We had such an amazing day and saw so many animals! We also managed to take part in an animal explorers workshop where we had to follow clues to find a particular animal… Mrs O’Carolan’s group had to find an Ostrich! (Can you see the Ostrich skull in the picture above?)

Thank you also to all of the lovely parent helpers who made the trip possible…a huge thank you from everyone in Early Years.

Last week we were playing in the outside area when one of the children in our year group found a giant moth!

It was really exciting to look at the moth up close and notice all of the body parts a moth has. We finally let it go and put it in a safe place so it wouldn’t be found by any predators!

Dear Parents,

Just a reminder that next Friday (12th) is our class assembly! The children are already working hard learning their lines ready for the big day!

As home learning this week please can every child learn their lines at home ready for next week.

Thank you for your continuing support

Miss Rhoades

Finally the wind has dropped and the sun has come out! We have had such a lovely afternoon paddling in the water stream, experiencing the feeling of cold water on our toes! It has promoted such wonderful speech and language and has provided a wonderful experience for many of the children.

Home Learning for this week…

Letters and Sounds:

Miss Moncreaff’s Phonics Group:

Blending and segmenting CVC words

Miss Rhoades Phonics Group:

er and tricky words her

Mrs O’Carolan’s Group:

tricky words: spotting high frequency words/ tricky words in the stories we are reading

Number Crunch:

Addition and subtraction.

Can you record any number sentences? What can you use to help you work out the answer?

Dear Parents,

We are really enjoying the warmer weather and have all been enjoying gardening, digging and looking for mini-beasts.

We would really appreciate any kind donations of gardening equipment, seeds, plants, pots etc that you may have lying around at home or sitting in the shed. We are desperately short of wheelbarrows, trowels, gardening gloves and plants!

Thank you for all of your support and any donations would be greatly received!

Thank you!!!

Home Learning for this week…

Letters and Sounds:

Miss Moncreaff’s and Miss Rhoades Phonics Group:

ear, air, ure and tricky words they

Mrs O’Carolan’s Group:

tricky words: were, there, little, one and learning to spell words with adjacent consonants eg street, spring, think

Number Crunch:

Number and measure skills through cookery eg measuring ingredients, halving vegetables to create vegetable soup

Extra Home Learning Challenge:

Have you got Liturgy words in your bookbag? If so, please learn these at home

Welcome back everyone after a sunny 2 weeks off school! We hope you have all had a wonderful, restful break.

Our new topic of ‘growing’ began this week and already the children have been gardening in the outdoor area, exploring different fruits and vegetables and creating their own recipe for vegetable soup (although some recipes contain strawberries…not sure the grown ups will be trying that one!).

For home learning this week please dip into our new home learning pyramid which can be found below by clicking this link …. Home Learning Pyramid

Paper copies will be given out at the end of this week.

Home Learning for this week…

Letters and Sounds:

Miss Moncreaff’s and Miss Rhoades Phonics Group:

oo, ar, or and tricky words no, go

Mrs O’Carolan’s Group:

tricky words: she, we, me, be and learning to spell words with adjacent consonants eg street, spring, think

Number Crunch:

Number bonds to 10…how many different ways can we make 10 using two numbers? Eg 5+5=10, 4+6=10

Easter Home Learning Challenge:

Can you share your Library book with a family member or friend? Why did you choose this book at the library? What was your favourite part? Who were the main characters in the book? What type of book is it? (non-fiction or fiction)

Have a wonderful Easter everyone!!!!!

Wow! What a fantastic morning/afternoon we have all had today! On behalf of everyone that works in Early Years I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who gave up their time today to help Starfish and Seahorse class.

We had such a fantastic visit and have all thoroughly enjoyed our day. In the Library, one of the Librarians gave a talk about the Library and the types of books we might find there, she also read a really funny story! We then went on a treasure hunt to look for different types of books!! We were also given the opportunity to look at some of the books in the Library and were all allowed to take one home and borrow it for a short period of time!

We have absolutely loved our day at the Library!!

Miss Rhoades