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May 2022

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  • OUR NEW BIG IDEA: READY, STEADY, GROW!

    Published 24/05/22, by Kerry Inglis

    We are very excited to announce our final topic before the summer holidays commence.

    Our topic is 'Ready Steady Grow '... Your child will take part in practical activities to explore where food comes from. They will learn what seeds and plants need to grow and grow a variety of plants. They will explore what constitutes a healthy lifestyle, including eating fruit and vegetables, exercise and the importance of teeth brushing. They will find out about life on a farm and about baby animals.

    Supporting your child at home

    • Visit your local library and find books about farms to share.
    • Visit a local farm or farm shop (Harker's farm shop is lovely, it has a viewing area where the children can spot lots of different animals)
    • Watch Cbeebies episodes of 'Down on the Farm' 
    • Make a shopping list together and go to the shops to buy the food. Look at the labels- where has the food travelled from - is it from the UK or somewhere else? 
    • Grow some quick growing plants or make a cress head.
    • Talk about healthy foods.
    • Share and discuss the 'Big Idea' resource below (also attached as a PDF for clearer viewing). 

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  • Beatfeet 2022

    Published 18/05/22, by Wendy Boon

    We have been having a lot of fun dancing and drumming on Thursday and Friday mornings. 

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  • OUR WORLD AND OUR QUEEN!

    Published 11/05/22, by Kerry Inglis

    This week, we will be consolidating all the information we have found out about the wonderful world that we live in! We will ve revisiting all of our big ideas questions and key vocabulary. We will be setting up the classroom in the style of different countries. We will be making passports, boarding a pretend plane and checking in and experiencing different activities from all around the world! 

    We will be watching and singing along to this lovely version of 'What a Wonderful World' 

    We will be finding out about the Queen's Jubilee - 70 years on the throne! We will be making flags, crowns and some yummy treats to celebrate! 

    Watch this lovely animation... After a sudden burst of wind in Buckingham Palace, the Queen's hat gets carried away around London. Fortunately, a trustworthy guard and a playful corgi run after it!

    The children are wowing us applying their phonics skills to their reading and writing - keep up the super work little explorers!

    Have a go at this game at home (the children love it in school) - you have to blend the word and see if it's treasure (real) or rubbish (nonsense word). Select phase 2 or 3 and the special friends your children know.

    Phonics Play- Buried Treasure Game 

    Here are a few speedy sounds lessons you could watch at home with sounds the children are finding particularly tricky.

    The children are trying so hard to spot special friends in their reading-here are some videos to show you how we teach reading to children called 'word time' which we do daily in our phonics sessions. 

    Here is a video showing how we spell words using our 'Fred Fingers', we use this strategy to help segment words to hear all the sounds and then pinch the sounds to help us match them to letters when writing.

    For our F1 children, have a listen to this Fred Talk game, helping children blend sounds together!

     

    We are continuing our White Rose topic on 'Find my Pattern', we will be focusing on sharing and grouping.

    Check out this numberblocks episode, exploring patterns that make 10. 

     

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  • All around the world!

    Published 11/05/22, by Kerry Inglis

    The children are really enjoying our 'Big Wide World' topic. This week we will be focusing on the big ideas question 'How do we travel around the world?'. We will be looking at different modes of transport and talking about which ones are practical for travelling long distances. We will also be comparing past and present modes of transport and talking about how transport has changed over time. 

    We are lucky to have our topic come to life, with Mrs Gerrard going on holiday this week! We will be following Mrs Gerrard's journey, tracking her on a map on the cruise ship she is on! How exciting. 

    We will also be sharing the great book 'Coming to England', an uplifting, true story about Floella's journey from Trinidad to London, overcoming adversity and making friends. Have a listen at home...

    Check out these brilliant CBeebies episodes .... Stories about the everyday lives of children living in countries around the world.

    We are so proud of how hard the children are working in their phonics sessions. It would be great for this learning to be consolidated at home, reading their new reading books or ditties with them at home a couple of times a week. Let us know how they get on by writing a comment in their reading diary. 

    Here are a few sounds the children are finding particularly tricky, have a watch of the RWI videos to help the children embed these special friends in their reading and writing. 

    Have a go at this phonics play game- a fun blending game where you can sort real words into treasure and nonsense words into trash (select phase 2, 3 or 4 depending on which sounds your children know). 

    We are also working on our drawing skills in class, have a go at drawing along with Squiglet at home! We would love to see your drawings!

     

    This week we will be starting our white rose topic of 'Find my pattern', we will be looking at what the word doubling means, and applying it using different resources. Have a look at the overview below, can you have a go at one of the challenges?  

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  • WE ARE ALL UNIQUE!

    Published 05/05/22, by Kerry Inglis

    We are continuing our 'Big Wide World' topic... We will be exploring how everyone around the world is unique and that is what makes the world such a special place! We will be sharing different stories that celebrate diversity and exploring different cultures and communities from around the world. 

    Have a listen to this lovely book 'One World Together'- Where would you like to visit in the world?

    We will be talking about how we are all wonderfully unique... Have a listen to this story, you could then have a go at one of the home learning challenges attached to the blog post below. As always, we'd love to see what you get up to on Tapestry or bring your creations into school.

    The children are trying so hard with their reading and their writing, huge thank you for everyone supporting this at home. Check out these Read, Write, Inc videos to help children embed sounds they are finding particularly tricky.  This week it is special friends 'sh' and 'th'. Special friends are sets of letters that make one sound. In this case, two letters that make one sound. As always, we love seeing your reading at home and your lovely writing that comes into school!  

    Have a look at some of these writing ideas for children to apply their phonics skills at home.

    For the children in F1, can you blend together what Fred is saying in this Fred talk video.

    In Nursery next week, the children will be focusing on their voice sounds and the different sounds they can make. Here are some activities that you could try at home.

     

    We are starting our White Rose topic on First, Then and Now and solving number problems (see Handa's surprise blog post for more information on White Rose topic breakdown).

    Here are some ideas you could try at home linked to our topic.

    This is also a great game, if the children are feeling up to a tricky problem-solving challenge! 

     

     

     

     

     

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