphs and diagraphs – ear, igh, ture, ai, oa along with more tricky words. Over all the children are doing very well with their writing, we are still working hard on reading with group reading, daily individual reading and whole class reading. If you are not yet hearing your child have a go at reading daily – please do – between 5 and 10 minutes is enough. Also remember to read to your child every day. Do this until they won’t let you anymore – it’s the most important ‘ homework’ / support from home any primary aged child can have. Read a book you loved as a child!

This fortnight’s number work is in the Shape and Space category and all about making patterns. We have made patterns with our voices, with numbers, colours, our bodies, our clothes, in songs, in stories and with coloured cubes along with more complex patterns with a variety of different objects.

Lots more weather work to cover next week. Also, please can you provide a NAMED pair of plimsoles or old trainers for our PE lessons in the next couple of weeks, as if the weather stays warm, we will migrate our lessons to the field. Please don’t invest in anything too pricey – the field is often muddy or dusty.

Thanks again for all your support – we’ve had a super start back for the summer term.

See you at the gate on Monday. X