Home Learning for this week…

Letters and Sounds:

Miss Moncreaff’s and Miss Rhoades Phonics Group:

ai, ee, igh, oa and tricky words was my

Mrs O’Carolan’s Group:

tricky words: do, what, when, out and learning to spell words with adjacent consonants eg street, spring, think

Number Crunch:

Learning to name and describe 3D shapes.

Thank you!

Hey everyone…what a busy week we have had so far!

We have been really into gardening and digging this week and have loved using the gardening tools to dig in the mud and look for buried treasure!

In Starfish class we have changed our role play into a mini allotment and have a mud pit and vegetables for the children to experiment with. So far lots of children have been interested in planting seeds and have been chopping up the fruit in the fruit basket to look for seeds!

We are so glad Spring is finally here!

Miss Rhoades

We have been so impressed with all of the children in the year group this week! They have been so excited to have their turn going out walking round the local area hunting for numbers, looking at the number system, identifying one more or one less and looking at missing numbers.

The children have been so inspired by this trip we are planning some more local trips very soon!

Reading Practise:

Please share as many books as you can at home. Spot all of the sounds you know and have a go at recognising some of the tricky words you can’t sound out!

Number Revision:

Ordering numbers 0-20 and then 20-0 as a challenge!

Extra Challenge!

We have noticed many children are coming into school with lots of colds and snotty noses! A great way to teach your child to blow their nose is to hold a piece of paper on the top of your nose, you then have to move the paper by blowing through your nose and keeping your mouth shut (please only try this if your child does not have a cold!!!) Another nice game to play is nose football where you have to move a paper ball/ping pong ball by blowing through your nostrils.

Please continue to revise all Phase 3 sounds and continue to share as many stories as you can at home.

In Number Crunch this week we have been halving and doubling. Can you find a recipe that requires halving or doubling and try it out? Eg making fairy cakes and halving the amount of cakes you made at the end?

Home Learning Pyramid …please click here!

Please click on the link to open up our new home learning pyramid for our new topic ‘Growing Up’. A paper copy will be given out this week in your child’s home learning diary.

Your children may have been telling you about some new arrivals!

Tomorrow we will be receiving an incubator with around 10 eggs and they take about 2 days to hatch. 12-24 hours after this we will be able to pick them up! It is all very exciting and we will be sure to keep you posted through photos and blog posts.

Your child will learn all about how to look after the chicks, how eggs work, where they come from and much, much more- Watch this space!

Miss Moncreaff

This week your home learning is to complete the WOW badge design in your child’s home learning diaries.

This is our last week on our current topic of artists. We will therefore be sending out a new home learning pyramid next week for our new context ‘growing up’. To excite the children we have organised to look after and care for some chick eggs next week which will hopefully hatch!! The children are extremely excited about this and we cannot wait to see what will hatch from the eggs! We have also been finding out about what the children already know and we are so impressed with all of the facts the children know about baby animals and life cycles! Well done Year R!

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a lovely half term and cannot believe we have nearly completed two terms at school!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for the home learning completed over half term. The recounts, pictures, collages and drawings are wonderful and proves how inspiring our trip to the art gallery was.

This week the children have been applying the art skills learnt at the gallery in their play. They have been creating newspaper paintings inspired by the artist Kurt Jackson whose exhibition was on show at the gallery. We have also been creating sea scapes using oil pastels, water colours and collage. This evening we will be sending the pictures created at the art gallery home, so look out for them in book bags!

Miss Rhoades

As you know we are all off to the Art Gallery on Friday! As it is half term next week we would like you to reflect on your visit to the gallery. In your book bags we have provided a sheet for you if you would like to do a recount and use your phase 2 and phase 3 sounds to have a go at writing some sentences! You may also like to create some art work based on what inspired you on the trip.

The children have all worked so hard this half term and the progress made since Christmas has been a joy to behold.

Once again thank you to all of you for your support at home and on behalf of the Early Years team we wish you a restful half term!