Thursday 28th March

 Thursday 28th March



Welcome to our last blog before the Easter holidays. This week we have been busy doing doing lots of Easter activities in school..  There is no set homework over the next 2 week break but we hope that the children will continue to read regularly with you at home.  We wish you all a lovely break with your families.


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We have been learning about Easter through the concept of 'new life'.  First, we discussed when / where we have seen signs of new life e.g. new buds on trees, spring flowers.  We talked about the signs of spring - lambs being born and chicks hatching.  Then we learnt what Christians believe about new life and Jesus at Easter.
We enjoyed making our Easter cards.

Phonics
This week in phonics, we have learnt the phonemes 'or' and 'ur'.

We also learnt the tricky words 'you' as well as recapping all previously learnt tricky words.

Maths
In Maths this week, we have been learning the names and properties of a range of 3D shapes - cube, cone, cylinder, cuboid, pyramid and sphere.
We have named each of the shapes and looked at their properties such as how many faces each 3D shape has and what shape are those faces e.g. a cube as 6 square faces.



Reading challenge
Well done to those children who have brought in their reading challenge and collected their sticker and book mark.  Please continue this challenge over the Easter break.


We have also enjoyed lots of other Easter activities.  For example, painting pictures of spring / new life, making Easter chicks and bunnies, decorating Easter eggs and learning to sing some Easter songs.

We wish you all a lovely Easter holiday with your families.





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