So hopefully the week ahead will be the start of another new normal with all of the children returning to school as usual.

It has been amazing to see the joint efforts between school and home to ensure the children have still been learning and progressing during these difficult times. 

Our blog page will continue to show lots of the activities we will be doing at school as we still want you to be part of your child's learning and feel included. Home learning though is all bout you supporting the learning again rather than doing it at home each day.

However, in order get the  children back into a routine again could you return to supporting the children with their apps and weekly reading routines again.

For the F2 children in particular we would like to see them :-

Using their Doodlemaths app to keep within their green zone. This will help to reinforce all of the concepts we will have been teaching them at school.

Reading their weekly reading books at least three times and completing the supporting writing activities designed to reinforce the sounds and words that have been introduced in their reading books. The Reading Eggs app is an additional app that can help to reinforce their phonics and reading.

We can also return to posting achievements on Tapestry both at school and at home just to celebrate successes rather than as a means of communicating home learning. We really do value your posts from home.

Book bags should now be brought in again each day so they are available to us whenever we can catch a few moments to read with your child. They put these into their individual boxes which will prevent other children from coming into contact with them.

So what are we getting up to during the week ahead?

Watch our story for the week below

 

On the 4th March the whole school will be celebrating World Book Day!

It has been a tricky year for the children starting their education within the Foundation Unit.

 

As a result, we have decided to explore the topic of “Superheroes” this half term. A major focus, responding to experiences the children have had recently, will be to concentrate on PSED skills (Personal, Social and Emotional Development) We will be learning how Superheroes look after each other and have special superpowers to help solve problems.

 

Meet our KPNS Superheroes who will be guiding the children through their activities

Our F1 overview showing activities this week

Our letters of the week are 'j' (Jumping Jack) and 'w' (Wiggle down, up, down, up, the worm) 

- Click here to visit Evie and Dodge for an introduction then on another day  click here to have a look at the alphabet songs about each letter. 

 

One of your challenges is the I spy game which is attached at the bottom of the blog but here is an extra little clip if you need an activity one morning. I would pause the video each time in order to give your child enough time to have a really good look for the I spy object

Don't forget you can also do any of the F2 activities if they take your fancy!

Our F2 overview showing activities this week

We are asking you to write a few simple sentences this week.

As well as using the letters 'j' and 'w' in words during our phonics lessons we will be looking at the two different sounds that the digraph 'th' can make. take a look at the video below.

 

Activities that both F1 and F2 children can join in with.

Here are lots of the links to the activities on your overview sheets.

Take a photo of yourself wearing all of your winter clothes then make a mini me picture where you or your grown up talk about and label your different clothes. Whys not do a painting of yourself in your winter clothes if you have a paint set at home.

 

 

To finish off our topic linked to the snow and ice why not make an ice lolly!

What clothes do you need to get dressed for a winters day?

 

 

 

A slight change to our usual blog.

To make the activities more accessible to the younger children in Meadow Class we have set out two overview sheets for the week. One for the F1 children and one for the F2 children. We would love to see more of the  F1 children  getting in touch so we really want you to get some photos and comments on your Tapestry journals. We miss you and we love to see what you have been getting up to! (Plus, Mrs King and I are in charge of checking that you are doing okay so don't be surprised if you get a call from us to say hello and how are you doing)

As a result we have broken down the activities a little more and sorted them into F1 activities, F2 activities and activities that ANYONE can do! Even Grannies and Grandpas!

So, first of all - here are the F1 tasks for this week of learning, whether you are at home or doing them at school. We will all be doing the same.

Here is the overview sheet but the  links and challenge sheets are all on the blog below for easy access. Use this blog as a way of just clicking on one of the activities further down .

F1 Children

Click here  to visit Evie and Dodge to hear them find out about the letter 'e'

And join in with the alphabet song all about 'e'  - click here

 

 

Do you like eating eggs? What is your favourite way? Look how many different ways you can use eggs!

Whilst you are making something with eggs why not use the egg boxes to do your counting challenge this week

F2 children

The F2 children have a couple of things the same as well as some slightly harder challenges.