Category: Our Classes

13.01.23

It was so lovely to see everyone after the holidays and hear all the amazing stories and experiences the children have had during the festive season.
I would also like to take the opportunity and thank you all for the lovely gifts. We are beyond thankful!

In RE last week we talked about Epiphany and the children created an amazing Epiphany display. Have a look yourself:

This week we began a new topic and in the next 4 weeks we will be talking about Local Church – Community/Celebrating. The children will be learning that the Christians belong to the local church community – the parish, which celebrates in a variety of ways. That they celebrate tradition and story and find their meaning in Jesus.
So, as part of the new topic we held a special celebration, back to school party, and what is a party without a cake… or in our case without a cupcake. The children were busy mixing all the ingredients and baking delicious cupcakes:

Next week we will write our very own invitations!

Little Wandle
In Little Wandle this week we began learning phase 3 sounds. Please check your child’s pink folder for all phase 3 sounds sheet and a homework.

This week we introduced 3 new digraphs and a trigraph.

As always I highly recommend that you practice the new digraphs/ trigraph every day, as this would really build fluency and will boost your child’s confidence.
No new tricky sounds have been taught this week, because we are currently reviewing the ones already learned in Autumn term.

Maths
This week, the children used their perceptual subitising skills (seeing the quantity without counting) in increasingly complex arrangements, moving from dots in a line and arrangements of 2, to a focus on standard dice arrangements. Towards the end of the week we played lots of fun dice games like snakes and ladders and the children were encouraged to subitised the dice dots instead of counting.
If you happen to play a dice game over the weekend, please take some time and post it on Tapestry so we can celebrate in class.

Our new role play is up and running and the children are having so much fun selling and buying healthy fruit and veg. As you all know we love learning while playing, so our Market helps us talk about healthy and unhealthy choices, lot’s of counting, measuring and social skills are involved in our Play. Here are some pictures of our busy, busy day 🙂

And finally please check your child’s book bag for Spring term homework grid. You are welcome to do all the activities or choose at least 3 of them. Then you can either post them on Tapestry, email a photo to the office or bring a copy to school.
Please let me know if you have any difficulties accessing Tapestry.

Have a fantastic weekend.
Looking forward seeing you all on a Monday!
Mrs Solakova

16.12.22

What a week it’s been!!! Full of surprises….

On a Tuesday we had our dress rehearsal and actual performance in one go… The children were absolutely fantastic! Did you hear all the singing? Little superstars. Well done EYFS for being so confident on the stage. I can’t describe how proud you made me feel.
BIG Thank you parents for supporting us in learning the lines, providing outfits and simply being there for us.
News, News, read all about it!!!

To finish off the week we had a scrumptious Christmas dinner! And guess what… all the teachers were serving us the food! What a treat!

And finally… our special visitor! Santa checked that we had all been good and then gave us presents! Thank you Santa for the lovely surprise!

Have an amazing weekend!
Looking forward seeing you all next week!
Mrs Solakova

09.12.22

Hello parents,

What a week we’ve had. With lots of practising, trying the costumes, singing the songs and remembering the lines. The children are getting better and better and are super excited to show you everything they’ve learned next week.
We made a beautiful wreaths to decorate our classroom and also to help us remember that the wreath represents God’s love, has no beginning and no end. We added 5 more characters on our advent calendar and tried to keep the promises we made.

Little Wandle
This week, as mentioned in my previous blog, I was assessing the children and also we revisited our tricky words. Well … the tricky words proved to be very tricky, so they were all around the classroom during learning to play. We played a special fly swatter game on the carpet, competing against each other. So much fun ….

In our sand tray we were decorating a christmas tree and the baubles were tricky words. Such a great way to play and learn at the same time.

The tricky words are so tricky because we can’t decode them, which means that we have to sight read them. Please make sure that you practise them with your child every day as this would really help them remember and use them confidently. New words are added each week and you can find them in your child’s orange book.

What a lovely finish to the week… we planted a tree and carefully filled the whole making sure the tree is nicely tucked under the soil. Hope our tree will grow big and strong for many years to come.

Dates:

Tuesday 13th December 10:30 am – EYFS Christmas performance.
Thursday 15th December Christmas Jumper and Party Day…if we are lucky a special visitor – HO!HO!HO!!
Friday 16th December – deadline for KK gifts (please find the sticker in your child’s reading record)

Thank you very much to all the families who have sent in their clothes for our Nativity. If you have not already done so, please aim to send them in Monday morning. If you have any problems getting hold of the items, please let me know.

Next week we will visit the library on a Friday morning.
Friday reading mornings – 8:45am to 9:00 am.
Our reading practise books need to be returned by Monday. Please make sure that they are in the zippy bags together with tricky words book and reading record.

To all the families with ill children, I am wishing you a very speedy recovery and hope to see you all back to school on a Monday morning.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Mrs Solakova