We have had the most amazing morning in yr R! We were fascinated by the frost and the ice and spent most of the morning exploring the ice in our area. The language and conversations generated by the children were amazing.

Trixie exploring name writing in the ice.

Problem solving together… ‘how can we break the ice?’

What we have been learning this week at school and need to practise at home…

Letters and Sounds:

er

Tricky words/high frequency words:

her

Numeracy:

Practical addition and subtraction eg two bears are having a picnic, one leaves, how many are left? Another four join, how many are there now?

Context/Topic

Remember to dip into the context pyramid in your child’s home learning adventure book!

Today a mysterious letter turned up in our classroom…from a witch and not just any witch, the witch from Room on a Broom!!

She was asking for our help to complete a new potion she was trialling to turn her broomstick into a rocket!

In order to help her we had to think of as many words as we could that rhyme with cat. We were so excited by this letter many of us spent our disovery time looking for objects around the classroom that rhyme with cat and even writing our own potions for the witch!

I was so impressed with our rhyming skills…well done everyone!

Miss Rhoades

What we have been learning this week at school and need to practise at home…

Letters and Sounds:

ear, air, ure

Tricky words/high frequency words:

they

Numeracy:

Practical addition and subtraction

eg I have two bags of sweets… in this bag there are 5, in this bag there are 4, so 5 add 4 equals…(count the total number of sweets altogether)

R.E

Also, as of next week we start our Revelations unit in R.E. In the home learning diary there is a page set out for Revelations home learning. Have a look at this page and have a go at completing some RE home learning with your child. If you are unsure of anything please come and talk to your child’s class teacher, we are more than happy to help!

We hope you had an amazing Christmas break and had a wonderful New Year!

We wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your kind words, cards and gifts you gave us before Christmas and were overwhelmed by your generosity and kindess.

Now that the children have started their spring term of Year R we wanted to give you an update on the new context we are learning about. Prior to Christmas we asked the children what they wanted to learn about and a large majority wanted to learn about artists and painters! We are therefore now exploring all of the areas of learning through this exciting new topic and even have our very own art gallery in Starfish class!

We will post our home learning on the website later on this week.

See you all soon!

The Early Years Team

Wow we cannot believe this is the last week of term…the Autumn term has flown by!

Last week we all made a Christingle. The children all identified the various parts of the Christingle and what each part represented.

We hope you enjoyed talking about the Christingle with your child at the weekend.

This week there will be lots of bits and bobs for you to have at home as we are busy creating Christmas crafts and thinking about Christmas during our Literacy and Numeracy.

Thank you so much to all of the parents and carers who came to our Nativity this week! We are so proud of all of the children and would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the parents and carers who gave up their weekends to make costumes and rehearse the nativity words.

Thank you for all of your support!

Miss Rhoades and Miss Moncreaff

What we have been learning this week at school and need to practise at home…

Letters and Sounds:

oo, ar, or

Tricky words/high frequency words:

no, go

Numeracy:

We have exploring and naming common 2D and 3D shapes and exploring their properties.

Eg circle, square, rectangle, triangle, cube, sphere, cone

A huge thank you to all of the wonderful parents/carers that came on our walk to the Church today. It was a wonderful service and a big well done to Reception who sat respectfully and listened to Father Kevin attentively.

A reminder that RR (Starfish class) are walking to the post box tomorrow at 9:30am and RM (Seahorse class) are walking Wednesday at 1:30pm.

Thank you for your continued support!

Miss Rhoades and Miss Moncreaff 🙂

Letters and Sounds:

ai,ee,igh,oa

Tricky words/high frequency words:

my, was

Numeracy:

We have been ordering our numbers from 0-20

If your child has words to remember for the Nativity please also recap these at home.

Thank you!

Miss Rhoades and Miss Moncreaff