We have been learning about how important it is to clean our teeth.

It needs to be part of our bedtime routine and our morning routine too.

Listen to the catchy song!

Take a look at the very practical way we have been learning about cleaning our teeth!

 

For next week we are turning our attention to bedtime routines and actually getting to sleep!

Watch the lovely animation of one of our favourite stories. 

Another lovely story all about getting to sleep  is Peace at last.

 

Letters that we will be getting to know this week are......... letters that make the 'c' sound. 

 

We will be talking about sleep a lot this week so we will also be looking at the special friends 'ee'

Visit Evie and Dodge to reinforce these sounds at home or sing along with an alphabet song and play I spy with words that start with our letters of the week.

Can you blend the letters together to make simple words?

 

Mr Tumble is going to teach us some useful signs for bedtime this week

Our nursery rhyme this week is Hickory Dickory Dock

There will be lots of talk too about 'who helps to keep us safe whilst we are asleep?'

In fact - does everyone go to sleep at the same time?

We will be talking about the signs we see that tell us it is time for bed and the routines we do to get ourselves ready. There are lots of rhyming words in this story. Can you spot them?

Our maths focus this week ...... We will be looking into the different ways we can make 4 and 5 as well as introducing the children to squares and  cube shapes.  We will be using the lessons from our White Rose Maths scheme using the Light and dark lessons from week 2. If you want to take a look at these at home click here

For our story this week we get to meet another child who dreams of shooting off into the dark to explore!

As part of our topic about starry skies we are going to be doing a lot of looking up this week.

We met the astronaut Chris Hadfield in last week's story and this week we will be finding out about Mae Jemison, the first Afro-American woman in space.

We are also very interested in learning about the people who write and illustrate our books this term so when we can, we will show a video of them either reading the books they have written or talking about how they went through the process of making the book.

The sounds that we will be learning in conjunction with our story are the single sounds 'l' for leg and look! and 'u' for up and umbrella!

   

Visit Evie and Dodge to practice these new sounds. What words can you think of that start with a 'l' or an 'u''?

or sing an alphabet song!

How about having a go at blending sounds together to make words starting with l

 

The special friends have been chosen as they make an alternative 'u' sound. They are 'oo' look at a book!

Our nursery rhyme this week is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We are going to learn the signs to accompany this favourite song.

Later in the week we will be finding out a little more about Mae Jemison the Astronaut.

Next week we are still learning all about numbers 1 to 3. However, we are looking more closely at how to create the number 3. For example that 3 can be made by putting 2 +1 objects together. In school we will be looking at some of the white rose activities which you can also access at home.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/its-me-1-2-3-week-2/

For our movement and physical development we will be having a space dance lesson.

 

To get our fingers and hands ready for pressing lots of space rocket buttons we will be doing these tricky exercises too each morning. These take a little practice and a lot of concentration. We are just going to try exercise 1

Other stories we will be looking at this week

How to Catch a star by Oliver Jeffers

Underneath the love umbrella by Davina Bell