Week beginning 28.11.22

Week beginning 21.11.22

During the past 2 weeks we have been 

  • the sounds we have learnt over the last two weeks are - sh th ng nk ai ee igh oa 
  • subitising numbers and writing number sentences
  • exploring shapes, knowing how many sides they have and how many vertices 
  • exploring birthdays, how we celebrate them, writing cards and making gifts out of junk modelling 
  • celebrating the world cup, making flags, linking it do the British Values 
  • continuing to complete our challenges that are set out on the tables and getting house points 
  • looking at pictures and writing the initial sound we can hear, using our taught phonics
  • reading with adults
  • starting to independently use our taught phonics to write in a range of ways
Ways to help at home:
  • read with your child(ren) 3 times a week minimum
  • touch counting 
  • recognising numbers and writing them 
  • practice phonics, and blending sounds together
  • picking words from their reading book for them to write, slowly sounding out the word for children to hear and write the sounds


Phonics - 
I will upload a new videos of all the phonics sounds soon 

Nursery:

This week nursery children have been
  • exploring phase 1 phonics - playing a game  with instruments each day focusing on what they can hear 
  • practicing recognising and writing our names 
  • finding shapes in our environment 
  • lots of stories 
  • practicing cutting 
  • counting and touch counting 
  • building towers and making patterns with them
  • learning to use timers to share toys

A few reminders: 
  • please can you write in the reading records so we know if your child(ren) have read at home
  • please let us know if the book it too easy/hard for your child, we want to instill a love of reading and therefore the correct book match is important 
  • please watch the phonics videos if you can with your child(ren) - feel free to share photos/videos with me on tapestry 
I hope you all had a lovely weekend :)

Miss Lewis 

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