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Happy New Year! !
We hope that you all had a lovely Christmas holiday and the children are well rested after the busy ending of last term! I hope you were all as proud of the children as we were during the nativity performances! We have got another exciting term ahead with plenty of interesting activities to keep us busy!
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This half term in Seaside base the main theme for our learning is Houses and Homes. The children will be looking at different types of houses and finding out about how houses have changed over time. The children will build model homes to create a model town and work on giving directions to travel around the town. To support our work on houses and homes at home any opportunity to look at different houses would be helpful. You can encourage your child to draw houses, look at what houses are made from, design their own homes and maybe even make an advert for your house!
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In Literacy the children will be learning about a variety of text types. We will be learning about the senses as we read and write poems about our senses. As the term progresses we will also look at traditional fairy tales and information texts. As well as literacy lessons, the children also have a daily letters and sounds session where we work on phonic knowledge to help us with reading and spelling. It would be very useful to support your child in reading with them regularly - just 10 minutes daily makes a huge difference. They can read to you, or share books with you and discuss the characters or plot. The discussion after you have read a book is so important for your child’s progression. I have put lots of ideas and questions on the reading page of the blog so have a look there for inspiration!
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Your child also has words to learn to read and spell in their green book. Please come to see me in the mornings if you would like the next set of words. All the words are also available on the blog on the ‘word wall’. Looking over known spellings is a great way to practise handwriting too. Any writing opportunities at home are great, you could get your child helping you to write letters, shopping lists or labels to go around the home.
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