Month: October 2015

Tomorrow morning we will be taking the Reception children to the church to meet Sandy and to have a good look around. If any mums, dads or grandparents can spare an hour from 9-10am to walk the children across then we would be very grateful. Please let us know in the morning if you can help.

Today we have been reading ‘I Can’t Do This’ by KJ Walton.

We talked about developing a growth mind set where instead of saying “I can’t do this”, we say “I can’t do this yet”. We have to keep thinking and thinking and trying and trying until we can do it.

Here we are having a good think about what we are really good at and what we would like to be able to do that we can’t do yet.
Isaac would like to learn how to build a dragon. Jacob wants to learn how to write words. Keira wants to be able to draw a butterfly. Poppy wants to learn how to do a handstand. Mimi wants to ride her bike without stabilisers.

All Reception parents and carers should have now received details for signing in to view their child’s learning journey. Thank you to all of you that have already registered. If you are having difficulties then please let us know.
The interactive learning diary is a great way to see all the activities and achievements your children have been getting up to at school and also gives you the opportunity to upload comments, photos and videos of things the children get up to at home.
Here is a link to the ILD site.

 

 

This week we have been innovating our class retell of the Little Red Hen by changing the Little Red Hen’s friends. In our original story there is a bull, a cat and a rat. Yesterday, to match our sound of the day ‘g’ we used a goat, a gorilla and a gazelle. Today we used an otter, an ostrich and an orangutan for ‘o’. Tomorrow our sound of the day will be ‘c’. I wonder which animals we will choose???

Smiley Melon Mouths helping us to learn our letter sounds.

Aqua Class Little Red Hens on PhotoPeach

Midnight Class Little Red Hens on PhotoPeach

Don’t forget it is Outdoor Learning tomorrow for our reception children. Please send your child in to school wearing navy, grey or black leggings or joggers. Looks like it is going to be a dry sunny morning!

We have been doing so well with letters and sounds. This week so far we have learnt the phonemes ‘i’ and ‘n’ and the exciting part is that we are beginning to sound out phonemes and blend them together to read words! This can take lots of practice. See if your child can read these words at home.

phase 2 set 1

All Reception children have now been given a pink poem book. Our first poem is Apples, Apples. Please share the poem with your child at home. Can they remember it and sing/recite it back to you? Can they find the rhyming words? Songs and rhymes have a hugely positive impact on a child’s language and literacy development.  Research has shown that a child who knows four nursery rhymes by the time they’re four will naturally be a better reader at eight years old. Rhymes help us to learn to play with words. They tune our ears to all the sounds in the word. By hearing different sounds we learn how sounds combine and blend together to form a word, we can learn how to play with them, how to change them and we can learn to recognise what sounds can be paired with other sounds. Most importantly it is lots of fun!

 

We had a fabulous sunny morning in the woods today. We climbed trees,

explored the undergrowth

and collected lots of natural materials.

The children were very well behaved and followed our three rules
1). No pick
2). No lick
3). Be careful with a stick

We got back to school just in time for play time and even brought a big bag of cooking apples back to school with us.  What shall we do with all those apples? More photos will follow soon.
Thank you to all our parent helpers, we couldn’t have gone without you.

We also learnt the phoneme ‘p’ today, as well as playing on Woodhenge, bikes and trikes and outdoor PE. What a busy day! I’m sure all of the children will sleep well tonight!