Weekly Ending 20/09/24
Date: 17th Sep 2024 @ 12:43pm
Happy Friday! And just like that we have come to an end of another week and the end of our first book, ‘We’re Going to Find a Monster’. We have had a wonderful adventure with Charlie and Eddie and experienced going over the shimmering ocean, up the huge, high moutains, through the deep, dark jungle, past the bubbly bubble lake until we found the monster's lair. We've had great fun pretending to put on our grumpy monster voices and joining in with the story with key phrases. This led us to retell the story using pictures in a story map. A story map is a great way of recalling the main points of the story in sequential order. When reading to your child at night, get them to retell the story using their own words to see if they have understood what has been read to them. This is fantastic for supporting our language skills, especially using the correct tense. E.g. Charlie and Eddie go-ed over the ocean. Always give a choice between two options. For instance, 'Charlie and Eddie go-ed or Charlie and Eddie went?' Your child will then hopefully pick the correct verb and model saying the whole sentence back to them for them to try.
Dates for the diary
- Monday 7th October 9:30am - KS1 and EYFS Harvest Festival in the school hall. Please wait outside the community entrance door (where you drop off in the morning) where a member of staff will let you in. Due to the size of the space and the number of classes, we are limiting the number of adults to 2 for each child/family.
- Saturday 12th October 10am-2pm - 175th Anniversary. Please come to help celebrate our birthday! More details have been sent via email.
- Tuesday 15th October - Individual and sibling photos. Please come to school in smart uniform including your child's red jumper/cardigan. More details will be sent nearer the time.
- Wednesday 16th October - Flu jabs. Please check your emails to give permission for your child to have the flu jab.
- Week beginning 21st October - Parents Evening (face-to-face appointment). Booking system will be sent out closer to the time.
A polite reminder
Please could I remind you to download School Spider if you have not done so already. This is our main form of communication at school and we email directly through this account. If you would like to get in contact, please go through admin@tarporleyce.cheshire.such.uk. Emails are checked everyday and we try to get back to you as soon as we can. Thank you.
Tapestry
Tapestry is your online learning journey of your child's time in Reception. We get to share WOW moments with you and is our main form of sharing your child's progress with you from week to week. We love seeing what the children get up to outside of school so please keep sharing! At the end of the year you will get to download your child's learning journal with both our and your observations.
Little Wandle (Phonics)
This week we learnt four new sound I, N, M, and D using the new Little Wandle grapheme cards and phrases. Please continue to practise recognising these sounds wherever possible. E.g. on signs, in menus, bedtime stories so your child is seeing them in new contexts. This week we have been beginning to put some of these sounds together to form CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and blending to read them. Each lesson we have revisited initial sounds, rhyming couplets, listening skills and the most important, oral blending and segmenting. I have uploaded the oral blending tutorial again as a refresher to now apply our first eight sounds. Please continue to encourage your child to orally blend simple CVC words such as hat, pin, mud etc. We want to ensure every child becomes confident enough to independently blend as soon as possible. That way, we can focus on the sounds that we learn each day and confidently blend and segment words containing those sounds. Practice makes permanent! This week we have also been consolidating recognising the graphemes S, A, T, P. Please see attached the Little Wandle Home Learning sheet if you would like practise at home.
It's really important at this time that the children try not to get into bad habits when learning these sounds. We try to avoid something called a 'schwar' such as sounding out the word cat as cuh-a-tuh. Otherwise this ends up blending to be 'catter'. Please ensure your child is using the pure sound to support correct blending.
READING BOOKS!
Next week your child will be coming home with their first reading book (wordless) so that we can establish reading routines in preparation for phase 2 books later in the half term. Your child will have read this book three times in the week with an adult in their reading practice sessions. All books are to be returned by the following THURSDAY. Any damaged or lost books will result in a £5 fine.
In Maths, we have been learning about measurement, in particular height. We have been using mathematical vocabulary to compare the heights of different objects finding things that a taller and shorter. We have applied this language to activities like building towers and saying 'Tower A is taller than tower B' for example. Then we moved on to ordering the heights of different objects in the classroom and consolidated using the terminology (taller/shorter than/tallest/shortest).I have uploaded an activity below should you wish to continue this learning at home.
On Monday, we found the monster was hiding in the scariest, smelliest and messiest place in the whole wide world (the brothers’ bedroom!). We then found clues to match to the descriptions and practised our segmenting and initial sounds.
On Tuesday, we read the Colour Monster story and focused on the different emotions in the story. We found out that most of us are the yellow (happy), green (calm) or pink (loving) monster. We then held our own Relaxation Day and created a list of things we could do to relax our brains.
On Wednesday, we got out and about in our first balance bike session where we learnt about bike safety and how to stop and start. In the afternoon we had a story with Jack the Dog where we learnt about being truthful and saying sorry.
On Thursday, we finished our story and created a story map to retell as a class. This led us to creating our own story maps of ‘We’re Going to Find a Monster’ by mark making our ideas.
On Friday, we learnt about Harvest and how we celebrate this time of year. We thought about being thankful to the farmers who work hard to grow the crops and learnt our Harvest song. We can’t wait to show you.
Congratulations to our Star of the Week, Hari!
Our Mystery Reader was Holly's Dad! Thank you for coming to share your story with us!
Please speak me if you would like to be Mystery Reader and we can put you in the diary. Remember you can have other family members come and read a story too. These are the remaining dates for this term…
Friday 11th October 3pm
Friday 22nd November 3pm
Friday 29th November 3pm
Friday 6th December 3pm
Friday 20th December 3pm
Thank you for all your support. Have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Selwyn
