Week Beginning 20.02.23

Welcome back!

I hope you all had a lovely half term, the children have enjoyed sharing all the different things they got up too!

This week our learning has been based around 'Owl Babies'. The children have enjoyed the provision that has been based around this this, such as writing how the babies were feeling, painting owls, and lots more! We worked as a class to label parts of a flower, the children impressed me with their knowledge of petal/stem/leaf/roots. 

Some things we have enjoyed this week are:

  • Shove Tuesday - pancake races, pancake cafe, ingrediants list for pancakes, cutting up fruit, decorating their pancake and of course, eating it!
  • in maths we have been representing different numbers on the tens frames using two colours. So I would put 4 red counters on and 4 yellow counters on, the children would successfully put 8 counters on and would be able to say "i see 4 red and 4 yellow together there is 8" and one more and one less than a number 
  • writing messages to our friends 
Phonics:

This week we have been reviewing the sounds oa, nk and ng. It would be great if Reception could practice these at home. You could write a few down and hide them for them to find them. You could also do this with some words with these sounds in. Hide them around the room, or sound them out and the children can write them. 

Some examples of words with these sounds:
boat, coat, road, toad
pink wink sink link 
ping pong song sing 

Ways to help at home:
  • read with your child(ren) 3 times a week minimum, getting your child(ren) to point to the words as they read, answering the questions at the back of the book 
  • please write in their yellow book when they have read their reading book twice so that I can read it with them and then change it as by this point they should be reading that book fluently
  • touch counting up to 20
  • one more and one less than a number - talk about more means the number gets bigger and less means that the number gets smaller 
  • recognising numbers and writing them 
  • sounding out words with robot arms
  • practice their words 
  • practice letter formation 
  • talk about different shapes at home and when out and about 
Phonics - 
Below, is a link to a youtube video of the pure sounds, we have learnt up to ure. The video shows more, but there is no harm in the children seeing these as we will be moving onto soon.


A few reminders: 
  • please can you write in the reading records so we know if your child(ren) have read at home, when I am reading with the children I am looking for them to be able to read the book fluently. Of course they can still sound out the words but if they sounding out all of the sentence "Nok went to the shop" I would like them to repeat the sentence back without sounding out.
  • please can children bring in wellies to school so they can wear these in the mud 
  • please check tapestry to follow along with your child's learning 
Nursery - 

Nursery children have been enjoying their daily phonics sessions with Miss G where they are focusing on rhyming, they have been working hard to clap the syllables in their names and their favourite drinks. They have also continued to practice recognising and writing their name. Nursery children have also been enjoying counting through songs using props to help them too as well as recognising numerals and beginning to subitise. 

If you could practice name writing and drawing with your child that would be fantastic :)

Donations 
There are a few things that we are short of at school, if you have any of these or maybe you will in the future please keep us in mind :)
  • train tracks
  • lego
  • wooden blocks
  • wellies
  • wooden food
  • small people
  • prams
outdoor donations:
  • bark
  • soil
  • pots and pans 
  • buckets
  • decking planks 
  • crates 


Have a lovely weekend :)

Miss Lewis 

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