The lovely weather this week has meant that the children have enjoyed playing outside every day using all the great open ended resources that we purchased earlier this year. They have certainly been like unicorns; using their imaginations to explore water, music, dressing up and den building activities.
There has also been great excitement indoors as our butterflies have hatched. We have enjoyed observing them in their nets and will be releasing them into the wild next week.
Notices
- This week Class 3 are going to be learning about snails. The children are telling the truth when they say that they can bring one to school!
- Class photos will be taken this Friday, 25th June.
- Advance Date Warning: We will be inviting 1 parent for each child to come to our ‘Learning Share’ time to be held on the patios. This will be a chance for you to look through your child’s work with them and then in small groups come into the classroom to take a look around and see where all their amazing learning has been taking place. You will also have the opportunity to make a parent/carer contribution to their annual report whilst you’re there. There will be more details about this in our Newsletter. The day is Wednesday 7th July The exact timings will be confirmed nearer the time.
This week’s observation challenge
Thank you for all the observations of minibeast hunting that we have received so far. Please keep sending them in this week.
This week’s Learning
The full plans are available here if you are isolating at home.
PSED
In addition to our Jigsaw and Daily Wellbeing, we will be including circle times to support friendships and play as appropriate for each class.
Our Jigsaw session this week continues our theme of “Changing me” and we will be talking about Growing up
We will also continue to do daily wellbeing activities.
Communication and Language
This week we will be reading and sequencing the well known story of ‘The Bad Tempered Ladybird ’ by Eric Carle. We will be sequencing the animals in the story.
Physical
Gross motor skills: We are going to use agility and skill as we practise some relay activities for Sports Day. This week we are going to try the sack race and bean bags in hoops.
Literacy
Phonics
This week we will be recapping all sounds and tricky words up to phase 4. We will becoming master’s of the following sounds: ar, or, ur, ow, air, ear, ure and er.
Reading
This week we will be reading with the children 1:1 or in small guided reading groups.
Please remember to try and read with your child for 10 minutes every day.
Writing
This week we will be doing some fantastic writing for our reports to share with you all.
Mathematics
We are continuing to learn all about numbers to 20:
- Recognising and writing the numerals
- Ordering numerals to 20
- Counting to 20 and back down from 20
- Knowing one more and one less to 20
- Counting objects to 20 in different ways.
This week we will be revisiting counting on and back to solve addition and subtraction problems. We will also be assessing each child’s knowledge of key facts.
Understanding the World
The World
We will be following children’s interests and will be investigating one minibeast per class. Class 1 have chosen The Great Diving Beetle, Class2 have chosen Ladybirds and Class 3 have chosen Snails.
RE
This week we are recapping our learning in the Unit “How should we live our lives?” and assessing children’s learning.
Expressive Arts
This week we will be using a range of junk modelling resources to create our own bug hotels. If you have any junk modelling boxes we could use, please could you kindly donate them to your class.