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
Sunday, 24 April 2016
outdoors
24th April
Dear Parents,
We will be spending this week as we did last by encouraging the children to explore, learn and play outside. Taking part in lots of activities using number and literacy as well as physical games.
Many of the children enjoyed cooking last week, we will be continuing this week so everyone will have a turn. Our focus is using one handed tools with increasing control and eating a variety of foods.
The children also have some number and creative activities to enjoy with the theme of mini beasts, including ladybirds and caterpillars.
SOUNDS AND LETTERS.
We are going to continue using our book 'oi frog' for rhyming and alliteration. The children have enjoyed thinking of words to rhyme with their own names. Can you think of one at home? if so write it down and bring it in, What about other members of your family can you think of rhyming words to go with their names?
for example, frog/log, parrot/carrot, lion/iron, .
We may not be able to swim on Tuesday morning as we have our Grandparents elevenses, all grandparents welcome, please encourage them to come along.
AG
Dear Parents,
We will be spending this week as we did last by encouraging the children to explore, learn and play outside. Taking part in lots of activities using number and literacy as well as physical games.
Many of the children enjoyed cooking last week, we will be continuing this week so everyone will have a turn. Our focus is using one handed tools with increasing control and eating a variety of foods.
The children also have some number and creative activities to enjoy with the theme of mini beasts, including ladybirds and caterpillars.
SOUNDS AND LETTERS.
We are going to continue using our book 'oi frog' for rhyming and alliteration. The children have enjoyed thinking of words to rhyme with their own names. Can you think of one at home? if so write it down and bring it in, What about other members of your family can you think of rhyming words to go with their names?
for example, frog/log, parrot/carrot, lion/iron, .
We may not be able to swim on Tuesday morning as we have our Grandparents elevenses, all grandparents welcome, please encourage them to come along.
AG
Sunday, 17 April 2016
frogs !!!!
17th April
Dear Parents,
last week we were learning about tadpoles and frogs. The children were very interested in finding out how they change from frogs spawn, and grow to frogs. We played a frog counting game, made tadpoles, drew tadpoles, listened to frog stories, looked at fictional books and sang frog songs! This coming week we have more activities about frogs, tadpoles and pond life.
Also last week the children have been looking at books about families and drawing pictures of some of the people in their family. We will continue this coming week, also including friendship groups. The children also have some activities to do next week working together with friends from their 'pre school family',
Its not too late to bring in a picture of your family it can be grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins etc, whoever is in your family.
SOUNDS AND LETTERS. we have a new book to share called 'oi frog'it is funny and has lots of rhyming in it. I am sure the children are going to enjoy it.
AG
Dear Parents,
last week we were learning about tadpoles and frogs. The children were very interested in finding out how they change from frogs spawn, and grow to frogs. We played a frog counting game, made tadpoles, drew tadpoles, listened to frog stories, looked at fictional books and sang frog songs! This coming week we have more activities about frogs, tadpoles and pond life.
Also last week the children have been looking at books about families and drawing pictures of some of the people in their family. We will continue this coming week, also including friendship groups. The children also have some activities to do next week working together with friends from their 'pre school family',
Its not too late to bring in a picture of your family it can be grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins etc, whoever is in your family.
SOUNDS AND LETTERS. we have a new book to share called 'oi frog'it is funny and has lots of rhyming in it. I am sure the children are going to enjoy it.
AG
Sunday, 10 April 2016
first week of the summer term
10th April
Welcome back to the summer term, at this time we always hope that the weather will be good and we will be able to take as much learning outside as possible.
To begin the week with the children we will be looking at our 'Kipper Year Book' to see what it says for April. So lots of Spring time activities including mini beasts, frogs and tadpoles.
There will be lots of opportunities to explore and learn with numicon, small lego projects, alliteration (sounds and letters) and much more.
We will also be observing the children's learning and planning from what we see they are enjoying, so lots to look out for in the coming term.
SWIMMING.
Because of the amount of children in on a Tuesday, we may have to review the swimming timetable, watch out for a letter or blog.
As the days become sunnier don't forget hats.
AG
Welcome back to the summer term, at this time we always hope that the weather will be good and we will be able to take as much learning outside as possible.
To begin the week with the children we will be looking at our 'Kipper Year Book' to see what it says for April. So lots of Spring time activities including mini beasts, frogs and tadpoles.
There will be lots of opportunities to explore and learn with numicon, small lego projects, alliteration (sounds and letters) and much more.
We will also be observing the children's learning and planning from what we see they are enjoying, so lots to look out for in the coming term.
SWIMMING.
Because of the amount of children in on a Tuesday, we may have to review the swimming timetable, watch out for a letter or blog.
As the days become sunnier don't forget hats.
AG
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