Friday 7th March

 Friday 7th March






This week, we have been reading the story of 'Supertato'.  He is a supermarket hero who saves the day when there is an evil pea on the loose!
We have discussed our likes and dislikes about the story and have explored new vocabulary such as 'gasped', 'vanished' and 'in distress'.  We have practised joining in with the reading using lots of expression in our voices.
We have even made our own Super Veggies!  We had lots of fun.


Phonics
This week in Phonics, we have ben learning about the sounds y, z, zz and qu.  We have practised writing words and sentences using these sounds.
We have started to learn the Phase 3 tricky words.


Click here to listen to the phase three tricky word song


Maths

This week, we have been learning about comparison of quantities using the language 'more than', 'less than' and 'equal to' to describe the relationship between numbers e.g. 5 is more than 4.

You may like to encourage your child to gather small quantities of objects and explore this at home.

Parent top tips!

Here is some guidance to help with bedtimes. 

The NHS recommends that 'most children aged 3 to 5 will need about 12 hours sleep each night'.  Here is some advice from the NHS to help with bedtimes.

If your child will not go to bed:

  • Decide what time you want your child to go to bed (e.g. 7 o'clock)
  • Start a "winding down" bedtime routine around 30 minutes before the time that your child usually falls asleep. Bring this forward by 5 to 10 minutes each week – or 15 minutes if your child is in the habit of going to bed very late – until you get to the bedtime you want. 
  • Set a limit on how much time you spend with your child when you put them to bed. For example, read only 1 story, then tuck your child in and say goodnight.
  • Give your child their favourite toy or comforter before settling into bed.
  • Leave a dim light on if necessary.
  • If your child gets up, keep taking them back to bed again with as little fuss or talk as possible.
  • Try to be consistent.
  • You may have to repeat this routine for several nights or longer until it is established.




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Friday 18th October

Image
 Friday 18th October This week, we have been learning the nursery rhyme 'Hickory, dickory dock'.  We have looked at a variety of clocks and noticed that all the numbers go in order.  We have also spent time talking about the timings of our school day e.g. we start our day at 9 o'clock, we eat lunch at 12 o'clock. Phonics This week we have begun Phase 2 and have introduced the letters s, a, t , p.  We have learnt the names of the letters, the sounds they make and the accompanying action. You may like to ask your child to show you these actions. We have identified words that contain these letters e.g. sun begins with 's', tip has 'p' at the end of the word. Bug Club Please check your child's reading log to see which sounds we have learnt this week. Maths This week in maths, we have been comparing quantities.  We have modelled the language 'more than' and 'fewer than' to describe how may objects are in a set. We have used a variety of ob...
Read more
Image
Friday 27th September This week we have been singing the nursery rhyme 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'. We are encouraging the children to join in with actions. We have been working on the children's use of scissors.  Lots of children have found this very challenging.  Please see the correct way to hold scissors below. Right handed scissor hold Left handed scissor hold You might like to give your child opportunities to use scissors at home.  Perhaps they could help you by snipping the tops of green beans when you are cooking.  They could practise snipping the tops of paper tubes to make models. At school we use scissors like the ones below.  If you don't have any scissors please let us know. Click here to find a link to the scissors that we use at school. Maths In Maths this week the children have been encouraged to count a small amount of objects using one to one correspondence. The counting puppet helped us learn to count amounts accurately recognising that the ...
Read more

Friday 9th September

Image
 Friday 13th September Welcome to our first blog post of this new school year! We are enjoying getting to know your children and we are pleased with how they are settling into their classes. Pictured below is our outdoor woodland area situated behind the Year R classrooms. Your child will be spending a day a week in our woodland area. We would just like to recap what your child needs to bring to school. They should bring a named, non spillable water bottle to school each day (filled with water please). On Sunny days you might like to send a named sun hat with your child.  Please apply sun cream at home in the morning and do not send it to school. Please can you put a change of clothes in your child's book bag as they may well get wet in the water tray or have an accident.  A change of clothes may include plain leggings or jogging bottoms, pants, socks and a plain t-shirt. P.E. Kit We keep your child's P.E. kit in the classroom for the whole half term.  The P.E. bag...
Read more