We've been using our phonics knowledge of short vowels lately to learn about different alternative spellings : ck, double consonants and now magic e. Please see the lesson book for the full explanation. There are a host of videos online about magic e/ silent e/ super e...on Studyladder the activities are called bossy e - it all comes down to the same thing. An e at the end of a word can make a short vowel into a long one/ make it say it's name. There are lists of words in the lesson book to help practise the concept.
We also learnt some grammar this week: about nouns. Again there is a lesson in the yellow notebooks to review. We know that a noun is a person, place or thing and that when a noun is the name of a person, place or thing we need to give it a Capital letter. I've just added studyladder tasks on the subject.
In Questioning the World, we've moved on to Matter. I introduced the subject in CP2 today, it'll be tomorrow with CP1. The main idea for the moment is to remember that everything in the world is made of matter. We'll be working on it further over the next two weeks.
In Maths, the timed maths exercises are going well - again with each child progressing at their own pace. From next week, we'll be applying those number skills to problem solving.
Keep up the reviewing at home - 15 minutes a night makes a big difference. If your kids have time for studyladder, do also keep it up, it's another way of reviewing what we are doing in class.