Important Dates!
Thursday 12th February - Caterpillar outcome 9am
Friday 13th February - Ladybird outcome 9am
This will be sent home with the home learning
Starting School
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break!
Our 'It's Christmas!' Project was a huge success in the community and the children loved reading the messages that were sent in when snowmen cards were found! We were also given a Snowman and Snowdog painted rock from a member of the community as a thank you gift! It was a lovely lesson for the children to learn how kindness is rewarded with kindness!
We are looking forward to starting our new project this half term and are very excited by the improvements that are being made to our little playground. We thank you for your patience during these works (especially if we change the door we are coming out of at the end of the day!)
Please keep practising your child's sounds, tricky words and reading books. Your support at home for 2 minutes a day really can make a huge difference to your child's progress. Please write in your child's yellow reading record book whenever you practise.
Thank you for sending in your photos on Evidence Me. We love looking at them in class so pleas ekeep sending them in. Photos and videos can be of anything. We have enjoyed seeing children conducting sports outside of school, reading books and going to some very exciting places. It has been great seeing things found on nature walks and children playing board games.
Please can you make sure your child's hat, gloves and scarves are named. This will help us return them to the correct owner if they get lost!
Phonics
We are starting to learn our phonics!
We are revisiting the digraphs sh, ch, th, ng and nk.
We will be learning 4 new digraphs each week too!
This week's digraphs are:
ai ee igh oa
During our phonics lessons we are now learning to spell words with these digraphs in them.
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 use lots of play opportunities to reinforce our phonics and tricky words.
Perfect Penguins
We had a real shock at school when we found a penguin in the fridge! Our poor penguin is lost and feeling very lonely so we have decided that the best way to cheer them up is to get them some penguin friends! We will be very busy over the next few weeks, creating lots of penguins and will then celebrate our learning with you at our art gallery.
The children will be selling their creations to raise money to buy some toys for them to play with! We will be asking for donations at the art gallery outcome so please save up your coins!
Home Learning
Coming shortly!
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.
penguin waddle huddle flipper ice tobogganing chick ice floe colony blubber
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!