Christmas

 

We will be decorating our classroom ready for Christmas next week, if you have any old decorations that you will not be using, we would be grateful if you could donate them to the class.

 

We will also be creating a Winter Wonderland role play area, if you have any polar bear, penguin, winter animals teddies that the children could play with again this would be appreciated if you could loan these to the class.

 

Thank you

 

 

Maths

 

Today in maths, the class were counting objects and then selecting the correct  numeral.
The children carried on their learning during continuous provision.

 Counting different objects and picking up the numeral cards.


 

Mud Kitchen

The Mud Kitchen

 

 

Reception enjoyed free flowing into the Mud Kitchen and Gardening area.

We also sent up a maths table, and reading area and a writing table for the children to access more areas in the outdoor classroom.

 

Read Write Inc

 

The children are learning the following sounds this week:

h

sh

 

They will also have word time lessons, where they practice using their sound knowledge to blend for reading words including cat, kit, hit, get, got, up, on.

 

 

Read Write Inc

 

Thought I would re blog the link to the Read Write Inc. website:

http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/resources/

 

Thi should take you directly to the parents information page, it has lots of information about the program and how you can help your child develop their reading and writing at home.  

 

The link below is a video on how to pronounce the sounds correctly.  

 

http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/resources/sound-pronunciation-guide/

 

 

 

The Christmas Show

I have emailed everyone with a costume letter, just to let you know the date.
The show will be on 20th December, doors open at 1.30pm.
If your child will not be in school on the 20th please can you let me know.

Thank you

 

Literacy Focus

 

This weeks Literacy focus is:

Journeys

 

The children will be talking about journeys they´ve made, local and long distance. We will be reading books by Anthony Browne and John Burningham to explore and write about fantasy journeys.

 

Below are two of our favourite stories about going on a journey. 

 

   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyI6ykDwds&t=19s

We´re going on a bear hunt

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97YpQXa6rmc

Mr Grumpy´s outing

Challenge Word of the Week

This week Challenge Word of the Week is: up

Below is a link to a YouTube song to help them remember the word.

 



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LFIWrh_Ch0

 

 

Read Write Inc

 

This week the class will be introduced to 3 new sounds

 

f - ffffflower is a stretchy sound

e - e-e-e-egg is a bouncy sound

l - llllleg is a stretchy sound

 

To help them to write the sound the rhymes are as follows:

 

f - down the stem and draw the leaves

e - lift off the top of the and scoop out the egg

l - down the long leg

 

 

Maths focus

 

This weeks maths focus the class will be exploring length and height, using the language associated with comparing and measuring. They will also begin to explore capacity using the terminology ʻemptyʼ, ʻhalf fullʻ and ʻfullʼ. They compare the capacities of different containers and explore capacities through play.

Today we started ordering by length, introducing the vocabulary longest/longer and shortest/shorter.

Throughout the day the class were given the opportunity to use different objects around the room such as the play dough, the train track, the building blocks, interlocking cubes, etc to create longer and shortest lengths. A third length was then added for the children to order correctly.

 

Reading books

I sent home reading books before the half term, but as I was in the UK and then Lizzy returning today, we have not had a chance to change their reading books.
From next week, a box will be next to the snack box and on Thursday could you put your child’s reading book and dairy into the box and then we will change them and send a new one h9me on Friday.

I will also put a box for message books, if on a daily basis you put the message book into the box so that I can read and messages you have put in and they are there for me to write any messages in for that day.

Thank you

Miss Lizzy

Welcome back Miss Lizzy

You may have noticed that Miss Lizzy is back to school today.

I’m sure you will all welcome her back after her painful knee problem.

Maths Focus

 

This weeks maths focus is

Recognising the number of dots on a dice and writing the correct numeral.
and splitting 5 monsters into 2 groups (different addition ways of making 5)

Below is a link of a song on YouTube to help them learn the different ways to make 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwkMHrhzeKc

Read Write Inc

 

This week we have been learning two sounds are: o and c, they have been practising all previous sounds they have learnt and then practising their blending for reading and writing.

 

To help them write the sounds the rhyme is

o - all around the orange

c - curl around the caterpillar

 

The words that they have been blending and segmenting for reading and writing are:

in, on, it, an, and, pin, pat, got, dog, sit, tip, pan, dig, top.

 

 

 

Message books

I will be sending home message books from today, which I will write in if your child has any accidents, if they have not eaten much, etc.

As many children attend after school clubs, and do not see myself at the end of the day I would like to ensure that messages do get passed on.

I will only write in the books if information needs to be passed on, if your child has had no incidents/accidents, etc then I will not write in these books.

These books are also a way of communication information from home, for example if someone different will collect your child, if they have been unwell the previous night, etc again so that if you do not see me to tell me I can read it and am aware of such things.

Miss Liz

Just a quick update on Miss Liz, she is still under physiotherapy on a daily basis, but unfortunately they have not been able to manipulate her knee back into place.

The specialised has said that it will be a minimum of 2 more weeks before she may be able to return to school.

I have sent her all all you well wishes on a speedy recovery and return to school.

Miss Maria will continue to cover to ensure consistency within the class.