We started phonics today! We learnt the 'sssssss' sound today and we looked at the key word 'I'.
Keep watching this space for dates fo the Phonic workshop they will coming very soon!!!! We will hopfully do an afternoon session and an evening session to enable as many of you to come as possible.
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Snacks and Bags!
Just a little reminder about snacks. Please make sure your child only brings in fresh fruit, vegetables, dried friut or a plain biscuit. That means no flapjacks, nuts, cheese, yogurts or cereal bars. Your child only needs one snack per day as we porvide them with a snack in the afternoon.
Could we also ask you not to send your child to school with any additional bags - just a pump bag and a lunch box. I'm sure you will have noticed that the peg situation is a bit of a squeeze and extra bags mean lots of coats end up on the floor.
Thank you for your cooperation with this.
Week 5
I apologise for the lateness of this blog but the system crashed and wouldn't let me play!!!
Anyway, this week our question for learning is "Where do we live?" which is including a look at types of houses and the materials used for houses. We are linking the literacy this week with a revisit of the Three Little Pigs where we will be encouraging the children to form their first formal sentences about why the third pig's house was best! For example starting the sentence with "The brick house was best because..." rather than just starting "because..." - I hope that makes sense!?!
In number work we are ordering numbers to ten - which have been written on houses (see we are so cross-curricular!) In creative work we are building and drawing houses - both our own and those belonging to the three little pigs.
Our Ethos statement this week is "I can talk about a problem to make it better" and we have discussed problems and who we could ask for help.
To link with our topic "Marvellous Me!" we will be sending a small piece of homework home with your child this weekend which we would like you to complete together. They can draw and we would appreciate if you would help label their pictures. Thank you.
Anyway, this week our question for learning is "Where do we live?" which is including a look at types of houses and the materials used for houses. We are linking the literacy this week with a revisit of the Three Little Pigs where we will be encouraging the children to form their first formal sentences about why the third pig's house was best! For example starting the sentence with "The brick house was best because..." rather than just starting "because..." - I hope that makes sense!?!
In number work we are ordering numbers to ten - which have been written on houses (see we are so cross-curricular!) In creative work we are building and drawing houses - both our own and those belonging to the three little pigs.
Our Ethos statement this week is "I can talk about a problem to make it better" and we have discussed problems and who we could ask for help.
To link with our topic "Marvellous Me!" we will be sending a small piece of homework home with your child this weekend which we would like you to complete together. They can draw and we would appreciate if you would help label their pictures. Thank you.
Sunday, 21 September 2008
Week 4
As we were discussing at the curriculum evening we are going to dedicate this whole week to the question for learning "Who do you care about?"
We will be concentrating on the Social, Emotional and Personal areas of the curriculum and establishing our class rules and expectations for behaviour within our classrooms, at playtimes and in our lives in general.
This fits really well with our Ethos statement for this week which is "I can calm myself down and help others to calm down!" We will be reading the story When Sophie Gets Angry and discussing strategies to stay calm and control our anger (yes I'm back to the testosterone again!)
We will be using ICT to photograph our learning areas to create maps and visual timetables and using ordinal language to order events such as first, next, after that and finally. We will also be starting work on an "All about us!" display.
We will be concentrating on the Social, Emotional and Personal areas of the curriculum and establishing our class rules and expectations for behaviour within our classrooms, at playtimes and in our lives in general.
This fits really well with our Ethos statement for this week which is "I can calm myself down and help others to calm down!" We will be reading the story When Sophie Gets Angry and discussing strategies to stay calm and control our anger (yes I'm back to the testosterone again!)
We will be using ICT to photograph our learning areas to create maps and visual timetables and using ordinal language to order events such as first, next, after that and finally. We will also be starting work on an "All about us!" display.
Curriculum Evening
Can we just say a huge thank you to all of the parents who came along on Wednesday Evening. It really helps when we have these more informal opportunities to pass on information which we feel is useful to you. Please feel free to e-mail us if you have since thought of anything you would like to know.
We hope that you found the evening helpful and hopefully a little fun and we look forward to seeing you all at the phonics training!
We hope that you found the evening helpful and hopefully a little fun and we look forward to seeing you all at the phonics training!
Sunday, 14 September 2008
Curriculum Evening
Can I remind you that this Wednesday is Curriculum Evening - we are looking forward to letting you know more about the exciting things that we will be teaching your children and how they are taught and assessed.
If you haven't replied please can you do so asap.
Thanks.
If you haven't replied please can you do so asap.
Thanks.
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