What a busy week Foundation Stage! The children have enjoyed different activities both indoors and outdoors in this lovely warm weather.
Next week we are going to be celebrating the Queen's Jubilee! We have lots of exciting activities planned with more details to follow soon!
**Please can you make sure that you send a change of clothes into school with your child. The children are getting much better at using the toilets at school but sometimes they cannot always make it in time. We have a limited amount of spare clothes and we may have to start calling you to bring a change of clothes for your child. **
Nursery News
This week Nursery have been learning lots about the farm! Our construction area has been transformed into a farmyard where the children have been enjoying exploring with the different animals. We are really good at being able to make the noises of the different animals and have been starting to think about the names of the animals babies for example a baby cow is called a calf, a baby sheep is called a lamb. It would be great if you can continue to talk to your child about this at home...
In Phonics this week, we have begun reading a story called 'At the Market.' These pages are really busy with lots of people buying things at the market. For example there is a fruit and vegetable stall, one where you can buy fish and another where you can buy a smoothie.
In Maths this week we have been continuing our learning around the number 3. In our key worker group, the children were able to sort the pictures between if it had 3 objects on or not. We did really well with this activity and all the children are able to count 1,2, and 3 objects correctly. At home you could show different amounts and ask your child to count them. At the moment we are working on counting objects to 5 carefully.
Reception News
In Reception we have been looking at the traditional tale, “White Hen and the Fox”. The vocabulary words we have been learning with actions are forty winks, snooze, loaded, escape, similar, ignite, flaming and devious –. Please support your child in learning these words and the actions that go with them.
In Maths the children have been counting back from numbers up to 10 and participating in different activities exploring subtraction. We watched this Numberblocks episode - 10 Green Bottles
Talking with your children about numbers and helping them to write them correctly will also really support their learning at school.
In Phonics we continue to sing the alphabet song at the start of each phonics lesson. This week we have been learning the letter sounds, “ar as in arm” and ‘or as in fork’. If you would like to have a look with your child at some phonics activities, please use the following link -
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Username - fs phonics
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We hope you find this website useful in supporting your child's learning. Every Friday your child will bring home their phonics folders to share their learning. Please return this folder back to school on Monday. We can then add the next sounds into their books. We are also sending home helpful words for the children to learn to read and write as well as sheets that the children can use to practise writing their name,
Reminders
Reception children have their own school water bottles at school. Nursery children need to bring in a named water bottle containing water but not juice.
As the weather is getting warmer, please send a named sun hat for them to wear when learning outdoors.
Thank you for your continued support.
Next week, many of our Year 6 children will be going on their residential to Lineham Farm. We are all very excited! Please look out for photos on the school's Twitter account so you can keep up with your child's adventures!