Wednesday 2 October 2019

weekly news 3rd October

This week we have started our 'Letters and Sounds' and 'Maths' sessions in our groups.
In 'Letters and Sounds' this week we have been learning about words which rhyme and we made some very 'silly soup' ! The ingredients which we added to our soup all had to rhyme-for example cat and bat. Can you ask your child if they can remember any of the other ingredients that we put in our silly soup ? Perhaps you could talk to your child about words which rhyme.
In 'Maths' this week we have started to learn all about 'Numicon'. The children have been learning to recognise each different shape and which number it represents and we have been putting the Numicon shapes in order to 10.
We have also started doing 'Dough Disco' on 4 mornings a week. Each child has a little pot of playdough and we are learning to do different 'moves' with our hands to squeeze, roll, pinch and flatten the dough in time to music. This is lots of fun and helps to develop the muscles in our hands and fingers which will help the children to use scissors, paint brushes, pencils, and all tools. The children are very excited to get stronger muscles !
Over the next week we will be showing the children how to use our Woodland area. They will be learning how to put their puddlesuit or trousers on and also their wellies. Up on our Woodland area we have a large mudpie kitchen, a bird watching area, a large construction area and a swing. Please feel free to take your child's puddlesuit home from time to time to wash it !
Thank you very much to all the parents who have returned the reply slip about the information meeting next Wednesday 9th starting at 2pm in the Lower School Hall. We will be explaining all about how we teach children to read and how you can support them with all their learning at home too.
If you have offered to help on our Autumn Number Hunt next Thursday morning please meet us by the parent's gate near the Doctor's surgery at 9:30am and we will bring the children to meet you. The walk will be around the village, across the Common and we aim to be back at school at 10:30am. Please wear suitable footwear and make sure that your child has a coat with a hood in case of rain.

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