- The Crabtree Fireworks are this Saturday. Hope you can make it. It is always lots of fun.
- If you ordered Christmas Cards they should be coming home in your child's book bag this Friday.
- The 'book look' which was cancelled on Friday 25th October has been rescheduled for Friday 29th November between 2-3 pm.
- Please can you ensure that your child's Home School Book is in your child's book bag at all times.
- Please could we ask for boxes of varying sizes for junk modelling including cereal packets.We are also after ketchup/mayonnaise/salad cream squeezy plastic bottles to use for our paint. Many thanks in advance.
- The Christmas play will take place on 18th December at 9.15am and 19th December at 10.15am. Information about tickets will come from the office.
- Things to do...
- In maths this week we have focused on comparing quantities and using the vocabulary more/ less, fewer/fewest, most.
- Your child can change their book each day. We remind them when we give them a 5 minute warning before we tidy up. Some of them are not very good at changing their books! Feel free to send them back in at the end of the day if their book hasn't been
- The children have started learning their phonemes this week. They have focused on s, and a. Please review these at home. Make sure your child can recognise the phoneme and say the sound. Try playing I-spy and blending and segmenting simple words using these phonemes.
We hope you all had a super relaxing half term break. Thank you to everyone who sent in their child's magic moments from half term. Please keep sending them in as they are a great addition to your child's learning journal. Please record anything exciting that happened over the holidays e.g learning to ride a bike, celebrations (Diwali, Christenings, weddings), visiting new places- learning something new.
Each morning the children start with their Guided Writing activity. We have been focusing on the children's names as well as fine motor activities including cutting and threading.
In maths this week we have focused on comparing quantities. Saying which group has more/less/fewer/ the most.
The activities included using the Numicon pieces and saying who has more, less and the same as the Numicon held by the adult. Using dice, who rolled the highest number and who rolled the lowest number. The children built towers, who used the most bricks, the least/fewest bricks? The children also used the tens frames and grabbed a handful of conkers, placing each on the tens frame, they then had to say who had more/less.
In phonics the children have learnt to recognise and say phonemes s,and a. They thought of lots of words with these phonemes as the initial sound: snake, snip, sausages, sand, ankle, ant, acrobat,aeroplane, apple. Play I Spy with your child using these phonemes and see if they can segment and blend the simple words: pat, sat, nap, tap, taps, pats.
Adult directed activities have included Woodland Learning, Junk modelling technique and firework dancing.
In Woodland Learning the children discussed the seasons and how it is now Autumn and the leaves are changing colour and falling from the trees. The children learnt about the British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy and looked at examples of work made using natural materials. The children then worked either in groups or individually to collect natural materials from the Robin Hood Trail and make a picture/sculpture on the floor.
The children learnt the importance of planning their junk modelling and thinking carefully about what they were going to make, what materials they were going to use and they were taught some joining techniques.
The children had lots of fun learning a firework rocket dance. The children watched a Firework display on the interactive whiteboard. They thought about the sounds that the fireworks make.
Pop,
bang, whizz, fizz, crackle, zoom, boom, wheee,
sparkle, eeee, crickle, shshshsh, rrrrrrr, ppppppp, cccccc, fffff,
hushshsh, phew, whow, etc
They then thought about different ways they could interpret the music moving quickly, slowly and at different levels and all moved to the firework music.
The children have also been introduced to the story of the Gunpowder Plot this week, talking about the reasons we have fireworks on November the 5th. In ChIL the children had the chance to order pictures sequencing the order of events in the story.
The children enjoyed playing with the powder paints to make fireworks on the playground. After their junk modelling adult directed activity they have been very focused in the creative area. they have enjoyed playing in the role play area which is set up as a school.
Have a great weekend and enjoy the Crabtree Fireworks on Saturday.
