Our school trip

Please keep your eyes open in your child's bags later this week for the letter about our school trip and it's meeting - thanks.

Down to Earth

Hi everyone, I hope that you are all feeling as refreshed as we do after the break. The weather has been amazing today so we are hoping that it's staying for the Summer Term!

We have started our new theme today which is called "Down to Earth" and will involve planting different seeds, finding out about the needs of plants and looking at insects and minibeasts - all very exciting stuff.

In numeracy this week we are looking at capacity and in literacy we will be looking at instructions with the book "How to plant a Sunflower". Our creativity will be expressed with observational drawing of flowers and plants.

As always please ask if you have any questions. Thanks.

Red Nose Day

Thanks to many of you that popped along to help out on Friday - it helps so much and obviously we wouldn't have been able to get wet in the stocks if you hadn't have been there so thank you (I think!)

Phonics

Just a quick reminder that the phonics workshops are this week on Monday afternoon and Wednesday evening.

Phonics for this week

You will be correct in thinking that we have already introduced these sounds but we feel that they are important enough for us to spend an extra week ensuring that the children can "use and apply" these sounds within their writing.

Phonics groups

As you may know we have separated the children into phonics groups to enable us to give each group a phonics session to meet their needs. These are the sounds we have been learning.

Happy new year!

I find it hard to believe that this is my first Blog of 2009 - what have I been doing???

Our theme for this term is called "In my dreams" and is a mixture of princess fairy tales and monsters - we will leave you to decide which your child will prefer.

We will be concentrating more on writing now and encouraging the children to write more often during busy times. In numeracy we have been looking at sorting objects using colours, sizes and shapes.

In our knowledge and understanding work we are looking at materials with particular attention to whether they float or sink and if they are waterproof.

For our creative work we will be making clay monsters so if you are at a loose end please feel free to pop in and offer a hand!

As always - if in doubt please ask!