Traditional tales

This week we have been:

Reading the story ‘The three little pigs’. We have explored the story in many different ways, we have been retelling the story, we have been building houses for the pigs, we have been making our own houses and pigs for the creative display, we have been making pigs at the playdough table and we have had lots of fun retelling the story and using the story language. The children have really enjoyed watching this version of the story!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl5rvGmwBfk

In math’s this week we have been thinking about ty and teen when we are saying the numbers. We have been looking at teen numbers and then we explored numbers from 10 to 100. When it has zero its ‘ty’ and when it has a 1 its ‘teen’. We have also been exploring making simple calculations using cubes, please watch this Numberblocks video at home with the children. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0blsv9r/numberblocks-series-3-fruit-salad

In RE this week we have been learning about God’s first family. We recapped over our learning about how God made the world. God also made Adam and Eve, Adam and Eve lived in the garden of Eden but they did not listen very well to God’s instructions. They ate from the tree of knowledge and God was not very happy. Adam and Eve thought they would make God happy by giving him the first family. Adam and Eve’s sons were called Kane and Abel, we painted pictures of Gods first family please come and have a look!

In science this week we have been learning about the life-cycle of a caterpillar. Mrs Herne ordered some caterpillars online and they came this week, we have been watching them grow and we are going to see what happens to them! We have learnt that a caterpillar comes from an egg and then it will turn into a cocoon and then it will transform into a butterfly the butterfly will then lay his egg and the cycle starts all over again. We have had lots of fun this week with the story ‘The very hungry Caterpillar’, we have been retelling the story and we have been busy making our own hungry caterpillars.

Next week we will be:

• Reading the stories ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’ and ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’.
• Exploring size using Goldilocks and the three bears.
• Exploring hot and cold.
• Learning about how Jesus loves me.

Messages home

Although the weather may be getting warmer we would still like the children have a jacket when they are in school. We never know what the weather might do and we do use the outdoor area so it’s important we can go out there whatever the weather!

Phonics home learning – We would like the children to practice writing the sounds(s) that are on the sheet as well as colouring the pictures if your child’s sheet has any. Please return them to school so we can celebrate with the children.

Thank you for your ongoing support Mrs Herne, Mrs Cini  and Mrs Woode

Easter

This week we have been:

Finishing off our learning about Easter Holy week. We have had lots of fun role-playing the story and then watching the story in our Easter assembly. We have really enjoyed experiencing and learning about Easter at St Cyprians, it has been lots of fun and we’ve learnt a lot. As you will see the children have taken home all of the Easter learning this week, we hope you enjoy exploring the Easter bag with the children and that they are able to tell you what they did and why!

After half term we will be:

• Learning about and exploring traditional tales, starting with ‘The Three Little Pigs’.
• Learning about ty and teen when thinking about our numbers.
• Learning about The life-cycle of a caterpillar.
• Learning about God’s first family.

We hope you all have a relaxing Easter break, we are really looking forward to our next topic of traditional tales. Work in progress!

Thank you for your support Mrs Herne, Mrs Cini and Mrs Woode

Easter

This week we have been:

Learning about Easter by reading the Holy week story. We have learnt about Palm Sunday, Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday and Holy Wednesday so far, we will be continuing this learning next week. We have been role-playing each day and talking about the story. We have been making lots Easter things ready for us to take home! We have been making Easter bags, Easter baskets, eggcups, epitaphons and our Easter cards. We had lots of fun this week making Easter cookies, we shaped them like bunnies we hope the children enjoyed them.

In maths this week we re-visited our flat 2-D shapes learning. We played a quiz on the board to see if we could name the shape that was hidden, we all did really well and we were able to name all of the shapes! We have also been learning the number 20 using the Numberblocks.

We have been learning about and celebrating Mother’s Day this week. We have been thinking about all of the ladies and females that are in our lives that we love and care for. We have been thinking about all  the things they do for us, we have been busy making Mother’s Day  cards and we enjoyed learning the special Mother’s Day song!

Next week we will:

• Continue our learning about Easter and celebrating Jesus coming back to life.
• Exploring 3-D shapes

Messages home

We break up for our Easter holidays on Friday 4th April. All nursery children will finish at 11:50am, the rest of the school finish at 2:15pm.

Thank you for your support Mrs Herne, Mrs Cini and Mrs Woode

Dinosaurs – What do they eat?

This week we have been:

This week we read a story called ‘Tyrannosaurus drip’, it was all about what dinosaurs eat. We learnt that some dinosaurs eat meat and some dinosaurs eat veg. We have been exploring this in the writing area and drawing pictures of the food that dinosaurs might eat. We finished our dinosaur rhyme this week by learning about the stegosaurus and triceratops we hope you’ve had great fun reading these in your rhyme book with the children.

In phonics this week we have started learning the sounds of the letters. This week some of the children focused on the sounds m and a and some of the children focused on m, a, s and d. We are sending home a worksheet so the children can continue this learning at home.

In maths this week we have been thinking about different sized food linked to what dinosaurs might eat. We focused on big, medium and small. We have also been learning the number 19 using the Numberblocks. 

In RE this week we have been learning about the Annunciation of Theotokos. We looked at the icon and spoke about the picture. The picture shows the angel going to Mary and telling Mary that she was going to have a baby. This baby would be the son of God and he would be born at Christmas this is why we celebrate Christmas.

In science this week we have continued with our rainbow learning. We used baking powder and vinegar to make our own fizzy rainbows. We have also been focusing on waterproof and not waterproof. We have been making our own umbrella and thinking about which materials we should use, we have been testing them in the water and then we made an umbrella using the materials that worked.

This week we have finished our learning about dinosaurs by going on a dinosaur hunt at Crystal Palace park. We spotted all the dinosaurs on the list and had a great time walking around the lake. We will be sending home our dinosaur learning this week, we hope you enjoy sharing this learning with your children at home.

Next week we will be

• Starting our learning about the Easter story and Holy Week.
• Continuing and learning about 2-D shapes.
• Exploring capacity in the water.

Messages home

As you would be aware the Easter lunch is soon approaching, please ensure that you return your slips back to us so we are aware of the children who are going into the hall for lunch at 11:30 with their parents. thank you.

Thank you for your ongoing support Mrs Herne, Mrs Cini  and Mrs Woode

Dinosaurs – Eggs

This week we have been:

Learning about eggs and which animals hatch from eggs. We read the story ‘Tom and the dinosaur egg’, Tom went on a journey to find a home for the dinosaur he found on the beach. We have been making patterns on eggs and exploring different textures.

This week we have been counting how many eggs are in our basket. We spoke about which number was bigger, which one was smaller and which one had the most and which one had the least.

In RE this week we learnt about the Baptism of Jesus. We were roleplaying baptism in the water tray with the babies and we baptised each other with a cross on our foreheads.  We know that Jesus was baptised in the River Jordan using special holy water. We know that this is what is used in church when people are baptised in church.

We have been thinking about rainbows over the past couple of weeks. We have made rainbow flowers using food colour and we have used felt pens to make rainbows in the water. This week we have been making a rainbow using skittles! We will continue next week. As it is science week this week our challenge was to make an umbrella, we have been exploring materials that would be suitable for an umbrella, we have been talking about waterproof and not waterproof we had fun exploring these in the water tray.

We were very lucky this week to have had a special science workshop in the hall. He had lots of fun watching things pop and making fire!

Next week we will be:

• Learning about what dinosaurs eat.
• Exploring size.
• Learning about the Annunciation of Theotokos.
• Starting to learn the sounds of the alphabet.
• Continuing our learning about rainbows and making an umbrella.

Thank you for your support Mrs Herne, Mrs Cini and Mrs Woode

Dinosaurs

This week we have been:

Learning about what dinosaurs get up to when it’s dark. We read the story ‘Dinosaurs after dark’, we explored the dark area and role-played what dinosaurs would be doing in the dark. We then explored nocturnal animals and spoke about things that  humans do at night and what they do during the day. Our dinosaur this week was the pterodactyl, we have been making our own pterodactyls and we learnt the next part of our dinosaur song.

We celebrated world book day this week, the children came to school dressed as their favourite book characters and some of our parents came in and read with us too.

In maths this week we explored ‘anything can be counted’. We counted items on the board and then we went round the classroom and counted lots of different items, we wrote the numbers down and stuck them into the items.

In science this week we explored light and dark, we watched kit and pup explain what light and dark was and we explored light and dark using torches in our own dark area to try and spot the nocturnal animals, we then made shadows using our torches! We have also been exploring how to make a rainbow. 

In our RE this week we continued and learning about Clean Monday. We learnt about Lady lent, she has got seven legs which will help us to countdown to the Easter celebrations. We also went outside and flew our kites and on Tuesday we celebrated the start of Lent by making pancakes they were very yummy.

We re-visited our road safety learning this week. We know that when we are near the road we need to stop, look and listen before we cross the road, we use the zebra crossing and we hold hands. We read a story called ‘Surprise trip to Battersea’, it was about a little boy who took a walk to Battersea Park so that he could adopt a dog, he had to hold hands and he had to watch the traffic when he was on his journey.

Next week we will be:

• Learning about dinosaur eggs and exploring animals that come from eggs
• counting using eggs
• Learning about baptism
• Revisiting being safe when we are online

Messages home

We have had a lot more homework being returned to school, thank you for this. It really means a lot to the children when we get the chance to celebrate their learning from home.

Thank you for your support Mrs Herne, Mrs Cini and Mrs Woode

Dinosaurs

This week we have been:

Learning about dinosaurs. We read the story dinosaur chase. it was about all the different things that dinosaurs could do and how they behave, we then designed our own dinosaur. This week we have been focusing on the Tyrannosaurus rex, we have been making our own Tyrannosaurus rex is on the creative table and we have been painting and sticking in lots of different ways. We also received a parcel this week and we are making our own dinosaur statues and hatching an egg! We hope you enjoy learning our T-Rex rhyme from this week, it’s one part of our dinosaur rhyme/song over this half term.

This week we have been counting using the stories ’10 little dinosaurs’ and ‘Hideasaurus’. We have been counting up to 10 and then back again. We have also been learning the number 16 using the Numberblocks.

In science this week we have been learning about Spring Time. We have been talking about what happens during spring and the kind of weather that we might get during spring time, we have been exploring things that grow a new life.

In science this week we have been exploring different ways of making rainbows! We have been trying to make white flowers turn rainbow colours by using food colouring and water. We are watching them to see what happens!

In RE this week we have been learning about clean Monday. We celebrate clean Monday at the start of Lent and we celebrate by flying kites the children made their kites next week.

This week we read the story ‘Dinosaur roar’. There were lots different words to describe the dinosaurs, we then used our zones of regulation display to talk about which zone we think the dinosaurs were in.

Next week we will be:

• Continuing our learning about dinosaurs in the night time, we will be exploring what ‘nocturnal’ is.
• Exploring nighttime animals.
• Learning about the Pterodactyl dinosaur.
• Counting lots of different things in our classroom and writing the numbers.
• Re-visiting Road safety

Messages home

Home learning – As you are aware we send home home-learning and rhyme books each week. We are finding that not many home-learning sheets are being returned to school so we are unsure if the children are doing the activities we are sending home. We have noticed some of the sheets have been left in the children’s bags and not completed. We may need to review if we are going to send home these sheets if we do not see home-learning being returned.

We would like the children’s rhyme books returned to school by Wednesday each week, however this is also not happening and we are having to ask for the books so we can add the new rhyme. Please ensure the children’s books are returned by Wednesday each week. Each rhyme sheet has been left black and white so you can colour it in at home.

Thank you for your support Mrs Herne, Mrs Cini and Mrs Woode

Transport

This week we have been:

Revisiting all modes of transport. We have been exploring all the transport in the sky on the land and in the water.  We have been thinking about which mode of transport we would like to use to take us to school. We read the story ‘Emergency’,  this book explored all modes of transport and especially the ones we need to use when it is an emergency. The children explored these vehicles in the Sand tray.

Our rhyme this week was ‘Horsey horsey’, the children have been building homes for horses and we also sang this song during music and put musical instruments to the song. We hope you enjoy exploring this rhyme in the children’s rhyme books over half term.

In maths this week we have been thinking about some of our 2-D shapes. We went on a shape hunt in the classroom, we were looking for stars, hearts, ovals and semicircles. The children found all of the hidden shapes in the classroom and were able to name them. We have also been re-visiting numbers 11 to 15 that we have been learning this term using the Numberblocks.

In science this week we have been exploring near and far. We watched Kit and Pup demonstrate what near and far was we then used all three Gruffalo teddies to demonstrate near and far.

This week we finished our creation story by learning about how God made all living things. We had lots of fun putting the living things on our Gods creation scene. We sorted the animals into the environments they live in. 

We have been celebrating Valentine’s Day this week. The children have been making special cards, have been making heart biscuits on the playdough table and exploring hearts in the water tray using heart containers. We have been talking a lot about people that we love.

After half term we will be:

• Learning about dinosaurs focusing on dinosaur behaviour and their features.
• Counting using the book 10 little dinosaurs.
• Learning about Baptism and the Baptism of Jesus.
• Thinking about what helps keep us safe at home and at school.

Thank you for your support Mrs Herne, Mrs Cini and Mrs Woode

Transport – In the water

This week we have been:

Learning about transport we find in the water. This week we read the story Mr Gumpys outing. We have been thinking a lot about boats, we have been making boats using collage and making boats using the big blocks. we have also been using large paper boats and exploring how many people we can fit inside. We have been mark making using the story to help us.

In maths this week we have been exploring how many people will fit inside a boat. We have been using paper boats to explore numbers to 5, to 10 and to 20. We have been counting how many people and animals will fit in a boat and we have also been exploring if the boat is empty or full and what would happen if the boat was full of people . We have also been exploring the number 15 using the Number blocks.

In science this week we have had lots of fun exploring melting and freezing. We watched Kit and Pup explain what melting and freezing was we then had a go and explored ourselves. We were exploring frozen ice, ice cream and chocolate. We found out that things melt when things get warm or hot. The ice cubes and the ice cream were frozen and we added heat to see if they would melt. We also added heat to chocolate to see if that would melt. We also ate some chocolate and we enjoyed the ice cream too!

In RE this week we were learning about how God made the water. We recapped over the story so far and added water to our Gods creation scene.

As we were learning about boats this week we also read the story Noah’s Ark. We have been exploring the story in the sand tray using the large ship and animals. We found out that the animals went in the Ark two by two so we found two of every animal. We also drew our own arks and put animals inside them .

This week we have been exploring what makes a good friend using Peppa Pig. We read a story on the board and then we looked at different emotions and added them to our zones of regulation board. we then made friendship bracelets for each other.

Next week we will be:

• Finishing our learning on transport.
• Finishing our creation story with how God made all living things.
• Revisiting 2-D shapes.
• Learning about and celebrating Saint Valentine’s Day.

Thank you for your ongoing support Mrs Herne, Mrs Cini and Mrs Woode

Chinese New Year

This week we have been:

Learning about and celebrating Chinese New Year. The children have been making their own Chinese dragons and lanterns, we have also read a non-fiction book about Chinese New Year and read the Chinese zodiac story. This year is the year of the snake, the children were born in the year of the ox or the year of the rat, they made their own hats to show which year they were born in. We have also been learning how to write our names in Chinese and how to write our numbers in Chinese. We have had fun building Chinese dragons using the big blocks. We have been exploring noodles in the water tray and in the house.

In maths this week we have been thinking about positional language using the Chinese zodiac story. The children enjoyed learning which animals crossed the line and which animals have a year named after them. They thought the rat pushing the cat in the water was a very funny part of the story. we have also been learning the number 14 years in the Number blocks.

In RE this week we have been learning about The Three Hierarchs. We have been learning about what makes them special and looking at their features. We are able to say who they are, Saint John, Saint Basil and Saint Gregory. We painted a large icon of the three hierarchs.

We had lots of fun saying ‘We love learning’ in lots of different voices! Saying it in a crying voice was very funny.

This week we have also been learning about WWF. The children have been exploring who WWF are, what they do and the animals that they look after. The children have had lots of fun playing in the sand with the animals that WWF protect

We ended our week with our Chinese New Year celebrations. We danced with the dragon, the large fan, the dance strings and dance scarves. We really enjoyed listening to the Chinese New Year song and using drums and cymbals to a piece of Chinese dragon dance music.

Next week we will be:

• Continuing our learning on transport, focusing on transport in the water.
• Revisiting 2D shapes.
• Learning about how God made water.
• Reading the Bible story Noah’s ark.

We hope the children enjoy their Chinese New Year bag. Inside they will find a lucky envelope with coin, a fortune cookie, their Chinese lantern and Chinese dragon, their hat and a balloon .

Thank you for your support Mrs Herne, Mrs Cini and Mrs Woode