This week has been another busy week! We have been working really hard on our nativity play. The children have practised their singing, drama skills, saying their lines and remembering when it is their turn to get up and come to the front of the stage.
Some of the children have lines to learn and we would really appreciate your help with practising these at home. The children are all doing really well and we hope you're looking forward to seeing the performance.
We have started teaching phonics this week. The children have learnt i, l, c, o and t this week. There is an action and a story to go with each sound and there is a sheet in each child's book bag so that they are able to practise their sounds at home.
We have continued to develop our gross and fine motor skills by doing squiggle. We have been doing circle shapes and revising lines from top to bottom and left to right.
In maths we have been comparing groups and saying which have more or fewer in them. We have been looking at a number line with a missing number and working out what that number is by counting forwards.
The children have also been learning through play and have had a great time trying to rescue numbers that had been frozen in blocks of ice. They had to find out how to melt the ice and get the number out. They really persevered with this activity and had fun trying!
Friday 27 November 2015
Friday 20 November 2015
Week Ending 20.11.15
In maths this week we have been working on 2D and 3D shapes - the children have learnt the names of the shapes and we have talked about their properties. We went on a shape walk around the school to see which shapes we could find in the outside environment.
In English we have been continuing to work on rhyming and we have played eye spy to encourage the children to think of the sound a word begins with. We have also been doing some oral blending so saying the sounds and asking the children to blend the sounds together to make a word, e.g. c-a-t = cat.
We have cast the nativity play and we have done a few walk throughs. You don't need to worry about costumes as we have these in school. Any children that have lines to learn will get them in their book bags next week to practise at home. Thanks for your help with this!
We have also starting writing names with the children and these will come home next week to practise too.
In English we have been continuing to work on rhyming and we have played eye spy to encourage the children to think of the sound a word begins with. We have also been doing some oral blending so saying the sounds and asking the children to blend the sounds together to make a word, e.g. c-a-t = cat.
We have cast the nativity play and we have done a few walk throughs. You don't need to worry about costumes as we have these in school. Any children that have lines to learn will get them in their book bags next week to practise at home. Thanks for your help with this!
We have also starting writing names with the children and these will come home next week to practise too.
Friday 13 November 2015
Week Ending 13.11.15
This week we have been artists! The children have all done a self-portrait painting which are displayed in the classroom - please feel free to come and have a look! They were very good at selecting the correct colour and using the paintbrush properly. We looked very closely at each others faces and then we looked in mirrors to help us know what we had to paint and the colours we needed to use.
We have been continuing to do rhyming activities and alliteration. The children enjoyed making their names alliterative! We have been testing our memories playing memory games too.
In maths we have been focusing on counting accurately.
We have been continuing to do rhyming activities and alliteration. The children enjoyed making their names alliterative! We have been testing our memories playing memory games too.
In maths we have been focusing on counting accurately.
Friday 6 November 2015
Week ending 6.11.15
We hope you all had a lovely half term holiday - it's been a busy first week back at school!
Now that we have done all the initial assessments of the children to find out what they know and can do, we have started to do more focused work.
We have been practising counting this week. At the moment we are counting forwards from one. We have been counting objects and have taught the children to line objects up and touch each object as we say the number to be really accurate. We also have counted jumps and claps.
We have been working on rhyming by saying a word and thinking of words that rhyme with that word. we have had some weird and wonderful made up words too!
We have started squiggle this week we have been working on up and down and left to right/right to left lines. this is to encourage the formation of letters when we start teaching the phonics.
As Bonfire night fell on Thursday we created our own firework picture on the ground outside by choosing different coloured powder paint and throwing it on the ground to make firework shapes. The children then came up with describing words to do with fireworks.
we have also started doing big talk where the children have a talk topic to discuss with the person next to them and then they share their sentence with the whole class verbalising the full stop at the end.
Thank you for all your support of donations of cakes, toys and books for our sale - we raised £140 which has paid for a dolls house and the rest of the money will go towards developing our outside area.
Now that we have done all the initial assessments of the children to find out what they know and can do, we have started to do more focused work.
We have been practising counting this week. At the moment we are counting forwards from one. We have been counting objects and have taught the children to line objects up and touch each object as we say the number to be really accurate. We also have counted jumps and claps.
We have been working on rhyming by saying a word and thinking of words that rhyme with that word. we have had some weird and wonderful made up words too!
We have started squiggle this week we have been working on up and down and left to right/right to left lines. this is to encourage the formation of letters when we start teaching the phonics.
As Bonfire night fell on Thursday we created our own firework picture on the ground outside by choosing different coloured powder paint and throwing it on the ground to make firework shapes. The children then came up with describing words to do with fireworks.
we have also started doing big talk where the children have a talk topic to discuss with the person next to them and then they share their sentence with the whole class verbalising the full stop at the end.
Thank you for all your support of donations of cakes, toys and books for our sale - we raised £140 which has paid for a dolls house and the rest of the money will go towards developing our outside area.
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