Thursday 17 October 2019

weekly news 17th October

We were very excited on Monday when we met our class bears for the first time ! Bertie Bear is Hedgehog's class toy and Cyril Squirrel is Squirrel's class toy. In our Letters and Sounds session we found out that our class bears like to play a game in which we all have to use 'Robot talk' ! We have to stretch out the sounds in each word and move our arms like robots. This game helps us to segment words and will be a very useful skill to enable us to spell and write words when we learn the phonic sounds. We helped our bears to get dressed by saying each item of clothing in 'Robot' talk eg  's  o  c k s'    and    'h  a  t'. 
Each child will have a turn to take their class bear home to stay for a week and we would love it if you could write about their adventures in the diary which will come home with the bears. If you could upload any photographs of your child's week with the bear on Tapestry that would be fantastic because then your child can show the photographs on our big screens so all their class can see what fun they had.
On Monday afternoon we were very happy to see some of our Pre school leaders who came for our tea party. We showed them around the base and then we enjoyed listening to the story they had brought whilst we shared the chocolate krispie cakes we had made.



In Maths we have been continuing to learn all about numbers and we have been focussing on 4, 5 and 6. The children are getting brilliant at remembering the little rhymes which help them to form the numerals correctly. Hopefully you can reinforce this learning at home by using the sheet of rhymes which we sent home last week.
This week we have been learning a new creative skill by using Modroc to cover a flowerpot. Modroc is like plaster of Paris and the children have dipped the strips of Modroc into water, squeezed them out and then wrapped them around their pot. It's quite a messy activity ! After half term the children will be decorating their pot ready to plant a bulb in during our 'Come and play' sessions on Monday 4th and Thursday 7th November from 2pm. Your child will be bringing home an invitation to invite you to one of these sessions.
In November we will be starting 'Show and tell' all about our class animal. Your child will bring home a picture to decorate and a speech bubble in which we would like you to help them to write a fact about their class animal. Each house group will have a different date to show their Hedgehog or Squirrel home learning.
Thank you very much to all the parents who have been uploading all the super learning that their child has been doing at home. These observations are great to see !

We hope that you all have a lovely half term break.

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