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Easter
This week we have been:
This week was Easter week and we finished telling the Easter story. The children enjoyed telling me the Easter story while making the Easter mobiles. The children have really enjoyed acting out the Easter story using the props that we have in class. The girls went to the hall to add flowers to the epitaphion. You will have noticed the children have taken home the Easter bags, this contains some of the things that we have been making to help us celebrate Easter. Here is some information about the red egg that was sent home. We encourage you not to eat it. [Red-eggs-info.pdf] We also went to the Easter assembly and the children really enjoyed watching each day that we have been acting out in class. The children sat really well for such a long time and we are very very proud of them.
In maths this week we continued on learning on 3-D shapes. We use the topic of Easter to play an Easter 3-D shape game on the board. The children are really starting to understand the names of the 3D shapes and knowing whether they are solid or flat. We also used the shape train video to help us understand where you might use flat and solid shape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBUjH2KJns4
This week we looked at the basic skills of cooking, tools that you need, ingredients that you need and the actions that we do when we are cooking. We have had fun in the water tray making our own porridge using spoons, bowls, porridge, and water.
In PE this week we went outside onto the Astroturf the children were exploring using balls. We were kicking, throwing and catching and scoring goals. The children really enjoyed doing PE outside and we will continue this when the weather gets better during the summer term.
After half term we will be:
- Going back to our learning about animals, focusing on bears
- Thinking about ty and teen in numbers.
- Learning about the Good Samaritan.
- Exploring ways of moving a ball.
Messages home
Just a reminder that the school closes for Easter on Tuesday 23rd April. The nursery children all finish at 11:50 on this day. There is no afternoon session.
We have sent your rhyme books home, please keep these at home now for the holidays and return them when we come back to school after the holiday. We will still change reading books on Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd April.
You will be receiving a letter about ‘Tiger day’ on Tuesday the 14th of May. We would like the children to come to school dressed as a tiger for the day. We will be having a tea party and we would really like the children to be dressed up as a tiger or wearing orange and black for the day.
I hope you all have a lovely break. We will look forward to seeing you all back for the summer tern on Tuesday 7th May.
Please can you ensure that the children are wearing the correct uniform to school, this includes navy blue or black coat and black shoes.
Thank you for your support, Mrs Herne
Mrs Woode and Mrs Huter
Easter/Animals
This week we have been:
Learning about Holy Week, Easter. So far we have learnt about Palm Sunday, Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday and Holy Wednesday. We have been acting out the story and talking about each day. We have also enjoyed making a sweet Greek bread called ————. Next week we will be continuing our learning about Holy Week and taking part in our Easter assembly.
We watched a video called Jesus loves me, the children knew the song and enjoyed looking closer at the words in the song and what they mean, the children took a cross home to remind them that Jesus loves them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QSaWPYb6_6k&pp=ygUOamVzdXMgbG92ZXMgbWU%3D
In maths this week we have been learning about 3D shapes. We have been identifying solid and flat shapes. We have been looking at 3D shapes in real life and learning the names of the shapes. We will be exploring this more next next.
In science this week we have been learning about liquid and solid. We used kit and pup to show us what a liquid and solid is. We then looked at several items and sorted them into liquid and solid. Please explore this at home with the children.
Next week we will be:
- Continuing our Holy Week, Easter learning and taking part in our Easter assembly.
- Continuing our learning about 3D shapes
- Exploring how to bake a cake.
Thank you for your support, Mrs Herne
Mrs Woode and Mrs Huter
Animals
This week we have been:
Reading the story Handa’s surprise. We have enjoyed retelling the story using masks and using the small world in the sand tray. We have also been tasting the different fruit from the story and enjoyed telling our own stories using the wild animals. We have been making shopping lists for Handa so that she can go and buy some new fruit for her friend Akeyo.
In maths this week we have been thinking about things in our class we can count. We had lots of fun counting objects and labelling them. We have also had lots of fun using our number block cubes! We have been making number block towers and comparing them.
In science we have been learning about how to grow flowers. We watched Kit and Pup and then made our own flowers we had fun making our own flower garden and singing Mary Mary quiet contrary.
In Re this week we have started our Easter learning by making our own egg cups. We will be continuing this learning over the next few weeks. We have also been learning about Gods first family, Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were tricked into eating fruit from the tree of knowledge and were made to live in a horrible place. They wanted to make things right with God so they decided to make the first family, they had two sons Kane and Abel.
Next week we will be:
- Starting our Holy Week learning and celebrations.
- Continuing our animal topic through stories.
- Learning and exploring 3D shapes.
- learning about liquid and solid.
Thank you for your support, Mrs Herne
Mrs Huter and Mrs Woode
Animals
This week we have been
Learning about a new topic animals. We read the story ‘There was an old lady who swallowed a fly’, we use the dolly and the props to help us tell the story, we also watched a video online.We also read the book ‘Farmer duck’ and ‘The rainbow fish’ this week we also had lots of fun painting our own rainbow fish using bubble wrap and rainbow colours and writing about the rainbow fish. Our rhymes this week were ‘Baa baa Black sheep’ and ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’, we made our own sheep using cotton wall and paper plates.
In math’s this week we have been counting different objects and realising that anything can be counted. Some of us were counting to 5, some of us were counting to 10 and some of us were counting to 20. We have also been using the Numberblocks to learn the number 20.
In RE this week we have been learning about the Annunciation of Theotokos. We reviewed our learning from Christmas from where baby Jesus was born and we know that in March the angel went to Mary to tell her she was going to have a baby she then grew the baby in her tummy for nine months and baby Jesus was born on Christmas Day which is why we celebrate Christmas.
We continued and finished our science learning this week with making rainbows. We used water and shaving foam and added food colouring to watch a rainbow fall from the sky. We also made rainbow waves in bottles using oil and water we found out that water and oil do not mix and when they are together they separate.
Some of you will be celebrating Easter this weekend so we started some Easter celebrations ourselves. The children have been busy making Easter baskets and we made chocolate nests this week, you will also find the children have made chick Easter cards to help you celebrate Easter.
Next week we will be
- Continuing our animal topic by reading Handa’s surprise.
- Making shopping lists.
- Exploring counting using flowers and continuing to count lots of different objects.
- Exploring wild animals and where they live.
- Learning about God’s first family.
Messages home
We hope you have a lovely Easter weekend
If you did not manage to meet me for a parent consultation and would still like to, please let me know and I will try and fit you in during the normal school day.
Thank you for your ongoing support, Mrs Herne,
Mrs Huter and Mrs Woode
Dinosaurs
This week we have been:
Learning about the kinds of foods that dinosaurs eat. We know they eat meat and they eat veg. We read a story called ‘Tyrannosaurus drip’, we then made food on the play-dough table, we made our own food plates on the writing table and we learnt how to brush our teeth in the water tray using plastic teeth, toothbrushes and toothpaste.
In math’s this week we have been exploring big, medium and small food that we can feed the dinosaurs. We had meat and we had veg. We have also been making paper diplodocuses, the neck was not long enough so the children made the neck longer. We then measured them and looked at which one was the longest and which one it was the shortest.
This week was science week, we have had lots of fun exploring how to make rainbows. We read the story ‘Catching a rainbow’ and we really wanted to make our own. We painted our own rainbows, we used special pens on tissue and put it into water to make a rainbow grow. |We also used skittle sweets to make a rainbow and explored making a rainbow using torches on top of CDs. We also tried changing the colour of a white flower into a different colours using food colouring.
We have also learnt about spring time and made out and blossom tree for the display.
We celebrated clean Monday this week by flying kites outside together, we will be using lady lent to help us count down the weeks to Easter
We all had a great time on our trip to the dinosaur lakes. The children were able to spot the dinosaurs on the list and really enjoyed walking around with the class and sharing what we found. We all wore our wellies as it was a little bit muddy!
Next week we will be:
- Starting our animal topic. We will be reading ‘There was an old lady who swallowed … ‘ and ‘The rainbow fish’. We will be focusing on farm animals.
- Continuing our science learning on making rainbows and then exploring how to make waves.
- Counting and comparing objects.
Messages home
Next week will be parent consultations please ensure you book your appointment.
Thank you for your support, Mrs Herne
Mrs Woode and Mrs Huter.
Dinosaurs
This week we have been:
Continuing and learning on dinosaurs. This week we read the story ‘Tom and the dinosaur egg’. Tom found an egg and he looked after it and it turned into a dinosaur, it was far too big to keep as a pet so he sent it back home. We have been counting eggs, exploring eggs and we even had a egg delivered to class! We looked after it and hatched it ourselves! We have been drawing pictures of what we think might be inside the egg.
In maths this week we have been counting eggs, thinking about the size of eggs and we’ve also been learning the number 18 and 19 using the Numberblocks.
This week we have been exploring eggs and the kind of animals that we get from eggs. This learning led us on to thinking about spring and exploring the start of Easter. We have been busy making Easter baskets and making Easter cards.
In science this week we have been learning about bubbles. We watched Kit and Pup explore bubbles and investigate the shape of them. We had great fun making our own bubbles in the water tray!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bqm9vv/kit-pup-series-1-46-bubbles
We have started learning about clean Monday. We read a story explaining why we celebrate clean Monday and we have all made a kite so we can join in the clean Monday celebrations on Monday 18th of March. We will be using a special lady with seven legs to help us countdown to the Greek orthodox Easter.
Next week we will be:
- Continuing our learning about dinosaurs, focusing on what they like to eat.
- Thinking about the different kinds of foods we like to eat.
- Thinking about size using dinosaur food.
- Exploring rainbows through science.
Messages home
On Wednesday, the 20th of March we will be going on a very short trip to Crystal Palace Park, we would like to ask that the children come to school wearing their wellie boots. Please ensure the children have their school shoes in the school bag so we can change the children when we return to school.
Sending home, home learning on a Thursday is working much better. Thank you for supporting us and children in ensuring home learning is being completed.
Thank you for your ongoing support Mrs Herne,
Mrs Huter and Mrs Wood
Dinosaurs
This week we have been:
Learning about dinosaurs and what they get up to at night time! We read the book ‘Dinosaurs after dark’ and used the torches in the dark area to find nocturnal animals. We made shadows using dinosaurs and torches and we also used blindfolds in our PE session and guided each other around in the hall.
In phonics this week we have been learning the initial sounds of some of the letters, we focused on ‘a’ this week we used Alphablocks and Yakka Dee to help us.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01d07xw/alphablocks-series-2-6-cat
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001qnp0/yakka-dee-series-7-sounds-1-a
In maths this week we have been re-visiting 2-D shapes and how you draw them and we have been learning the number 17 using the Numberblocks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00063vv/numberblocks-series-4-seventeen
In RE this week we have been learning about Mother’s Day. We have been singing songs and making special Mother’s Day cards. Mother’s Day is all about telling the girls and ladies in our lives that we love them and thank you for all they do for us.
In science this week we’ve been learning about light and dark using kit and pup. We also went to the hall for a science workshop, we had lots of fun involving fire, air and gas!
This week reception received special eggs! We have been watching the eggs hatch into little chicks, we got to watch them and hold them!
Next week we will be:
- Learning about eggs, we will be thinking about eggs in spring time and dinosaur eggs
- Counting using eggs and thinking about the shape and size of eggs
- starting our Easter celebrations by thinking about clean Monday and making special kites
- Learning about spring time
Messages home
On Wednesday, the 20th of March we will be going on a short trip to Crystal Palace Park to visit the dinosaurs. We would like to ask that the children have wellies in school for that day we will be back in time for lunch so nursery times are as normal
Thank you for your support, Mrs Herne,
Mrs Woode and Mrs Huter
Dinosaurs
- Continuing our dinosaur learning, reading a dinosaur story about the dark and exploring the dark.
- Learning the number 17.
- Learning the sound a.
- Thinking about Mother’s Day and what it is
Chinese New Year
This week we have been learning:
About Chinese New Year. we have been writing Chinese letters, writing Chinese numbers, exploring noddles in the water tray, telling the Chinese zodiac story, making fortune cookies on the play dough table and making Chinese dragons and Chinese lanterns on the creative table. On Friday we had a big celebration in the hall, it was lots of fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yvTsnB9vjE
Gung hoy, fat choy!
We also celebrated Valentine’s Day and pancake day. We had fun talking about the people we love and making special Valentine’s Day cards, we also enjoyed making pancakes and eating them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TfJh0kLJCw
After half term we will be:
- Starting our new topic about dinosaurs
- Exploring non-fiction books
- Counting to 10 and back again and learning the number 16
- Learning about baptism
- Revisiting Pantosaurus
Messages home
We have sent home information on helping the children with their coats. This includes putting the coats on, doing up buttons and doing up zips please practice this during the holidays and encourage the children to be independent.
Please can you also ask that all the children’s clothes especially their jumpers have their names written in them. As its getting a little warmer the children are taking their jumpers off and it makes it tricky when they do not have names.
We hope you have a relaxing break.
Thank you for you ongoing support, Mrs Herne
Mrs Huter and Mrs Woode
Transport
This week we have been:
We finishing our topic on transport. We read the story emergency and we identified all modes of transport in the sky, on the land and in the water. We learnt about flat and steep using kit and pup and we explored flat and steep using our construction boards and our vehicles.
In phonics this week we have started thinking about the sounds we hear in words, some of us have been writing CVC words using pictures to help us.
In math’s this week we were looking at the properties of 2-D shapes and drawing them we also learnt the number 15 using the Number blocks.
In RE this week we finished the creation story we learnt about how God made all living things including Adam and Eve.
We have continued our Smartie the penguin story this week and re-visiting the song before you tap and click you need to stop and think and tell someone Smartie the penguin was very smart and made the right decisions.
Next week we will be:
- Learning about Chinese New Year. This includes ordering numbers using the Chinese zodiac story, exploring noodles, making dragons, writing in chinese and having fun dancing and moving to Chinese music.
- Revisiting numbers 11 to 15.
- Celebrating Valentine’s Day.
Thank you for your support, Mrs Herne
Mrs Huter and Mrs Woode