22 May
Dear Parents,
Those children who went to the beach had a super time, and we started some crafts and activities with that theme last week. One of the popular activities was to think about what we saw, smelt, felt and heard when the children were at the beach. On the children's return they worked in small groups to think about the words they used and put them into a computer picture.
The children have enjoyed making pictures and using shells and stones to collage.
We will be continuing these activities this coming week.
For those of you who made cakes for the summer fair, it was unfortunately cancelled. However the cakes were sold on Friday to raise some money, and there is a new date for the fair after half term.
For those of you who entered the 'bake off' with your child, along with Reception we raised just over £100, so many thanks from us and Janet Emerton who collected the money on behalf of SENSE.
AG
Sunday, 22 May 2016
Sunday, 15 May 2016
we are off to the beach !!
15th May
Dear Parents,
We had a good week last week, with lots of the children talking about energy, exercise and keeping our bodies healthy. we had a lovely time making lots of different sandwiches, talking about healthy fillings both savoury and sweet. The children have been making a graph to show the most popular choices. Giving them lots of opportunities to count and estimate.
Another counting activity which was very popular was the scootathon, most of the children took part on scooters and bikes, a few children even chose to run and run and run!!, and we have recorded the laps.
The children have also been learning about sun safety, making a picture to show what you need to be sun safe.
This week we will be going to the beach, we have some activities planned for when we are there. including collecting shells, pebbles, driftwood etc. digging, and making sandcastles, and much more. There will be lots of photographs to see. So we will be planning our next two weeks activities based on the trip on Tuesday.
IF YOUR CHILD IS COMING ON THE TRIP AND YOU HAVE NOT SIGNED A PERMISSION SLIP PLEASE DO SO TOMORROW. WE CANNOT TAKE YOUR CHILD WITHOUT ONE.
AG
Dear Parents,
We had a good week last week, with lots of the children talking about energy, exercise and keeping our bodies healthy. we had a lovely time making lots of different sandwiches, talking about healthy fillings both savoury and sweet. The children have been making a graph to show the most popular choices. Giving them lots of opportunities to count and estimate.
Another counting activity which was very popular was the scootathon, most of the children took part on scooters and bikes, a few children even chose to run and run and run!!, and we have recorded the laps.
The children have also been learning about sun safety, making a picture to show what you need to be sun safe.
This week we will be going to the beach, we have some activities planned for when we are there. including collecting shells, pebbles, driftwood etc. digging, and making sandcastles, and much more. There will be lots of photographs to see. So we will be planning our next two weeks activities based on the trip on Tuesday.
IF YOUR CHILD IS COMING ON THE TRIP AND YOU HAVE NOT SIGNED A PERMISSION SLIP PLEASE DO SO TOMORROW. WE CANNOT TAKE YOUR CHILD WITHOUT ONE.
AG
Sunday, 8 May 2016
Health and safety week
9th May
This week we join the school for a Health and Safety week.
We will be thinking about sun safety, talking about the need for hats and sun cream.
On Tuesday we have the opportunity to visit the life education van, where we will talk about how important sleep and exercise is to our body, also learning about a healthy breakfast.
We are also going to have a healthy sandwich week, using vegetables, fruit and cheeses to make different sandwiches.
We will be holding our annual scootathon, which will help the children talk about exercise, crash helmets and the need to be safe and water to keep our bodies working.
We also hope to spend some time on the school field, running and playing games, then thinking about what we need and how we feel when our bodies do lots of exercise.
SOUNDS AND LETTERS. will be lots of songs about our bodies and more alliteration and rhyming.
Last week we planned the week based on the children's interests and learning, for example, some of the children had a great time learning and exploring fossils, others loved drawing pictures of blossom from my tree, and a small group enjoyed the story of Alfie and Annie Rose finding a worm in their apple, and how you can make shapes and even letters when we peel apples with a knife !
Also we have had all three of the 'Shark in the Park' stories and the children have been asking for the 3 stories at every story time!
So along side our theme we will be continuing this way of planning as a thread through our learning throughout the rest of the year.
AG
This week we join the school for a Health and Safety week.
We will be thinking about sun safety, talking about the need for hats and sun cream.
On Tuesday we have the opportunity to visit the life education van, where we will talk about how important sleep and exercise is to our body, also learning about a healthy breakfast.
We are also going to have a healthy sandwich week, using vegetables, fruit and cheeses to make different sandwiches.
We will be holding our annual scootathon, which will help the children talk about exercise, crash helmets and the need to be safe and water to keep our bodies working.
We also hope to spend some time on the school field, running and playing games, then thinking about what we need and how we feel when our bodies do lots of exercise.
SOUNDS AND LETTERS. will be lots of songs about our bodies and more alliteration and rhyming.
Last week we planned the week based on the children's interests and learning, for example, some of the children had a great time learning and exploring fossils, others loved drawing pictures of blossom from my tree, and a small group enjoyed the story of Alfie and Annie Rose finding a worm in their apple, and how you can make shapes and even letters when we peel apples with a knife !
Also we have had all three of the 'Shark in the Park' stories and the children have been asking for the 3 stories at every story time!
So along side our theme we will be continuing this way of planning as a thread through our learning throughout the rest of the year.
AG
Monday, 2 May 2016
Mini beasts
2nd May 2016
This week we are going to finish our theme by making a group mini beast picture, using our hide and seek book for inspiration. We are also going to use ladybird templates to count and group dots, and also in craft activities .
Our books this week will be the same as last week, the 'Shark in the park', ' Shark in the park on a windy day' and Shark in the dark'. We will be using these books along with our 'oi frog' book to concentrate on listening, rhyming and alliteration.
At home alliteration is fun, instead of saying a simple word , alliterate!, for example,
'go and get your c-o-a-t., c-a-t , c-a-r, etc, and see if your child can tell you what the word is. Simple words are best and easier to guess.
Lots more gardening and outside play to explore and enjoy so fingers crossed for some warm weather.
Mr Butcher our site manager is away for 2 weeks so the pool will have to close, that is followed by our beach trip, then after our return from half term school transition afternoons start for Prince of wales school, so we will not have much swimming time. I will be looking at the timetable with Alex to try and fit in swimming where we can.
Thank you all for the lovely family pictures, so many of the children have been looking at the pictures with their friends, talking about families and who is in their family. It's not too late if you want to bring in a picture of your family for our display.
AG
This week we are going to finish our theme by making a group mini beast picture, using our hide and seek book for inspiration. We are also going to use ladybird templates to count and group dots, and also in craft activities .
Our books this week will be the same as last week, the 'Shark in the park', ' Shark in the park on a windy day' and Shark in the dark'. We will be using these books along with our 'oi frog' book to concentrate on listening, rhyming and alliteration.
At home alliteration is fun, instead of saying a simple word , alliterate!, for example,
'go and get your c-o-a-t., c-a-t , c-a-r, etc, and see if your child can tell you what the word is. Simple words are best and easier to guess.
Lots more gardening and outside play to explore and enjoy so fingers crossed for some warm weather.
Mr Butcher our site manager is away for 2 weeks so the pool will have to close, that is followed by our beach trip, then after our return from half term school transition afternoons start for Prince of wales school, so we will not have much swimming time. I will be looking at the timetable with Alex to try and fit in swimming where we can.
Thank you all for the lovely family pictures, so many of the children have been looking at the pictures with their friends, talking about families and who is in their family. It's not too late if you want to bring in a picture of your family for our display.
AG
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