Welcome to week 6 of term 2! The children are all very excited we have now hit the Christmas month and could not be more enthusiastic to share all the exciting Christmas activities going on at home. This week we have been getting into the Christmas spirit by making some fantastic cards and making a start on our Christmas calendars. We are looking forward to sending them home for you to enjoy. We have learnt the new phonemes x, y and z (zz) and we are all doing an amazing job with our blending, thank you for incorporating reading into your daily routine at home! We have also been finding out about 2d shapes and looking for them in our classroom. 

I also want to add what a fantastic job everyone has done with learning the nativity songs in school. We think you will love our on-line nativity carols this year and are super excited to share it with you! 

We have also been busy writing a whole class letter to Santa. We then did some amazing independent letters to Santa that we would love to share with you.

This week we are continuing to work on our Christmas arts and crafts and we will also be doing assessments of what we learnt so far. We will introduce our new ELLI animal ‘spider’ and how it helps us to make connections in our learning. This week our book will be ‘Spinderella’ by Julia Donaldson. Have a great week everyone!

Notices

Reading  Thank you so much for supporting us by reading with your children daily. Nearly everyone is using the online Active reading books now. If you have a problem logging on please contact us on our class emails.

Observation Challenge

Thank you so much for all the Evidence me postcards that you are sharing with us. They are all added to your child’s learning profile.

Remember these can also be used to share any WOW moments or Celebrations  with us. Your child will share all these special moments with the class and they will also be added to the learning profiles.

Christmas Jumper Day / Christmas Day

 We are looking forward  to seeing everyone in their Christmas Jumpers on Friday and sharing Christmas dinner with them. 

Celebration Assembly

Our Reception Stars this week were:

Class 1 – Elliot

Class 2 –  Hugo

Class 3 –  Ronnie and Ernest

This weeks learning

Please click here to see the full plans if your child is in quarantine at home or waiting for a test result.

PSHE

This week, as well as continuing to support children’s wellbeing through the excitement and tiredness, we will be talking about what to do if someone is unkind. We will be teaching the children to say, ‘Please don’t do that, I don’t like it’ when someone does or says something to them that they don’t like. We will also explain to the children if they hear those words they have to stop. We are a “telling” school where children are encouraged to tell adults if they experience unkindness towards themselves or others.

Communication and Language

We continue to support development in this area by talking to the children about what they are doing, encouraging them to listen and to take turns in conversation. When watching something or reading stories we will ask questions to check that the children are actively listening and understand what is happening in the program or story. We will be reading and talking about  the story ‘Spinderella’ by Julia Donaldson. You can watch the story being read here.

Spinderella by Julia Donaldson

We will play games like I Spy,  silly sentences ( where all the words begin with the same sound) and robot talking t( breaking the words down into individual phonemes eg  r…e…d…  instead of red ) to encourage your child to listen to the phonemes in words.

Physical

PE – Dynamic Balance to Agility.

I can work sensibly with others sharing and taking turns. I can work with others, take turns and share with help. 

Dance- continuing with Write Dance

Literacy

This week we will be reading the story ‘Spinderella’ by Julia Donaldson to talk about the ELLI ‘Spider’ and how it can help us to make connections in our learning. 

Phonics:

This week we will be recapping all the phonemes that we learnt so far and learning the new phoneme qu.

We will use all the phonemes learnt so far to blend (read) and segment (spell) CVC words 

Tricky words:

We will also be learning the ‘Tricky’ word ‘they’ that cannot be blended but need to be learnt by sight.

Reading:

This week we will read in small groups and 1:1. We will continue to allocate them a home reading book from our online reading scheme. Please continue to talk to your children about their reading book, what do you think that word means? how might you describe that character? 

Mathematics

This week we  will continue to explore different ways of using numbers to 10. We will be making 10 in different ways and also practising our calculation skills and recording number stories in our own way. This might be practically, pictorially, using marks and sometimes writing numerals. 

Of course opening our Advent calendars is a great opportunity to count up to the days date and also how many days are left until Christmas!

Understanding the World 

Looking at Hanukkah

Investigating Spiders

Exploring Simple City

RE

We will be sharing the ways children celebrate Christmas or other festivals at home.

Expressive Arts

This week we will continue doing lots of Christmas Arts and Crafts,  making Christmas cards and calendars to send home.