Week Ending 07/06/24
Date: 29th May 2024 @ 4:53pm
Happy Friday! What a fabulous, sunny we have had! Reception had an amazing day at the farm on Wednesday They were exceptionally well behaved and had so many opportunities to learn about life cycles and the farm.
Dates for the diary this half term:
Thursday 13th June – iSingPOP Concert 2pm at St Helen’s Church. Please do come and watch your child take part in the iSingPOP project. If you would like to help walk us down then please do let the office know.
Monday 17th June – Sports Day 9-10am (Fingers crossed the weather will hold for us)
Wednesday 10th July- Our Year 6 buddies are coming to watch our End of Year Show dress rehearsal! Again, we would be very grateful for walkers down to the Baptist Methodist Church in the morning and then back again. You may want to grab a coffee in the middle as we don’t want to spoil the show for you! Thank you.
Friday 12th July - International Mud Day celebrations- messy clothes needed! Please see below for more information.
Wednesday 17th July – End of Year Show at the Baptist Methodist Church starting at 9:15am. If you are available to help either class walk down then let the class teacher know please. We will need walkers from 8:55am ish!
Thursday 18th July – PTA BBQ (Come and join us on the playground after school for our annual BBQ to celebrate your child's wonderful first year of school!)
Friday 19th July – Last day of Reception. School closes at 1:30pm.
International Mud Day – Mud, Glorious Mud! (Minor change in date from the original)
On Friday 12th July, we will be celebrating the annual event that is International Mud Day. In the afternoon, children are given the opportunity to wallow in mud, cake themselves in clay, indulge in some body painting and squish gloop to their hearts content. We believe that Mud Day gives children the opportunity to connect with nature and show them how amazing and brilliant mud can be, and the range of ways it can be used and enjoyed. Whether that’s squelching, splatting, splashing, stirring, scooping, sprinkling or stamping, playing in mud is one of the best parts of being 5! The children need to wear messy clothes that you don’t mind getting muddy/may need throwing away. Please bring a towel and a spare change of clothes for them to get dressed into warmer attire at the end of the day.
Talking Point
This week we visited Park Hall Farm! We had lots of fun learning all about life on the farm, the lifecycles of animals and how to care for them. We have also had our very our eggs arrive in Reception! Hopefully they will be hatching next week. As this week’s talking point, what can your child tell you about the lifecycle of a chicken? Can they remember how a little chick is able to get out of the shell? (They have a special trick!)
Little Wandle (Phonics)
This term we move onto Phase 4 in our phonics journey! The children do not learn any new phonemes or graphemes. Instead, they are taught to further manipulate the phonemes and graphemes they have already learnt. They will begin to explore more polysyllabic words (words containing more than one syllable) and read and spell words containing adjacent consonants. E.g. string, milk, brush, scoop etc. Phase 4 requires the children to blend an increasing number of sounds together.
This week we have been focusing on CVCC and CCVC words with long vowel sounds. For example, toast, growl, steep and broom. Although there are no new tricky words this half term, it is vital that your child continues to practice these in their reading books. The Big Cat Collins Phase 4 reading books are a big jump up and focus a lot more on tricky words and more complex sentence structures. All children will move onto these books when they are ready.
On Monday, we started our new week of farm poetry. We shared lots of examples and created some rhymes as a group.
On Tuesday, we shared to story of ‘Rosie’s Walk’. The children loved this story and the fox’s journey across the farm. The children came up with lots of rhyming words for the animals from the story.
On Wednesday, we had the best day at Park Hall Farm! We enjoyed meeting lots of different animals, having a ride on a tractor and playing on the equipment.
On Thursday, we had some special visitors come to check our height, weight, vision and hearing. We also listened to the poem 'The Farmyard' which is printed in the most beautiful book called 'I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree'. We followed the structure closely to make our very own poem.
On Friday, to finish our week on farms we learnt about the lifecycle of a chicken in preparation for the arrival of our very own eggs in the coming weeks.
Congratulations to our Stars of the Week, Aarya and Maxwell!
Our mystery reader this week was Thomas B’s mum! Thank you for coming to share your story with us!
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Selwyn and Miss Woodward
