Corner Exotics Visitor

You should have received a letter via email about our class visit from Simon from Corner Exotics, on Thursday 10th February. If you haven’t or would like a hard copy, please contact Mrs Lloyd in the school office.

Many thanks.

Well-done Assembly – 21.01.22

Good Afternoon.

 

Here are this week’s well-done certificates.

 

Well-done Certificates

Fireflies:

 

Grasshoppers:

 

Dragonflies:

 

Scorpions:

 

Numbots and TTRS Certificates

Numbots and TTRS certificates will be given out in class again, but… here are…

 

This week’s top three pupils (for completed levels on Numbots):

3.) Ari C (Dragonflies)

2.) Sam R (Grasshoppers)

1.) Teddy Y (Grasshoppers)

 

and…

 

This week’s top three pupils (for correctly answered questions on TTRS):

3.) Joshua W (Dragonflies)

2.) Finley P (Dragonflies)

1.) Hugo M (Scorpions)

 

School Prayer

We will finish today’s assembly with an opportunity for a quiet moment of reflection with our school prayer.

 

Dear God,

Thank you for our wonderful school.
Help us to be good learners.
Help us to look after each other.
Help us to be respectful and kind, and to make everyone welcome.
May our school be a happy, safe place – where learning is fun,
where we all work together to be the best we can be.

Amen

Happy Birthday!

Grasshoppers would like to wish some of our class a very…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Happy birthday to Callum for the 14th January

 

Happy birthday to Brooke for the 18th January

 

Happy birthday to Robin for the 19th January

Welcome back!

Welcome to the Spring term!

Happy New Year to you all, I hope you have enjoyed the Christmas break.

Please have a look at our class information page for a reminder of PE days, water bottles, reading books and other useful information.

Our topic for the Spring term is ‘Australia‘.

You can also find the curriculum overview below, on the information page.

(Click on the link below for a clearer view.)

Australia Curriculum Overview Spring term 2022

Happy birthday!

We would like to wish Callan a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Have a wonderful day. Enjoy your birthday celebrations.

A Miracle In Town!

Grasshoppers would like to present their performance of ‘A Miracle In Town!’ We have really enjoyed learning the songs and preparing the different scenes. We hope you all enjoy watching it.

We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

 

Happy birthday!

We would like to wish Jude a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Have a wonderful day. Enjoy your birthday celebrations.

Spelling Shed

Please can the children ensure that they do use Spelling Shed throughout the week to learn the phonic sounds or spelling patterns that have been taught each week.

Miss Relph sets assignments for the Year 1 children, as they have their phonic session with her.

For the Year 2 children, each spelling pattern that they have been taught in class will be set as an assignment but there are very few children accessing these, each week.

The log in details for your child will be in their blue reading record. Please get in touch if you have any problems.

Many  thanks for your support.

Happy birthday!

We would like to wish Grace a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Have a wonderful day. Enjoy your birthday celebrations.

Money Games

This week, in our maths work we have been focusing on money.  Please find below some money games that I have shown the children in class. The children were keen to play them at home and will help support their learning.

Many thanks.

Coin Calculator

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/coinCalculator/index.html

Toy Shop

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Coins Game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

Pay using 1 coin game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=payusingonecoinv3

Nativity – A Miracle In Town!

This week, the children have been given their lines to learn for our class nativity.

Please could you support your child to learn their lines. Those children with narrator parts do not need to learn their lines off by heart, but they do need to be very familiar with the words so that they can read them fluently and confidently.

Unfortunately, we will have to video our performance to be viewed online, as we did last year. We all feel very disappointed that we can’t do a proper performance, this year, but we are still having fun learning the songs and rehearsing our parts. Fingers crossed that next year we will be back on stage with an audience.

Many thanks for your support.

 

Happy Birthday!

Grasshoppers would like to wish Isla a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

We hope you enjoy your special day.

Half-term

Hello Grasshoppers!

I hope you all have a lovely half-term break! You have worked really hard the past 8 weeks and I’m looking forward to the second half of the term.

Click on the link below for a Supertato challenge, if you should wish to have a go at it!

 Supertato Half-term

Supertato & The Super-Duo Behind the Book – The Bright Emporium

Number bonds at home

Please could the children continue their learning at home by having a go at the games to help them learn their number bonds.

Click on the link below for a list of resources.

Games to help you learn your number bonds

Start with your number bonds to 10. You need to know them so you can instantly recall pairs of number that go together to make 10.

If this is tricky, find pairs of number that total 1 – 9 first.

Eg, Number bonds to make 5.

5 + 0, 0 + 5, 4 + 1, 1 + 4, 3 + 2, 2 + 3

If you are confident with these numbers try your number bonds to 20.

Year 2 children that are confident with 20 can move onto number bonds to 100.

A number bond is just a pair of numbers that go together to make a total.

 

Supertato!

If you have a spare 5 minutes, listen to the story of Supertato! We will continue working on this next week.

Watch out for those evil peas!

Supertato: The Evil Pea Rules! by Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet - The Book  Marketing Society

Happy birthday!

We would all like to wish William a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Have a lovely day and enjoy your birthday celebrations.

Year 1: Phonics Practice

The Year 1s in Fireflies and Grasshoppers have been working hard with their phonics this half term and have learnt all the following phonemes:

/ea/ /oe/ /au/ /ew/ /ay/ /ie/ /ou/  /ey/ /wh/ /ph

We have set some practice assignments up on Spelling Shed for them and it would be really helpful if they could practice at least one game daily – as little and often practice is the best way to ensure new information gets stored in the long term memory.

All children should have their Spelling Shed log-ins to access the games.

We will also be setting spelling lists for the tricky (common exception) words – and with these words, children can earn certificates with the points that they amass!  Each point they earn goes towards their “Shed Score” – and this is the total of scores for the past rolling 7-day period.

All children start as an egg and can work their way up to a Royal Bee!

Happy Birthday

The Grasshoppers would like to wish Isabel a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

We hope you have a lovely day and enjoy your birthday celebrations.

Parent Workshop – Help Your Child with Phonics and Early Reading

We are holding a parent workshop aimed to help parents of infant children with understanding and supporting their child with their learning or phonics and early reading.  It is going to be held on Microsoft Teams on Thursday 21st October at 1:30pm.

We will share the link to the meeting via email on the morning of the workshop and all you need to do if you wish to access the session is click the link.  The workshop will provide useful information on how you can support your child with their phonics learning as well as with useful strategies for supporting early reading skills.

Reading books and reading records

Please can the children bring their blue reading records and reading books into school every day.

The children read their reading books and do guided reading during the week and we need to be able to record this in their reading records.

Thank you for your support with this.

Happy birthday Maisie!

The Grasshoppers would like to wish Maisie a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY for today.

We hope you have a great day!

Happy birthday Libby!

The Grasshoppers would like to wish Libby a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY for today.

We hope you have a great birthday.

 

Handwriting

Please find below some resources that will help you support your child at home with their handwriting.

Click on the slide to enlarge it.

You will find the links on the slides underneath each slide.

https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-refiners-choice-3.html

https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-refiners-non-scheme-letters.html

https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-refiners-choice-3.html

T-L-8446-Letter-Formation-Alphabet-Handwriting-Sheet-Uppercase

Handwriting Policy

 

 

 

Well done!

Well done to George too, who has also completed the ‘Wild World Heroes’ summer reading challenge.

Happy Birthday!

Grasshoppers would like to wish Thea a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

We hope you have a lovely day and enjoy your birthday celebrations.

‘Paint the Squares’ resource

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

This is a great resource for the children to use at home. It will support them to become familiar with number order, forwards and backwards and to explore number patterns.

You can select which number you would like the number square to go up to and increase it as they become more confident.

There are also games to play in the ‘Pick a puzzle’ box.

Forest School

We are very pleased that Year 1 and Year 2 children can take part in Forest School again.

Forest School for Grasshoppers will take place on a Monday afternoon.

All children should continue to come to school in their PE kit on a Monday as the other half of the class will be doing PE.

Those children doing Forest school will wear their PE kit. Waterproofs and wellies will be provided by school.

The Year 1 children have been to Forest School today and the Year 2 children will go next Monday, we will then continue to alternate it.

Well done!

Well done to Millie-Ann and Poppy-Mae for completing the ‘Wild World Heroes’ summer reading challenge.

They received a certificate and a gold medal.
Great reading, girls!

Spelling Shed & Numbots/Times Table Rock Stars

As part of your child’s homework they will have access to Spelling Shed, Numbots and Times Table Rock Stars.

Your child has their log in details for these games in the front of their yellow reading records.

Numbots and Times Table Rock Stars have the same log in details.

Children in Year 1 can use Numbots and after Christmas Year 2 children can begin to use TTRS as well.

Spelling Shed will help your child learn the ‘Common Exception’ words that they need to be able to read and spell by the end of Key Stage 1. It will also help to support them with spelling words containing all the sounds and letter patterns from Phases 2 – 6.

https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/

https://play.numbots.com/

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

I can see how many times each child has accessed these games throughout the week and so will check on a Thursday that children are completing Spelling Shed and Numbots.

If you have any problems accessing any of the games, please get in touch.

grasshoppers@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk