Year 5 Descriptive Writing
Year 5/6 have been writing their own setting descriptions this week.
Caring and Sharing – Explorers Topic
1,2V were visited by 5,6C this week so we could share what we had learnt during our Explorers topic. It was great having a real audience to share, discuss and reflect on learning.
PE reminder
A reminder that both classes have PE on a Thursday. Please make sure your child has their PE kit: a white t-shirt and blue shorts.
Thank you!
Magic Maths Facts
We’re working really hard learning our maths facts. You can support your child at home by helping your child to learn these facts ‘by heart’. Creating a little quiz, testing each other or using a timer to increase recall at speed can make this fun too.
Well done to our Golden Star.
Fun with Phonics
This week the children have learnt 3 new sounds – g, o, c. You can watch and sing along to the jolly phonics videos at home.
The children have enjoyed playing games such as Cross the River to help them segment and blend CVC words.
We introduced phoneme frames to the children this week. We use phoneme frames to practise the skills of segmenting. For example:
Show your child the pictures below and see if they can segment the words and write them in a phoneme frame.
Don’t forget to tell us about any Wow moments that happen at home!
Armistice Day
On Friday, we talked to the children about Armistice Day. We talked about how it marked the day World War One ended on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.
The children worked together to make poppies (which turned out to be a great fiddly fingers activity) and some children decided to draw a poppy.
World Nursery Rhyme Week
If you’d like to find out more about the importance of rhyming, there are also some links to documents that explain why nursery rhymes and playing games involving rhymes with young children are so important.
What are the 5 rhymes for 2017?
The 5 rhymes for the ‘Rhyme a Day Challenge’ are:
Monday 13 November: ‘Bobby Shafto’.
Tuesday 14 November: ‘Lavenders Blue’.
Wednesday 15 November: ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’.
Thursday 16 November: ‘Wind the Bobbin Up’.
Friday 17 November: ‘Old King Cole’.
Home Link – Whatever Next
Can you read the story ‘Whatever Next’?
Tell your key worker your favourite part and get a star on your handprint!
If you don’t have a copy at home, you could visit the library or listen to a CBeebies bedtime story reading of ‘Whatever Next’ on-line.
Firework fun!
What a colourful week it’s been……
We’ve had another busy week in Nursery as we shared our bonfire adventures with our friends. There were lots of wonderful paintings and pictures inspired by the fireworks that everyone saw. We thought about the different sounds we heard and used our voices, instruments and streamers to recreate them. The children absolutely loved creating the huge firework paint pictures outdoors, which included getting very messy indeed! Such large scale activities are brilliant for helping to develop the children’s physical skills as they make ‘big movements’ with their arms. As we talked about bonfires, we thought about how hedgehogs sometimes hibernate within them. We decided to make our own playdough hedgehogs and tell them not to hide in the bonfires (all whilst using our counting to put on matchstick prickles of course!). The children really extended their vocabulary of capacity as they played in the blue water this week. Filling the different sized containers and using the piping attracted lots of different children into the water area which also allowed new friendships to develop.
What we are learning this week?
After lots of interest in fireworks and rockets, talk naturally led us to outer space and the moon! We’ll be using the book ‘Whatever Next’ as a stimulus throughout our areas of provision. We shall be re-telling the story using the book, pictures and small world props to develop our speaking and listening skills. In the large construction, there will be lots of space and moon themed resources to inspire our very imaginative children in their play. We’ll use our counting skills and ‘fiddly fingers’ to add craters to the (playdough) moon and thread pipe cleaners carefully into the holes of colanders – after reading the story, the link will become apparent! Our challenge, set by the children, is to make the water ‘even darker’ and then together, we will all think about what ‘space’ inspired objects we need to add and how we can make our own colanders for water to trickle out of.
Next week is a nationwide ‘Nursery Rhyme Week’ developed to encourage the sharing of nursery rhymes in settings and in the home. Sharing such rhymes and songs is very important in helping early language development and is, therefore, something we do continually within our activities. The focus rhymes this year are ‘Bobby Shafto’, ‘Lavenders Blue’, ‘Hickory Dickory Dock, ‘Wind the Bobbin Up’ and ‘Old King Cole’. These will be sung within key workers sessions along with lots of our other favourites.
Let’s talk numbers!
This week we have been focusing on the number 5. First, we watched the Numberblocks video. Then we found 5 objects to put on our number focus table.
We then looked at building models using 5 bricks. We found that even if the model is a different shape or size, it’s still 5!
Next week, we’ll be looking at number stories using pictures.
For example, 3 sheep are on the hill and 2 sheep are in front of the barn so 5 sheep altogether. I can see one more sheep next to the rocks. Ask your child how many there are now.