Nursery!!!

Just a quick welcome message to all our new nursery parents! On here you will find up to date information about everything that is happening in our foundation stage, both Reception and Nursery. You are also welcome to leave us a comment. We hope you are all having a fab half term and look forward to seeing you all next week!

Watch this space.........

The Foundation Team :0)

Reading Week

This week is reading week! We have got lots of great activities planned based around the story of 'The Gingerbread Man'.

• We will be having a visit from the Library and will be talking about what a library is, providing opportunities for the children to talk about their visits to the library.
• children from Key Stage 2 will be reading with our children which will provide a great opportunity for the children to share their favourite books.
• a theatre company will be performing the story of 'The Gingerbread Man' and we will be talking about the features of the story, such as the characters and the setting. The children will be able to sequence the story.
• A story teller will be coming in to school.
• In maths we will be continuing our learning on adding one more through the story of 'The Gingerbread Man'. We will also explore weighing and measuring when we make salt-dough Gingerbread Men. We will also play 'Where is the Gingerbread Man?' focusing on positional and directional language, such as under, over, behind, next to, etc.
• On Friday we will all be dressed up as characters from the story. We can't wait to see everyone's costumes! The adults will role-play the story in the morning, followed by the children acting out the story in the afternoon.

We are really excited about reading week. Here are some things you can to at home:

• Read the story of 'The Gingerbread Man'.
• Read other traditional tales.
• Go to the library with your child.
• Talk about stories - characters, settings, sequence of story, what happens next, etc.

Enjoy

Reception

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the lack of posts over the last couple of weeks. I had some technical issues which I am hoping have now been resolved.

Phonics

We are whizzing through the set 1 letters which is fantastic. Here are a couple of suggestions for how to help at home:

• after saying each letter sound in a word, always blend the sounds together immediately to read the word, e.g. c-a-t, cat or m-a-n, man.
• get your child to point to each letter as they say the sound, then run their finger underneath the word when they blend. They practice doing this in Word Time every day. Please do lots of modelling of this.
• please focus lots on comprehension - who is the main character? where does the story take place? what happens at the beginning/middle/end of the story?

Your support with reading is invaluable and we really appreciate it :-)

Maths

Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning about shape and measure. We have particularly been focusing on the language we can use to describe shape and measure.

Here are some examples:

Shape

straight, curved, bent, side, edge, corner, zig zag, tucked in, curled

Measure

small, tall, fat, thin, short, shorter, shortest, long, longer, longest, medium

This coming week we will be revisiting counting skills - counting accurately with one to one correspondence - and we will be investigation number problems - exploring how we can share out objects equally by adding one more to each group.

We have also been learning about Harvest and where our food comes from. When you are at the shops, talk with your children about where different food types come from. We have learnt lots of Harvest songs which we are looking forward to sharing with you on Wednesday.

Hope to see you all there!