Week Ending 20/12/24
Date: 1st Dec 2024 @ 12:15pm
Happy last day of the Autumn term! It seems like only yesterday that we were writing the first blog of this academic year congratulating the children on a fantastic first term of school. Now it’s like they have always been a part of our school family! We are so proud of the children for all of their hard work and progress this term, thank you for all your support at home.
Little Wandle – Phonics
This week we have consolidated all of the learning we have done this term. I have completed their Autumn 2 phonics assessment with them and these are now recorded in your child's reading record along with next steps. Please ensure you do look at these as to give you an indication of what we will be working on in school with your child. We are sending home 1 sharing book, 2 Little Wandle books and 1 non-decodable book for the Christmas holidays. These MUST be returned on time for Thursday 9th January ready for the next reading group to read. Thank you for your continued support with reading this term. We look forward to growing our brains more in Spring 1 when we begin our Phase 3 journey.
Kinetic Letters
We have now completed the Abracadabra Family and Window Family where we practised 'Q' and 'U'. We have done this to not confuse the children as we never have 'qq' on its own. The letter has a best friend in 'U' so we teach these together. After that, we have revised all of the letters we have learnt so far (which has been a lot!). We only have two more families to learn before we know how to write them all. I have laminated a writing whiteboard and put this in your child's book bag if they would like to practise their writing at home. This is optional. If they do decided to do some writing over the break, please upload it to Tapestry for us to see too!
In Maths, we have been learning about 2D shapes and their properties (how many corners, sides it has). The Numberblocks video 'Flatland' is a great visual for learning the names and the difference between a square and a rectangle which is very important. We have been linking the numbers to the shape. For example, number one can make a circle because it has one curved edge and number three can make a triangle because it has three straight sides and three corners. We have also been using lolly pop sticks to make different 2D shapes. Instead of asking 'what's this shape?' we have been asking the children to make a 'triangle' and for the children to recognise that we need three sides and three corners and so on for the other 2D shapes. We have also been drawing our common shapes. A fun game which you could easily play at home might be I Spy. You may come up with many household objects that are rectangles etc. See how many square objects you can find in your own home. We will be continuing learning about 2D shapes next week.
On Monday, we went on our school trip to see Santa at Cheshire Forest School. The children had the opportunity to go on a reindeer hunt, make some Christmas craft, play in the outdoors, drink hot chocolate and toast marshmallows all while singing some festive Christmas songs.
On Tuesday, we had our Christmas party! Lots of great games, sweets and the chance to dress up in our festive frocks.
On Wednesday, it was Christmas Dinner Day. We enjoyed sharing a delicious, traditional Christmas meal from our amazing school kitchen team…served by the staff! We got to pull a Christmas cracker with our friends and wore our Christmas jumpers too. In the afternoon we have one final opportunity to play with our buddies in 2024!
On Thursday, we continued to make our Christmas cards ready to take home. A big THANK YOU to Mrs Line for her hard work. She is the glue that holds us altogether and we'd be lost without her! #WeLoveMrsLine
On Friday, we had our final celebration assembly of the term. Everyone was definitely tired today so we had fun playing in the classroom with our toys from home. The children shared beautifully.
Show and Tell
We will be holding a very special Christmas Show and Tell for Reception on Monday 6th January. The children are allowed to bring in one toy that they got for Christmas to share with the rest of the class. No electronics or expensive/breakable presents! We recommend games or toys that can be shared with others such as board games. I will send a reminder the day before we come back.
Congratulations to our Star of the Term, Ava!
There was no Mystery Reader today as we finished early for the Christmas holidays!
We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Miss Selwyn and Mrs Line
