I’m sure you will all know by now that we have chicks in reception! Please ask your children all about them as they will be able to tell you lots. We have been writing to the chicks, about the chicks, and weighing them as well as their eggs.

Please continue to check the blog and tapestry for more updates!

Bloom’s HL – growing up

We LOVED our visit from the fire service on Thursday. It was wonderful that every child got to have a turn using the hose and getting inside the fire engine. We certainly learned lots!

Tomorrow we will be having visitors of the fluffy kind… Watch this space!

We hope you have had a lovely half term filled with lots of time for relaxation!

Just to keep you in the loop: we are having a visit from the fire service this week so have been getting ready! What do you think of our fire station and fire engine?

Home Learning w/b 8/2/16

We have been learning all about ‘people who help us’. Who do you know that does a job which helps people?

Sounds this week:

‘oa’ ‘oo’ (as in boot) ‘oo’ (as in book)

Tricky words: ‘was’ and ‘my’

Please look at a book a day on Bugclub over the holidays!

We have thoroughly enjoyed our ‘people who help us’ topic so far- the highlight of which is certain to be the visit from two police officer Daddies (Officer Burridge and Officer Lipscomb) and our local PCSO, Carl Boxall.

Oliver even asked to arrest me!

Our birthday children got to set off the lights and the siren (which was very loud), and we all learned which number to call if we had an emergency. We also talked about police officers being there to help– not someone to be scared of!

Here are some photos of our fun day of learning!

We hope your children have been telling you all about ‘People Who Help Us’: our new topic! We have been busy thinking of what we want to learn about and making new role play areas, including a vets surgery!

We will be visited tomorrow by a police officer, a PCSO and a police car in order to make the topic come alive. If any parents would like to volunteer to share their profession with us then please do!

Below is this week’s home learning, including the link to the new pyramid (a copy of which is also stuck into your child’s home learning adventure book).

Home Learning w/b 1/2/16

We have been learning all about ‘people who help us’. Who helps you? Could you interview them? Draw them? Write about them?

Tricky words this week:

‘the’ ‘to’ ‘we’ ‘me’  ‘be’ ‘he’ ‘she’ ‘no’ ‘go’

Can you do some police maths? E.g. 3 robbers, 2 go to jail, how many are left?

Bloom’s HL People Who Help Us

We are now pizza experts in reception! Can you make a pizza at home? What shapes are the toppings you have used? Take photos to show us your wonderful pizzas for show-and-tell next week. You can stick them in your home learning adventure books.

Sounds of the week:

‘ai’ ‘ee’ ‘igh’

Which words have these sounds? E.g. tree, explain, high

Hi all,

I am hoping that your child has come home very excited, telling you all about their amazing learning this half term. We have found that the children are really enjoying the recent ‘superheroes’ topic and that their learning is spilling over to their time at home too! If not, have a look at the home learning pyramid from a few blog posts ago for some inspiration!

The children have been very interested in what heroes can eat in order to make them strong and have been counting with foods, writing about them and now even growing them! We have been planting tomatoes, peppers, parsnip and leeks- but to name a few-and hopefully will enjoy the fruits (well, vegetables) of our efforts very soon!

Please don’t forget that Starfish Class will be visiting Pizza Express on Wednesday, so will not need packed lunches. Seahorse Class will be making ‘english muffin pizzas’ in their absence and will be hosting a healthy pizza party with their friends!

Have a lovely week!

The Early Years Team