Term 2,Week 7

Welcome to the final week of term! What an amazing term we have all had. We have all worked so hard and made some fantastic achievements and I can say you all deserve a well earned Christmas Holiday! Everyone has used their stickability and made some amazing learning progress. We are all so proud of everything that you have accomplished this term. Thank-you for your continued support at home!

In our final week we have some really special activities planned, including our class party! We are so excited to celebrate Christmas this year and we are going to make it extra special with lots of fun activities and special guests. We can not wait! We will be singing Feliz Navidad as a whole school, you can practice this song at home as well.  As you all know we put all our efforts into our online Nativity carols this year- stay tuned to see our Reception Nativity published this week. We are sure it will bring a smile to your face like it has done for us. 

Happy Christmas from everyone in Class 2 and we hope everyone has a great New Year!

Notices

Celebration Assembly

Our Reception Stars last week were:

Class 1 – Amaya Akhtar

Class 2 –  Evelyn Turner

Class 3 –  Eliza Choudhry

Nativity Songs

We hope that you all enjoyed the video of our Nativity songs that we sent out on Friday. If you have not been able to access it please let Mrs Browne know via the class 3 email. 

Next week we will be singing the Christmas song Feliz Navidad with the whole school. 

Christmas parties

Our Christmas parties are on Thursday afternoon. The children can wear their party clothes all day however we will still be playing outside earlier in  the day so please make sure your child has a coat and outdoor shoes.

Please provide your child with a small savoury party tea such as sandwiches and crisps. We will be providing cakes and drinks. We are expecting a special visitor during the afternoon.

Last day of term

As usual the last day of term is a non uniform day.

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

Look after your wellbeing as the excitement and tiredness mount! Try a wellbeing activity each day:

  • Monday – Feelings: Roll a dice and everyone make the expression for that emotion – or play in teams. Download: Christmas Race to the top
  • Tuesday – Kindness: Tell someone why you are going to miss them in the holidays
  • Wednesday – Try something new: Sit by someone new at lunchtime
  • Thursday – Thankfulness: What made you smile today? Can you tell a Christmas joke?
  • Friday – Mindfulness: Colour in strips of paper to make paper chains

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. This week we will continue reading and talking about  the story ‘Spinderella’ by Julia Donaldson. 

You can watch the story being read here Spinderella by Julia Donaldson

Physical

Exploring Dynamic Balance further in PE

Enjoying a Christmas themed Yoga session

Literacy

This week we will continue 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.

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

Tricky words:

We will also be recapping all ‘Tricky’ words so far that cannot be blended but need to be learnt by sight. Here is a list of the tricky words we have learnt so far:

I, no, go, the, to, into, he, she, we, me, be, was, you, they

Reading:

This week we will continue with our reading assessments.

Mathematics

This week we will be doing some assessment activities to check each child’s recognition and understanding of number facts to 10.

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

Understanding the World 

We will learn and sing Feliz Navidad as a whole school with some special visitors.

We will be listening to our friends talk about what their two week break will be like.

We will be exploring the Cbeebies Christmas games in ICT.

Expressive Arts

This week we will be adding the final sparkle to our wonderful Christmas arts and crafts.

When you realise there is only one more week of school left before Santa comes!

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