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It was a short week in school, but we have still been busy.There are only one or two children still to return their indoor shoes – please try to do this as soon as possible. It really does help to keep the carpet clean for us to sit and play on comfortably.

Literacy

• We drew detailed story pictures about using our imaginations – see more information under outdoor learning.
• We continue to read books in school – we love discussing the funny illustrations and making predictions about what might happen next in the story. We are excited to be taking the first steps on our reading journey.
• We continue to introduce and reinforce some single sounds and have been using them to create and read words. This week’s letter was g, and we made words including gap, get, pig, got and dig
• We enjoy listening to and discussing a wide range of texts

Home learning ideas:

Please support us by spending some time at home practising the skills of blending the sounds to create and read words – a little often is the best way.

We will occasionally send an home learning activity idea in the purple folder, so please continue to empty the bag and check the contents regularly.

• Download this Home Learning Template d o g On the sheet you will find the letters we have been learning this week along with a list of words to create. You can choose to print the sheet, or simply write out the letters of small pieces of paper. Use the letter cards to create simple words and ask your child to firstly, identify each sound, count how many sounds (phonemes) they hear, then blend or squish the sounds together into one word. Next, say a word which can be made using the letters. say it slowly and clearly – asking your child to identify the sounds they can hear before they ‘make’ the word with the cards.

• Go on a letter hunt. Look around you for places where you can see any of the letters you know. Remember to say the pure sound of the letter not the name. ( so a= ah, not ay )
• Ask an adult to write all the names of the people in your family. Who has an ‘i’ in their name….. who has an ‘ a’ (etc)
• Play a game of “I spy” with our focus sounds.
• Encourage your child to make their name in different ways: in the sand, with flour, play dough, etc.
• If your child cannot yet write their own name, please practise this at home. Lower case letter please ( apart from the initial letter of course)

Numeracy & Maths

• We have been learning our ,number bonds of 10. These are the pairs of numbers which fit together to make ten

 e.g.

1 +9 / 9 +1

2 +8 / 8 +2

3 +7 / 7 +3

4 +6 / 6 +4

5 + 5

10 + 0 / 0 +10

• We ave been exploring numbers to 10 20, or 30  with matching activities.
• We have been practising instantly making and recognising finger patterns. Doing it on our head ( the bunny ears game) makes it a bit tricky as we can’t see our fingers, we just have to feel the pattern.
• We have been working on recognising numbers and identifying pairs patternsPairs patterns
• We have explored numbers to 10 (and beyond for some)
• We have worked on sequencing numbers.
• We have worked on counting forwards and backwards from different starting points.
• We have been naming the next number in a forwards or backwards sequence

Home learning ideas

• Count items using 1-1 correspondence. Put down a quantity of small items, for example raisins, buttons, counters, small stones or lego bricks. Ask your child to count them carefully, pointing to, or moving each one in turn. can they count the total accurately? Increase the level of challenge by using a larger collection.
• Number hunt: Ask your child to look for specific numbers in the street: buses, house numbers and ask your child to say the number that goes after and before that number.
• Practice number formation of the numbers 0 to 10 (or more if your child is confident with this already)
• You may choose to play this game. Please choose from sequencing or ordering (forwards) from 1- 10 or 1-20
• Play Three for me, one for you . The adult says three numbers in a sequence, either forwards or backwards, the child says the next number in the sequence. e.g. 6,7,8………9  or 14,13, 12…….11. You can choose the level of challenge by staying within 10, or going up to 20.

• Play this game to help you create and name regular 2D shapes. We have used an ipad version of this in class.

Other areas of the curriculum:

Learning to use the ipad to record evidence of our learning activities.

Spider facts – we have been learning to appreciate spiders. Did you know that a Wolf spider does not spin webs but lives under logs?

PE – we did some fitness stations in the playground to raise our heart rates and keep wam

On PE days the children should come dressed for outdoor PE, there is no need to bring a PE bag with a change of clothes. On these days, we would ask that the children wear trainers or similar for the playground and PE. It is really hard to hop when you are wearing wellies ! (Wellies are ideal on non-PE days though)

Outdoor learning: 

We tried to make Mandala patterns, but it was too windy and our leaves kept blowing away! We still had lots of fun collecting leaves and planning how to stop them blowing away.

We went to the woods and read the story ‘Not a stick’

You can watch the story  here

We collected sticks and used our imaginations to find different ways to play with them. We used our ideas to help us draw visual stories when we got back to class.

Independent learning:

• These are some photos of the learning through play that we had the opportunity to experience this week: we particularly enjoyed exploring our fantastic new Kapla box. It has 1000 pieces !
  

• NUT FREE reminder – As we have a number of pupils in school with nut allergies, please help us to ensure their safety by keeping nutty snacks at home. This includes nut-based chocolate spreads in sandwiches.     Many thanks.

We are very proud of our Terrific Tigers!

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s learning.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

We had our class photo taken to share at assembly today. We said Goodbye to Mrs Ritchie as she starts her retirement.

Literacy

• We have started using reading books in school – we love discussing the funny illustrations and making predictions about what might happen next in the story. We are excited to be taking the first steps on our reading journey.
• We continue to introduce and reinforce some single sounds and have been using them to create and read words. This week’s letters were e and h, and we made words including hen, men, and hat
• We enjoy listening to and discussing a wide range of texts including stories called Marvellous Max, Ada Twist – Scientist, and  Rosie Revere -Engineer

Home learning ideas:

Please support us by spending some time at home practising the skills of blending the sounds to create and read words – a little often is the best way.

We will occasionally send an home learning activity idea in the purple folder, so please continue to empty the bag and check the contents regularly.

• Download this Home Learning Template e h  On the sheet you will find the letters we have been learning this week along with a list of words to create. You can choose to print the sheet, or simply write out the letters of small pieces of paper. Use the letter cards to create simple words and ask your child to firstly, identify each sound, count how many sounds (phonemes) they hear, then blend or squish the sounds together into one word. Next, say a word which can be made using the letters. say it slowly and clearly – asking your child to identify the sounds they can hear before they ‘make’ the word with the cards.

• Go on a letter hunt. Look around you for places where you can see any of the letters you know. Remember to say the pure sound of the letter not the name. ( so a= ah, not ay )
• Ask an adult to write all the names of the people in your family. Who has an ‘i’ in their name….. who has an ‘ a’ (etc)
• Play a game of “I spy” with our focus sounds.
• Encourage your child to make their name in different ways: in the sand, with flour, play dough, etc.
• If your child cannot yet write their own name, please practise this at home. Lower case letter please ( apart from the initial letter of course)

Numeracy & Maths

• We have been exploring numbers to 10 20, or 30  with matching activities.
• We have been practising instantly making and recognising finger patterns. Doing it on our head ( the bunny ears game) makes it a bit tricky as we can’t see our fingers, we just have to feel the pattern.
• We have been working on recognising numbers and identifying pairs patterns Pairs patterns
• We have explored numbers to 10 (and beyond for some)
• We have worked on sequencing numbers.
• We have worked on counting forwards and backwards from different starting points.
• We have been naming the next number in a forwards or backwards sequence
• Counting and number recognition
• We have been learning to copy, create and continue patterns

Home learning ideas

• Count items using 1-1 correspondence. Put down a quantity of small items, for example raisins, buttons, counters, small stones or lego bricks. Ask your child to count them carefully, pointing to, or moving each one in turn. can they count the total accurately? Increase the level of challenge by using a larger collection.
• Number hunt: Ask your child to look for specific numbers in the street: buses, house numbers and ask your child to say the number that goes after and before that number.
• Practice number formation of the numbers 0 to 10 (or more if your child is confident with this already)
• You may choose to play this game. Please choose from sequencing or ordering (forwards) from 1- 10 or 1-20
• Play Three for me, one for you . The adult says three numbers in a sequence, either forwards or backwards, the child says the next number in the sequence. e.g. 6,7,8………9  or 14,13, 12…….11. You can choose the level of challenge by staying within 10, or going up to 20.

• Play this game to help you create and name regular 2D shapes. We have used an ipad version of this in class.

Other areas of the curriculum:

PE – we have been practising throwing, catching and passing a ball – big ones and small ones. It is quite tricky, so please keep practising at home.

On PE days the children should come dressed for outdoor PE, there is no need to bring a PE bag with a change of clothes. On these days, we would ask that the children wear trainers or similar for the playground and PE. It is really hard to hop when you are wearing wellies ! (Wellies are ideal on non-PE days though)

Outdoor learning: 

We looked for signs of Autumn and collected some beautiful leaves

We also learned how to make rubbings of different textures and patterns in the playground..

Independent learning:

These are some photos of the learning through play that we had the opportunity to experience this week:

• NUT FREE reminder – As we have a number of pupils in school with nut allergies, please help us to ensure their safety by keeping nutty snacks at home. This includes nut-based chocolate spreads in sandwiches.     Many thanks.

• The children’s spare clothes are kept in the classroom in the cubby holes close to their shoes.
• It would be really helpful if all your child’s items could be labelled (packed lunches and water bottles too)
• Please be mindful when choosing a snack for your child: make sure your child can open it independently. We are also a nut-free school.
• We politely ask that you give your child only water in their bottles.
• We still have no claimants for the lost property items which we posted two weeks ago, please have another look to see if you recognise anything.

We are very proud of our Terrific Tigers!

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s learning.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

Literacy

• We continue to introduce and reinforce some single sounds and have been using them to create and read words. This week’s letters were s and i, and we made words including sit, pat, in, sat and pant.
• We enjoy listening to and discussing a wide range of texts.
• We practised our scissor skills by cutting out a spiral snake at the same time as having a discussion about the letter s.
• 

Home learning ideas:

• Download this  Home Learning Template 25.9 On the sheet you will find the letters we have been learning this week along with a list of words to create. You can choose to print the sheet, or simply write out the letters of small pieces of paper. Use the letter cards to create simple words and ask your child to firstly, identify each sound, count how many sounds (phonemes) they hear, then blend or squish the sounds together into one word. Next, say a word which can be made using the letters. say it slowly and clearly – asking your child to identify the sounds they can hear before they ‘make’ the word with the cards.

• Go on a letter hunt. Look around you for places where you can see the letters s, a, t, p, ,i,  n.
• Ask an adult to write all the names of the people in your family. Who has an ‘i’ in their name….. who has an ‘ a’ (etc)
• Play a game of “I spy” with our focus sounds.
• Encourage your child to make their name in different ways: in the sand, with flour, play dough, etc.
• If your child cannot yet write their own name, please practise this at home. Lower case letter please ( apart from the initial letter of course)

Numeracy & Maths

• We have been exploring numbers to 10 or 20 with matching activities.
• We have been practising instantly making and recognising finger patterns. Doing it on our head ( the bunny ears game) makes it a bit tricky as we can’t see our fingers, we just have to feel the pattern.
• We have been working on recognising numbers and dot patterns (to 10).
• We have explored numbers to 10 (and beyond for some)
• We have worked on sequencing numbers.
• We have worked on counting forwards and backwards from different starting points.
• We have been naming the next number in a forwards or backwards sequence
• We are working on number formation. – this week’s numbers were 8 and 9
• Counting and number recognition
• We have been continuing to explore the properties of 2D and 3D shape.

Home learning ideas

• Count items using 1-1 correspondence. Put down a quantity of small items, for example raisins, buttons, counters, small stones or lego bricks. Ask your child to count them carefully, pointing to, or moving each one in turn. can they count the total accurately? Increase the level of challenge by using a larger collection.
• Number hunt: Ask your child to look for specific numbers in the street: buses, house numbers and ask your child to say the number that goes after and before that number.
• Practice number formation of the numbers 0 to 10 (or more if your child is confident with this already)
• You may choose to play this game. Please choose from sequencing or ordering (forwards) from 1- 10 or 1-20
• Play Three for me, one for you . The adult says three numbers in a sequence, either forwards or backwards, the child says the next number in the sequence. e.g. 6,7,8………9  or 14,13, 12…….11. You can choose the level of challenge by staying within 10, or going up to 20.

• Play this game to help you create and name regular 2D shapes. We have used an ipad version of this in class.

Other areas of the curriculum:

PE – we have been continuing to practise the tricky travelling  skills of hopping, skipping, galloping sideways, toe to heel walking and jumping with both feet together. We also have been learning to play some games which help us to develop our speed, travelling, and listening skills. Ask your child to show you their skills – you will be impressed!

On PE days the children should come dressed for outdoor PE, there is no need to bring a PE bag with a change of clothes. On these days, we would ask that the children wear trainers or similar for the playground and PE. It is really hard to hop when you are wearing wellies ! (Wellies are ideal on non-PE days though)

We used sticks to practise creating 2D shapes.

Independent learning:

These are some photos of the learning through play that we had the opportunity to experience this week:

• NUT FREE reminder – As we have a number of pupils in school with nut allergies, please help us to ensure their safety by keeping nutty snacks at home. This includes nut-based chocolate spreads in sandwiches.     Many thanks.

• The children’s spare clothes are kept in the classroom in the cubby holes close to their shoes.
• It would be really helpful if all your child’s items could be labelled (packed lunches and water bottles too)
• Please be mindful when choosing a snack for your child: make sure your child can open it independently. We are also a nut-free school.
• We politely ask that you give your child only water in their bottles.
• We still have no claimants for the lost property items which we posted two weeks ago, please have another look to see if you recognise anything.

We are very proud of our Terrific Tigers!

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s learning.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

Literacy

• We have now shared all the memory boxes which have been brought into school. if your child has not yet brought theirs and would still like to do so, please send it to school as soon as possible.
• We continue to introduce and reinforce some single sounds and have been using them to create and read words. This week’s letters were n and p, and we made the words pat, pan, nap, tan, tap an and at
• We have started to create visual stories in our jotters – We visualised a situation, then recreated the image by drawing lots of detail. We used our pictures to  help us re-tell the story. This process helps us to develop some important pre-writing skills.

Home learning ideas:

• Download this  Home Learning Template 18.9. On the sheet you will find the letters we have been learning this week along with a list of words to create. You can choose to print the sheet, or simply write out the letters of small pieces of paper. Use the letter cards to create simple words and ask your child to firstly, identify each sound, count how many sounds (phonemes) they hear, then blend or squish the sounds together into one word. Next, say a word which can be made using the letters. say it slowly and clearly – asking your child to identify the sounds they can hear before they ‘make’ the word with the cards
• Here is a copy of P1 Reading – Information for parents which was emailed out earlier this week.

• Go on a letter hunt. Look around you for places where you can see the letters p, a,  t or n.
• Encourage your child to make their name in different ways: in the sand, with flour, play dough, etc.

Numeracy & Maths

• We have been exploring numbers to 10 or 20 with matching activities.
• We have been practising instantly making and recognising finger patterns. Doing it on our head ( the bunny ears game) makes it a bit tricky as we can’t see our fingers, we just have to feel the pattern.
• We have been working on recognising numbers and dot patterns (to 10).
• We have explored numbers to 10 (and beyond for some)
• We have worked on sequencing numbers.
• We have worked on counting forwards and backwards from different starting points.
• We have been naming the next number in a forwards or backwards sequence
• We are working on number formation. – this week’s numbers were 2, 5, 6 and 7
• Counting and number recognition
• We have been exploring the properties of 2D and 3D shape.

Home learning ideas

• Play the bunny ears finger pattern game. Watch this video of a boy playing with his mum.
• Number hunt: Ask your child to look for specific numbers in the street: buses, house numbers and ask your child to say the number that goes after and before that number.
• Practice number formation of the numbers 0 to 10 (or more if your child is confident with this already)
• Count items: ask your child to give an X number of things: leaves, stones, sticks.
• You may choose to play this game. Please choose from sequencing or ordering (forwards) from 1- 10 or 1-20
• Play Three for me, one for you . The adult says three numbers in a sequence, either forwards or backwards, the child says the next number in the sequence. e.g. 6,7,8………9  or 14,13, 12…….11. You can choose the level of challenge by staying within 10, or going up to 20.
• Play this 2D shape game

Other areas of the curriculum:

PE – we have been continuing to practise the tricky skills of hopping and skipping. We also have been learning to play some games which help us to develop our speed, travelling, and listening skills.

On PE days the children should come dressed for outdoor PE, there is no need to bring a PE bag with a change of clothes. On these days, we would ask that the children wear trainers or similar for the playground and PE. It is really hard to hop when you are wearing wellies ! (Wellies are ideal on non-PE days though)

We discussed facial expressions and emotions and used natural materials to create some faces. Can you tell how these ‘people’ were feeling today ?

On Friday we were able to access our outdoor loose parts shed again. We had great fun developing a wide range of physical, co-operative, creative and investigative skills.

Independent learning:

These are some photos of the learning through play that we had the opportunity to experience this week:

• The children’s spare clothes are kept in the classroom in the cubby holes close to their shoes.
• It would be really helpful if all your child’s items could be labelled (packed lunches and water bottles too)
• Please be mindful when choosing a snack for your child: make sure your child can open it independently. We are also a nut-free school.
• We politely ask that you give your child only water in their bottles.
• We still have no claimants for the lost property items which we posted last week, please have another look to see if you recognise anything.

We are very proud of our Terrific Tigers!

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s learning.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

Over the first few weeks we are working on class/school routines. All children have settled well into school. It is lovely to see how new friendships are developing and to hear all the chat from the children. We are happy to be moving back to our new classroom over the weekend and are looking forward to exploring our new environment next week.

Literacy

• We continue to practise our listening and talking skills through sharing our memory boxes – only a few left to share.
• We have enjoyed listening to and discussing a range of fictional books about bears.
• We have introduced the characters from the Oxford Reading Tree Programme (our reading programme).
• We have continued to practice rhyming words.
• We designed Thank you cards to say thank you to the people at St Fillan’s church for our Buckstone Bears.
• We created letters and cards using the lovely envelopes kindly donated by Waitrose.

Home learning ideas

• Share a storybook about a bear
• Find words that rhyme with a given word.
• Play a game of ‘ I spy with my little eye, something that rhymes with…..’
• Encourage your child to make their name in different ways: in the sand, with flour, play dough, etc.
• The names that we would like children to identify are: Kipper, Chip, Biff, Floppy, Mum and Dad.
• Please encourage your child to use a tripod grasp when holding a pencil.

Numeracy

• We have been exploring numbers to 10 with matching activities.
• We have been working on recognising numbers and dot patterns (to 10).
• We have explored numbers to 10 (and beyond for some)
• We have worked on sequencing numbers.
• We have worked on counting forwards and backwards from different starting points.
• We are working on number formation. – this week’s numbers were 0, 1, 3 and 4
• Counting and number recognition

Home learning ideas

• Number hunt: ask your child to look for specific numbers in the street: buses, house numbers and ask your child to say the number that goes after and before that number.
• Practice number formation numbers 0 to 10 (or more if your child is confident with this already)
• Count items: ask your child to give an X number of things: leaves, stones, sticks.
• You may choose to play this game. Please choose from sequencing or ordering (forwards) from 1- 10 or 1-20

Other areas of the curriculum:

PE – we have been focusing on developing our travelling skills – walking, running, jumpoing with two deef together, hopping, skipping and ‘toe to heel tightrope walking’

Bears – we have been learning about different types of bears – black bears, brown bears, polar bear, Pandas and recognising that Koala’s are NOT in fact bears. You can listen to this song for more information.

Outdoor learning: 

On Monday we were able to access our outdoor loose parts shed. We had great fun developing a wide range of physical, co-operative, creative and investigative skills.

Independent learning:

These are some photos of the learning through play that we had the opportunity to experience this week:

and more……….

Other Information

• PE on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• We ask that the children bring shoes which they are able to put on and take off independently.
• It would be really helpful if all your child’s items could be labelled (packed lunches and water bottles too)
• Please be mindful when choosing a snack for your child: make sure your child can open it independently. We are also a nut-free school
• We politely ask that you give your child only water in their bottles.

We are very proud of our Terrific Tigers!

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s learning.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro