Rabbits' blog 22
Date: 20th Jul 2024 @ 7:28am
Friday 19th July
I know the academic year has not finished for teachers and we will have a lot to do next week, it feels like a finish. It was a great finish. The whole last 2 weeks were extraordinarily positive and I tried to capture the moments of pure pride I felt looking at the Remarkable Rabbits doing something that marked their personal progress this year. It might have been independently getting on with a task (without needing reminding or further support), making a friendship problem better not bigger or just applying themselves because they wanted to grow their brain. #SOProud
Of course, not all the credit is mine and Mrs Woods. Your support is fundamental in their success at school and all those Little Wandle or split vowel digraph or number bonds moments made all the difference. Year 2 is often looked at as the year of big academic progress and I hope it is because every single one of my Remarkable Rabbits has exceeded targets in one way or another.
I will still be around for them. I will see them daily in Worship and when I am on playground duty. We will be doing Nativity together, trips etc. And my transition notes have been very comprehensive as you can imagine! They’ve already promised me that they won’t thunder down the corridor next year on their way to the playground as we didn’t like it when other classes disturbed our learning. Oh it’s so hard to let them go!
Thank you again for the thoughtfulness and generosity of your gifts. And some of the notes you and they wrote- I was a little overwhelmed! I will enjoy reading those again and again over the next week or so…and then I have a big holiday with my girl to prepare for (Canada to crash with my cousin) so I wish you all very well and keeeeeeeeeeeep reading!
Holiday self entertainment ideas:
- Shut the box (paper copy)
- Doubles wipeout
- Hangman
- Reading anything, anywhere (road signs, cereal boxes, house numbers and names, tickets)
- Use their Reading Records to revise their Year 1/phase 5 GPCs. (the pictorial section in the middle)
- Finish 'The Enchanted Wood'. We got to Mr Oom Boom Boom
- Copy write anything! (Some are still writing a couple of graphemes incorrectly so stamp on this like I have.)
- Create a memory box diary of part of the holiday. It doesn’t have to be daily. They could create their own Ray of the Day?
- Counting on and back in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s to 100. Just as you’re walking around, count; as you go up and down stairs, count; as you’re waiting in a queue, count.
- Looking at (to revise) and counting coins. We didn't do notes (didn't have any!!) so that could be an exciting for you to show.
And ask them every night, what have you done today that’s made you feel proud? (It might take a couple of weeks before they can answer so in the meantime, provide them with your reasons for them having made you feel proud.)
Thank you for being Remarkable.
Signing off…
Mrs H
p.s. I’ll be refreshing the class page in a week or 2 FYI.
