16.11.20 - This coming week in Early Years

I have updated the Phonics page on our class page on the school website. It now also contains the sounds that the children have learnt this week. (Set 2) The children are also bringing home their sound folder, this is to stay at home. I have also filmed a clip to show ways in which this can be used at home. The clip about the sound folder is at the bottom of the Phonics page.

Please click on this link to find the clips: Phonics page.

You may have seen in last week's newsletter and again this week that the school have purchased the Big Cat ebook Library. We are currently in the process of setting up the children's accounts and they should be bringing home their login details next Friday. I will create a link to the Parent Guide in next week's blog.

This week we will be focusing on the traditional tale "Little Red Riding Hood". We will be:

• Reading different versions of the story and talking about the different characters.
• Discussing whether Red Riding Hood did the right thing during our Circle Time.
• Learning the next 4 sounds in our Phonics sessions and working on blending and segmenting simple VC words. (Words like as, am, in, it, is, at).
• Copying, continuing and creating our own patterns in our Mathematics sessions.
• Carefully weaving paper strips, remembering the pattern of over, under, over, under, to create a basket effect.

Home Learning Ideas:

This week perhaps you might like to try one of these ideas.

1. Go for a walk in the woods and draw a picture of any animals, plants or trees you see. I'm lucky and live very close to some woods where there are foxes, badgers and squirrels, I wonder if you will see any of those?
2. Have a competition at home to see who can put on and do up their coats the fastest. Little Red Riding Hood always did her coat up to keep her warm and now that the days are getting colder it would be great if all the children could do this for themselves.
3. Share the story at home, a version of it can be found here.

We now have a display board to share all of the children's learning from home. It would be lovely to get a few more things on it. Many thanks to Grace and Bella and their families for sending in their Little Pig work from last week.

Finally, please remember that you can always contact me for WOWs, work at home, queries or worries by using earlyyears@downhallprimary.com

Have a lovely weekend, see you on Monday!

Miss Wakefield