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
.. was postponed by a day this year, but was enjoyed just as much as usual – including the ever-popular Arctic roll. Here are a few “action shots”.
We have been finishing off topics this week and we can all look forward to new topics next half-term. We are loving our reading book – “The Wild Robot”, which has echoes of “Iron Man” . I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Our fantastic Eco-leaders were busy last week, planting a tree as part of our school’s contribution to The Queen’s Canopy.
We will look forward to seeing our sapling shoot in the spring and its growth in years to come, as it adds to the beauty of our school grounds and becomes a home for a wealth of life in the eco-system of our school grounds.
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
This week we saw the amazing talents of our budding pop stars, with the fantastic “Rock Steady” concert on Monday.
We have been very busy practising words for the parts and songs in the carol concert. Well done to everyone who is making a huge effort to deliver their lines slowly, clearly and loudly and to those children who suddenly became understudies, due to the original actors being stricken by one of the nasty bugs going around just now.
Thank you for the RE home learning. The children have thought carefully about the qualities needed to be a prophet today – people who follow God’s path and emulate Jesus, such as Marcus Rashford, David Attenborough or parents.
I hope you all have a bug-free, relaxing and healthy weekend!
As part of our learning in English and science, we have been reading the story of The House Held Up by Trees by Ted Kooser. It is a beautiful book and as a result of reading it, we planted sweet pea seeds and a tree that will be part of our schools contribution to The Queen’s Canopy. We have been learning about different sentence types and we wrote command sentences to give clear instructions on how to plant seeds. Our handwriting has got better and better this term and we are very proud of it.
First of all, put on a pair of gloves.
Next, fill up a pot with soil.
Make three holes in the soil.
Put a sweet pea seed in each of the holes.
Cover up the seeds with soil and water the soil. The seeds will germinate early in the spring.
We planted a tree as part of the Queen’s Canopy initiative.
Despite so much illness in school, we are busy preparing for our Christmas play and we are looking forward to performing it to you on 14th December.
And just like that it’s already December. Where are the weeks going.? We had lots of buzz around the classroom when everyone was talking about advent calendars, chocolate and Santa. What a better way to celebrate the beginning of Advent than decorating the classroom? We were busy wrapping presents, making Christmas cards, and practising, practising, practising for our Nativity.
Next week we will be making our own stockings for the fireplace! It was very exciting that we can now use our Little Wandle learning and write letters to Santa independently.
We’ve been retelling the Nativity story and the children had lots of fun using the small world area and pretend to be Mary, Joseph, King or Shepherd. We even did a story map to help us remember the sequence of the story.
In Little Wandle this week we revisited all the graphemes and digraphs learned so far. We’ve been focusing on words with ‘s’ at the end (plurals and verb forms) and learned 3 new tricky words:
be me we
Over the next week I will be carrying out Little Wandle assessment with every child. Please keep a look out for any extra sound or word cards in your child’s reading folder, these are the ones they are not yet secure with. Please look at these daily with your child and make any relevant comments in their reading record. As always, BIG THANK YOU for supporting us in this journey!
Things to remember:
Monday 2:30 pm Library visit – You are very welcome to join us! 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.
Looking forward seeing you all on the Christmas Disco!!! Mrs Solakova
With Advent, carol concert practice and classroom decorations, Christmas is really on its way. The children have their names for their Kriskringles. We have been talking about what we can do during Advent, the period of preparation for Christmas; and the children suggested that doing small daily acts of daily kindness is one way of showing love for one another, in the way that God showed his love for people by sending Jesus. We are practising songs for the carol concert in earnest and looking forward to seeing you at the concert on Monday 12th. We are learning this fantastic Christmas song. Please could you practise it at home. Thank you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lnYDohCNSM
The classroom looks very festive.
The children’s fantastic explanation writing is on display – either on the or in one of two books. This week they completed a very different piece of writing, retelling “FaRther” with a different ending, when they used personification, similes, expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials to write figuratively. In both cases every child focused and wrote incredibly well.
In Maths we’ve moved onto applying multiplication and division facts. The children are using the correct terminology for division; and used practice of the facts using manipulatives to make generalisations about division. For example, the class worked out that if the dividend and the quotient are the same, then the divisor has to be one. Or, if the dividend and divisor are the same, then the quotient must one 1. Today they have been constructing sentences like “The product of 8 x 4 is 32” or “6 x 3 is the same as 3 x 6 because of the commutative rule in multiplication.” Can your child explain these terms to you, in different contexts?
Please remember the deadline for the Called RE home learning which is 8th December.
Today was the last session of Gaelic Football which the children really loved. I will send a thank you email to Rory of Herts GAA for providing this first-class coaching to the school.
The children have been getting excited for Christmas this week and they like looking at the decorations we have in class. We read a story this week about a little boy who writes a letter to Father Christmas asking for different presents. We talked about the presents we would like to receive and on Monday we drew a picture of what we would like. Yesterday we went to the Post Box to send our letters to Father Christmas, the children went in small groups and posted their letter into the box – how exciting. We also went into the Post Office and saw a huge pile of boxes ready to be delivered to people’s homes.
This week we said goodbye to the Post Office, we had a great time working on the computer, talking on the telephone and writing our letters! We now have Santa’s Workshop! The children enjoyed going in there in small groups to see what they could do in there – wrapping presents for Santa.
Photos from this week.
The children are still practising their songs for our Christmas Nativity and I am sure they are singing them at home. Our performance is at 10:30am on Tuesday 13th December. Please remember that costumes need to be in school by Monday 5th December.
