Week beginning 4th December

 Week beginning 20.11.23

We have had a very busy 2 weeks in Class 1, especially as we get nearer to Christmas. We have some very excited children (and adults!) The children have been working on some lovely Christmas crafts that they will bring home in their Christmas box next Friday. The children have loved seeing what mischief our class elf gets up to in the mornings and lots of them are writing cards for him daily :) 

I hope you enjoyed the Christmas open afternoon, the children loved seeing so many familiar faces in the audience. 

Nativity 

Please make sure you have bought your child's costume in for Monday

Dress rehearsal - Monday 9:30am 

Afternoon Performance - Tuesday 1:30pm - children will take their costume home 

Evening Performance - Tuesday 6:oopm - Children to come in their costume at 5:50pm 

This week we have been:

  • consolidating all of the sounds we have learnt (36 of them!!) and have been practicing reading words with these sounds in
  • making lots of Christmas crafts 
  • subitising 4 and 5 
  • writing an ingredients list for playdough 
Phonics: 
We have been focusing on accurately blending words with the taught sounds in. 

Children have been given new books today and these will be collected next Friday. I will not be giving out new books next week for the Christmas break, I will be sorting out all the books ready for the next term and the children will be too busy having lots of precious Christmas fun :)

Please see the link below to hear how to say the sounds and the letter formations. 



Tricky word bookmarks 
 
To help children remember some of the tricky words we have been learning in Phonics I have made some bookmarks for the children to keep at home to practice. In time I will see how well they can recognise these words and then will give them the next bookmark. To assess how well they know them I will write them down for them to then read without using Phonics. The children all know that tricky words are tricky because you cannot always sound them out, I am sure they have told you that already!

Reception: how to help at home:
  • encouraging your child to get changed for school
  • writing numbers
  • counting toys or anything at home (touch count)
  • eye spy - e.g. I spy with my little eye something beginning with a 
  • reading their phonics and badger book
Nursery:

This week nursery children have been
  • in listening time this week we have been exploring the sounds s a t and have just introduced p, we have also been clapping out syllables in the rhyme the sailor went to sea sea sea
  • counting out objects 
  • tracing over their name 
Here is a link to some of the nursery rhymes that they have been singing during listening time, please feel free to practice these at home https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

Nursery: how you can help at home: 
  • tracing over their name
  • getting changed for school
  • counting objects or toys
  • reading stories

I hope you all have a lovely weekend :)

Miss Lewis 

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