20.10.23
Hello children, parents and carers,
I really can’t believe that today we have finished our first half term! The time went so quickly! But we also achieved and learnt so much…from exploring the classroom, to remembering our friends names, from being brave to come in without mummy and daddy, to forming lovely friendships. We learnt lots of new graphemes and solved many mathematical problems. We practiced singing and dancing, read lovely books and played musical instruments. From being insecure and not sure how to write our names we are now beginning to write our first CVC words. Absolutely impressive!!!
In Little Wandle this week we played lots of games, thinking about initial sounds, orally blending words like C-A-R and D-O-G, and remembering all the graphemes and phonemes learnt so far. As already mentioned we also spent the week assessing the children and finding out how to support them if needed. Please make sure you check your children’s book bag for Little Wandle packs. They will help you practice all the phonemes we’ve learnt so far. Please also check your child’s Tapestry account as I will be adding some useful information on how to support your child at home.
In Maths this week we talked about patterns. We’ve learnt that patterns are not just made of colours or objects, but also in books, songs, actions. We talked about things we do every day like wake up, go to school, go home, wake up, go to school, go home… We’ve read the book ‘We are going on a bear hunt’ and spotted the pattern in that book to.
In English we continued reading and discussing the book ‘Where the wild things are’. The children had brilliant ideas and that led to a wonderful conversations. We went on a journey, made wild masks and danced listening to some rumpus music. Why don’t you show your grown ups our spectacular dancing at home too:
The wild things are wild, but we were even better in being wild 🙂
RE
Thank you so much for bringing in lots of lovely things from your child’s Baptism. It’s been lovely sharing them with the rest of the class and adding them to our display. We also created our own church and the children are really enjoying to go in, say a prayer and role play a Baptism.
Harvest assembly
Thanks to all who were able to come by and make it a memorable experience for us. The children did really well singing and doing the actions. Your generous donations are much appreciated!
A very special thank you to Mr De Casa. He was our surprise visitor this week. He talked about his profession of being a surgical nurse. After his talk we’ve had a class full of future doctors and nurses 🙂 If you would like to come in and talk about your profession please do not hesitate to contact me. I am sure the children would love it 🙂
Dates to remember:
30.10.23 – St Albans library visit (Please remember to bring a filled membership form or a library card, so your child can borrow a book)
A very special invitation – As now the children are all settled, we would love you to come and read with us every Friday morning from 8:35 am to 8:50 am.
Have a fun filled half term break!
Mrs Solakova