Dear Parents - This week we are making links with our previous learning about the life cycle of a frog and learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. Our text is Eric Carle's ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. The following week we will be learning about Eric Carle as an author and illustrator, and using several of his other books, so no need for you to focus upon that this week. Just do what you can. If you cannot do anything on the slides remember simple things like asking your child to say the date on their calendar and by them hearing you use the language of time throughout the day e.g. before, after, morning, afternoon, evening, tomorrow, yesterday, today, in 20 minutes, in one hour and the o’clock times, is very valuable maths. It is great to see that more and more of you are being led by your child's needs, abilities and levels of interest and motivation. Please continue to pick and choose from the slides rather than trying to do them all. If your child was really getting the hang of tens and ones or cvcc words, for example, focus upon these rather than moving on to something else. Or if you feel they need more simple counting and practical adding and taking away do this rather than symmetry. You are their teachers and we are so pleased with the progress and enthusiasm we are seeing. Thank you. We are very sorry that we are gradually adding more things you can choose to do on a screen. (PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY MEANS OF ACCESSING THESE WITH YOUR CHILD). This is mainly because several of you are asking how to keep your child's reading going and also because there are many resources available that are at different levels so you can select the best level to match your child's ability. The two websites we recommend you taking time to come a bit familiar with (if you haven't already) are Twinkl and Espresso. We are all on hand to help you. Just add an observation to your child's Tapestry journal, that way ONLY staff will see what you write, and we will respond in the best way we can. Best wishes from Mrs Rose, Mrs Batty and team. The text in red is for your information. You DO NOT need to read this to your child. Where quotation marks ‘....’ are used please use the same language with your child. The text in pink are suggested extension activities if you feel your child would like more work to do or they are achieving the set tasks quickly and easily and therefore need stretching.
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