Christmas

This week we have been

Reading the Christmas nativity story. We have been learning that we celebrate Christmas day because it’s Baby Jesus’s birthday! We have been telling the story using the stable and the figures, we have been acting out the story using the masks, we have used the big book and the story cards to retell the story and we also watched the Christmas story video.

In phonics this week we have been focusing on alliteration, the children have enjoyed matching the pictures to the initial sounds from the board.

In maths this week we have been with reviewing the numbers 0 to 10. We watched Numberblocks, 10 green bottles and then we all practiced writing and matching the numbers one to 10.

This week we have also started our Christmas workshop. The children have been drawing pictures and making presents for people that they care for. They have then been putting them into boxes, wrapping them up and putting a special label on them ready for Christmas Day

Next week we will be

• Continuing our Christmas learning, focusing on the Nativity.
• Exploring the Gingerbread man.
• Reviewing numbers 0 to 10 and 2-D shapes.
• Preparing for our Nativity.

Messages Home

Friday the 13th December will be our early years nativity. We would like to remind you that we would like the children to wear black to school for that day, as plain black as she can get please. We aim to start at 9:30am we  hope you can make it! We will be sitting on the right side of the hall.

Thank you for your support Mrs Herne and Mrs Cini

People who help us – Police services

This week we have been

Learning about the police service. We have been reading stories and exploring non-fiction books all about the police. We have also been acting as police officers and helping to save people. We made our own jail the children dressed up as police officers and we even had handcuffs! The children enjoyed drawing pictures of police officers and building their own police officer pictures. We have bee talking about what a police officer needs to do his job.

In maths this week we read a story called ‘one is a snail and 10 is a crab’ it’s a counting Legs story. The children were able to count to 10 using the pictures in the book to help them. We were also talking about 10 and 10 making 20. This week we have also been learning about the number 10 using the number-blocks. 

As we were learning about the police service this week we were also thinking about light and dark. We spoke about the kind of jobs the policeman have to do when it’s light and when it’s dark. We explored the torches in a dark area and we made light and dark colours on the creative table.

This week in RE we were learning about why we light candles when we go to church and when we do our prayers in school. We know now that it’s so that Jesus knows that we are speaking to him and that we are thinking about him. The children made their own candles using card rolls and tissue paper.

Next week we will be

• Starting our Christmas celebrations.
• Learning the real reason for Christmas by reading and exploring the Nativity story in all areas of the classroom.
• We will be reviewing numbers one to 10.
• Focusing on fine motor skills activities.

Messages Home

Please ensure that the children are bringing their reading books, their home learning and their rhyme books back to school. We love to celebrate the children’s learning and it’s very important for the children that they continue to do these every week when we send them home.

Just a reminder on Friday the 13th will be our Early years nativity. The children would love for you to come and watch them join in with the celebrations. Can we ask that the children come to school wearing black for the day.

Thank you for your support, Mrs Herne and Mrs Cini

People who help us – firefighters

This week we have been

Learning about firefighters. We have been reading stories and looking at non-fiction books about firefighters. We have been role-playing being a firefighter and acting out being a firefighter using our small world fire station. The children have been drawing their own fire engines using simple shapes. We had lots of fun in the water tray this week using the soap pumps to squirt water at the fire that was in our princess house!

Our rhyme this week was Jack and Jill. Not many of the children knew the rhyme Jack and Jill so we used Jack and Jill in different ways. We read the song, we sang the song and we also played instruments to this song during our music lesson. We hope that you enjoy singing the song at home. 

In maths this week we have been exploring long and short. We have been using the fire engines and comparing which ones are longer and which ones are shorter. We have also been looking at different ways of sorting objects, we sorted fire engines by colour. We have also been learning the number nine.

In RE this week we have been learning about the holy communion that people take in church. The children know that the wine is Jesus’s blood and the bread is Jesus’s body. We role-played having bread and wine when we are in church, we did the sign of the cross first and then we took the holy communion. (Please note we used juice and bread!)

During our bucket time this week we were exploring shaving foam. The children had a lot of fun in the water tray exploring shaving foam!

The children may have come home singing Christmas songs this week. We have been focusing on our nativity and we really hope the children are enjoying singing the songs to you at home. You would have had a letter home this week explaining that our nativity will be on the Friday 13th of December at around 9:30. We would like the children to come dressed to school in plain black for the day, we are going to sparkle up the children and make them into stars.

Next week we will be

• Learning about the police service.
• Learning the number 10.
• Matching numbers and counting using legs.
• Learning about lighting a candle in church.
• Being safe online.

Messages Home

Please ensure that the children’s green rhyme books are returned to school by Wednesday. This will ensure we can get them ready for Friday.

Thank you for your support Mrs Herne  and Mrs Cini.

People who help us

This week we have been

Learning about the jobs you do as a postman. We have been writing postcards and writing our own letters, we have been posting them into the postbox. Next week we will be exploring delivering these letters to different areas of the classroom.

Our rhyme this week was Hickory Dickory Dock. The children have had fun using the toy clock and a mouse to retell the rhyme, we also sang a song during our phonics called Hickory Dickory dong. We spoke about rhyming words and we also looked at the numbers on the clock. We have also been making mice on the play-dough table, building our own clocks using the building blocks and explored playing musical instruments to this song Hickory Dickory dock.

In maths this week we have been looking at coins. We have explored the 1p coin, the 2p coin, the 5p coin and the 10p coin. The children have been identifying the coins and sorting them into groups. we have also been learning about the number eight.

In science this week we have been re-visiting high and low. We watched Kit and Pup and explored what high was and what low was. We enjoyed making high and low movements with our bodies and high and low sounds without mouths.

In RE this week we have taken part in our remembrance assembly. We took along our cross and wreath and we all wore our poppy’s. We will always remember them. We have also been exploring and learning about your church. we have looked at pictures and a model of the church to see what’s inside. We also know that a church always has a cross on it so when we are outside we know which buildings are churches.

This week we have read the story The colour monster. The colour monster has many colours and many feelings. We were looking at what each colour means, the children drew and coloured their own colour monsters, all feelings are ok!

Next week we will be

• Learning about a firefighter and the jobs they do.
• Sorting objects into groups and learning the number nine.
• Learning about holy communion and holy bread.
• Continue our learning about the colour monster.
• Exploring long and short.
• Exploring the rhyme Jack and Jill.

Messages Home

We would like to send a small reminder about how important it is for the children to change their reading books. Not many children are changing their books and it’s such an important part of the children’s development. We encourage you to change your reading book as much as possible, we are happy to change books every day if the children are reading their books at home. Please remember to put them in the yellow basket outside and we will change them.

Just a little reminder about the children’s green rhyme books. We would like them returned by by Wednesday each week so we can prepare them for the following week. Please also encourage the children to colour the sheet after they have read the rhyme.

Thank you for your support Mrs Herne  and Mrs Cini

People who help us – Supermarket

(Photos to follow on Monday!)

This week we have been:

Learning about the jobs people do in a supermarket. We have been playing supermarkets and sorting out different foods in the water tray. we have also been writing our own shopping lists and talking about the foods that we would buy from the shops. We read the stories ‘Supermarket Zoo’ and ‘Maisie goes shopping’ and looked at non-fiction books.

In maths this week we have been thinking about counting how many coins we need and how many 1p coins we have when we buy our food. We have also been learning about the number seven.

In RE this week we have been learning about remembrance. we have made our own poppies and a wreath for the remembrance assembly.

in science this week we have been exploring wet and dry. we watched Kit and Pup and then we explored what happens to materials when they are wet and dry. we explored if materials could be used if they were wet and dry

Next week we will be:

• Learning about the post office.
• Exploring Hickory Dickory Dock.
• Learning the number eight.
• Learning about the church and what is inside a church.

Messages Home

We really enjoy sharing the children’s learning that they have been doing at home. Please ensure that the children return their home learning and if they do anything you are proud of please send us a proud crowd so we can celebrate this in class.

Thank you for your support, Mrs Herne and Mrs Cini

People who help us

This week we have been:

Learning about all the different people that help us. We read a story called ‘Career day’ which explained about lots of different jobs we can do when we grow up. We are going to be looking at all different jobs that we can do when we are older over the next few weeks. This week we focused on the builder, a few of us used the resources from the collage table to collage a builder.

Our rhymes this week were ‘The wheels on the bus’ and ‘Old MacDonald had a farm’. We have been using the resources to help us sing the songs together, we hope you enjoy singing them in your rhyme books this week.

In maths this week we have been learning about the names and properties of 2-D shapes. We spoke about what they look like and how to draw them and the children have had fun matching pictures in puzzles to different 2-D shapes. We have also been making 2-D shapes using the cutters on the play-dough table and making 2-D shape moulds in the wet sand. We have also been learning about the number six using the Numberblocks.

In science this week we have been learning about fast and slow. We used the marble run in the water trays inside and outside to demonstrate fast and slow, we also took fast and slow to the hall and explored racing fast and racing slow.

In RE this week we have been learning about the festival of Diwali. We watched and read the story of ‘Rama and Sita’, we learnt a Diwali dance, we drew henna patterns on hands, we made rangoli patterns and we made our own diva lamps. we will be sending these home with the children on Monday, we hope you enjoy them.

This week we have been learning about ourselves, our bodies and knowing we can say NO! We watched nspcc’s Pantosaurus and read the book ‘Pants’. We know if someone asks to see our pants we should say NO and tell someone we trust.  We had fun designing our own pant pictures.

Next week we will be:

• Learning about the people who help us in the supermarket.
• Learning about coins that you would use in a supermarket.
• Writing our own shopping lists.
• Learning about remembrance.

Messages Home

Parent consultations have now been rescheduled for Wednesday, the 6th of November please ensure you book your appointment.

Please ensure that the children are changing their books on a regular basis, it’s very important for the children to hear stories and develop story language.

Thank you for all your support Mrs Herne  and Mrs Cini

Ourselves

This week we have been:

Learning about Black history by reading the story ‘Dream big little leader’. We have been making statues like Augusta, designing artwork like Alma and when we went to the hall for PE we were pretending to be Wilma and Tessa. We also played a song called ‘You’ve got that power’ and the children understand that you need the power to do the best you can.

In maths this week we have been learning the number five. We have also been learning about the one penny coin. We have been counting how many pennies we have and we have been making lines of coins and seeing who has the longest line.

In RE this week we read the story ‘Feeding the 5000’. Jesus had two fish and five loaves and he managed to feed thousands of people with such little food. We shared out our fish and loaves and we had lots of food left over! We have also read the story ‘Where is Buddha?’ We have been thinking about Buddhism and who Buddhists believe in. We spoke about Jesus being our God and the Buddha being a Buddhists God. We also coloured some pictures of Buddha.

In science this week we have been thinking about floating and sinking. We use Kit and Pup to explore what floating and sinking was and then we had ago ourselves in the water tray. Please explore floating and sinking at home maybe when the children are in the bath!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bc29rr/kit-pup-series-1-7-floating-and-sinking

After half term we will be:

• Learning about the people that help us.
• We will be singing the ‘Wheels on the bus’ and ‘Old Macdonald had a farm’.
• Learning about 2-D shapes and the number 6 using Number blocks.
• Learning about the church, lighting a candle and taking communion.

Messages Home

I am very sorry about the cancellation of our parent consultations on Wednesday, these will be rescheduled for after half term, I am really looking forward to meeting all of you.

After the half term I will be sending home weekly homework sheets for the children. All of the children are currently working on their fine motor skills and how to hold a pencil so this is what our homework will be focusing on. A big part of the children’s fine motor skill development is playing with small objects. For example using small blocks, playing with lego, putting money in a money box, threading beads, clipping paper clips together, popping bubble wrap and scrunching paper. It would be great if you could encourage this at home. We will be sending home a small tub of play-dough with a sheet of skills the children can do. This will really help to strengthen those fine motor skills.

Thank you for your support Mrs Herne  and Mrs Cini

Ourselves

This week we have been:

Thinking about keeping our bodies clean. We read the story ‘I don’t want to wash my hands’. We washed our hands together using soap and water. We spoke about germs on our hands, we cannot see them! The children drew pictures of what they think germs look like. We also had fun playing Doctors!

In maths this week we have been learning about the number 4, the children have been writing their own number 4 in the maths area. We have also been continuing our learning about things that we like, the children made a chart of our favourite fruit and we noticed that strawberries were our favourite fruit because they have the most. We also explored the shape of blocks, we used the words big and small and then made different structures using the blocks, thinking about the shapes we needed.

In science this week we have been learning about full and empty, we used the water tray and the sand tray to fill up bottles. We were able to show each other full empty and half full. We enjoyed using the funnels and scoops to help us!

In RE this week we read a story called ‘God made us this way’, the children explored all the different features that people can have and that we are all individual.

In phonics and music this week we have been looking at instruments and the sounds they make, we have had lots of fun exploring scraping, drumming and shaking. We have also explored making rain Sounds using different musical instruments in the music room.

Next week we will be:

• Thinking about black history month by reading the story ‘Dream big little leader’, we will be exploring this book in all areas of the classroom.
• Learning the number five.
• Learning about pennies.
• Reading the Bible story ‘God fed the 5000’.

Messages home

We hope you are enjoying your rhyme books at home, we would like to ask that they are returned to school by Wednesday so we can get them ready for you for the Friday. Please put them in the green basket outside the classroom door.

We have noticed not many children are changing their reading books, it’s a very important part of the children’s development to be listening and hearing stories. We would encourage you to be reading with the children at least once a week.

Thank you for your support, Mrs Herne and Mrs Cini

Fantasy – Pirates

Over the past few days we have been:

Our theme this week was pirates. We started watching Peter Pan one last week and all the children requested that they watch Peter Pan 2 ‘Return to Neverland’. We have been watching a bit each day and the children have really enjoyed the adventures of Captain Hook and Peter Pan.

In maths this week have been thinking about money. We have be counting how many coins are in the treasure chest and solving simple money problems. Use this link so you can explore money at home. 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

This week we enjoyed our last PE session of the year. We chose what we wanted to do. We played the traffic light game, the bean game, we did some races, we played with the parachute and we played at duck, duck goose.

In science this week we have been thinking about volcanoes. We have been using Coke and Mentos to make our own volcano outside!

We have been preparing ourselves for our move to reception. We have been talking about things we are looking forward too and things that we are worried about.

We also enjoyed our class party together, we danced, eat food and played party games.

We would like to thank you for an amazing year and for your lovely gifts. We have had a great year with your children and we hope that you have a very enjoyable and relaxing summer holiday. We look forward to seeing you and the children in September when they are in reception.

Mrs Herne,  Mrs Huter and Mrs Woode