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

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.

We just wanted to update you on our gorgeous chicks on their penultimate day with us. A massive ‘Thank You’ to Arabella’s family who have agreed to adopt our last homeless chick, Jesus. They now all have homes to go to tomorrow! The photos below show you the size difference- the first one is a picture of me at the weekend with two chicks in one hand. The second is a photo from this morning of Miss Rhoades with our biggest chick (who has actually managed to start flying a bit)! They are no longer completely fluffy as they have wing feathers and  a couple of them even have tail feathers! It has been a wonderful experience for the children as they have been able to observe and hold them as they have developed. Who would believe they are only a week old? We hope the children keep exploring and learning about the topic at home. Please let us know if your children have been doing this by putting their ideas in their home learning books.

Miss Rhoades and Miss Moncreaff

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?

We have been busy bees today exploring our chicks. Lots of us have had cuddles and one of us was even lucky enough to be the first child to get pooed on! Now that we know for sure that we have 4 girls and 2 boys their names are…

Jesus

Daniel

Aurora

Rosara

Lisa

Fiona