Important Dates! 
 

Wake Up Shake Up Outcome for Caterpillar Parents - Thursday 27th November - 9am -9:30am (Home learning to follow) 

Wake Up Shake Up Outcome for Ladybird Parents - Friday 28th November - 9am - 9:30am (Home learning to follow) 

Monday 1st December - Grandparent's Craft Morning - Flyer to follow  (9am - 10:30am) 

Starting School 

The children have made a fantastic start to school! 

They have learned the different classroom rules and routines and are beginning to make new friendships! They are doing brilliantly at lunchtimes and this week, once they have finished eating, they are able to explore all the outside areas of the school! The Trim Trail was extremely popular today! 

If you are able to, please send in a pair of wellies for your child to wear during Discovery Time (Year R learning play) and during lunch time play. We will keep the wellies on our welly boot racks and this will enable the children to access the mud kitchen and sand pit in the wet weather. You can send in a pair daily if this works better for you.  

Please remember to send your child in with their school bag and a water bottle. Please check your child's bag regularly for letters or information sent home by us. 

There will be a member of staff on the gate each morning so please leave any message with them and they will pass it on to your child's teacher. Staff are always available at the end of the school day so please do come and have a chat with us then. 

Phonics 

We are starting to learn our phonics! 

We will learn 4 sounds every week. Here is what we will cover each week. 

3/11 - ll ff ss j 

10/11 - v w x y 

17/11 - z zz qu ch and words with /s/ on the end 

24/11 - sh th ng nk 

1/12 - Words with /s/ on the end where s makes /s/ (cats, pins) or /z/ (bags, his)

We will learn the phoneme (sound), words that start with our phoneme and how to write the grapheme. 

We will link lots of our play to our sound of the day! 

Please go to the Little Wandle website for videos which show the pronunciation of the phonemes. 

https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/  

We will also be playing lots of listening games and will be teaching the children to blend sounds orally to work out a word. 

We might ask children to put their hands on their 'h-ea-d' or go and get their 'b-a-g'. 

We have started to blend 3 sounds. We are working on the words 'sat, tap, sit, pat, tip, sip, dip, man, pan, map'. Please use your sound cards to make these words at home. Thank you!  

Wake Up Shake Up!  

Oh dear, the teachers have returned to school and are struggling to get themselves 'ready to learn'. When they try to write their hands get tired and their cutting is a disaster! Their muscles have lost all their strength so they need to find ways to make their muscles stronger! Each day, the class will engage in a different activity to develop their gross motor or fine motor skills. This will help the children to get ready for writing! The children will take part in  Activate movement sessions where they will work at crossing the midline (A skill that is crucial for writing because it enables you to move your hand across the page from left to right, and it helps develop a dominant hand, which is important for better handwriting). There will also be dough disco sessions, where children manipulate playdough to music! There will be a focus on cutting skills, ensuring children hold the scissors correctly and learn to cut on the line. 

Home Learning 

This will begin with our first project after half term 

Vocabulary 

During this project, we will be introducing the children to some specific vocabulary. The children will learn a definition for each of the vocabulary words and will learn to use them orally in sentences. Please explore these words with your child. 

movement     muscles      healthy    pinch     grip      knead 

Year R Tricky words 

Here is a list of tricky words that we will be learning to read from memory in Year R. 

Autumn Term 

I     the     is    as   and    has    his    her    into    to    no   go    he   she   we   be    me    of     pull     push    full    put   

Spring Term 

was      are    all      they     my      by    you      pure      sure   

Summer Term 

said    so    have    like     some      come    love    do      little     were    here     says     there     when    what     one    out    today

Year R Information 

Our school gate opens at 8.40am and registration takes place at 8.50am. We finish at 3:15pm. 

We have PE on a Thursday. Please take out your child's earrings before they come to school. PE bags will be sent home at half term to be washed. 

Please ensure that your child has their reading folder in their school bag everyday. All children will need to bring their bag and water bottle in everyday. Please regularly check your child's bag for letters. 

Thank you to all the parents who have named their child's clothing. This really helps us out!