27.11.23 - This coming week in Early Years

 Hello everyone!

This week, we have reached the milestone of 50 days in school! It has been a very busy 50 days and we are very proud of all of the children in Pearl and Quartz and how much they have learnt in this short amount of time.

Upcoming Events

As we approach a busy time of year there is an increasing number of events coming up. We thought it might be helpful if we added them to the blog each week. Further information is always in the newsletter.

• Thursday 7th December - Christmas Jumper Day
• Friday 8th December - PTA Movie Night

 On to our learning for next week, we will be:

• Learning some tricky sounds in our Phonics sessions this week.
• Finding 1 more and 1 less than a number in our Mathematics sessions.
• Talking about the start of Advent and our Advent calendar.
• Talking about different Christmas customs from around the world with our interactive Advent calendar.
• Finishing our decorations for our Christmas tree for the Holy Trinity Christmas Tree Festival.
• Decorating our classroom and putting up our Christmas tree in our Home Corner.
• Learning some of the songs for our Nativity.

Drop in this week will be on FRIDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

20.11.23 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

This week we started Phase 3 in our Phonics sessions and learnt our 4th Rainbow Word. The children will have brought the 4 Rainbow Words home with them yesterday. These words are sight words that the children need to learn as they cannot be sounded out. The children have also brought home a coloured band reading book this week. These will be changed on a weekly basis, but not always on the same day. We would therefore be really grateful if reading books and reading diaries could be in the children's bags each day. 

Upcoming Events

As we approach a busy time of year there is an increasing number of events coming up. We thought it might be helpful if we added them to the blog each week. Further information is always in the newsletter.

• Tuesday 21st November - Flu Immunisations.
• Thursday 23rd November - School photographs - individual and sibling photographs will be taken, you do not need to ask for the sibling photo to be taken, this will be done automatically.

On to our learning for next week, we will be:

• Reading the story "Each Peach Pear Plum" and trying to identify all the different nursery rhyme and story book characters.
• Identifying the rhyming words in our story and making a list of rhyming words.
• Thinking about the numbers 4 and 5 in our Mathematics sessions; finding ways to make them, recognising the numerals and finding 1 more or 1 less than them.
• Trying to learn the rhyme in the book, working on our memory skills!
• Learning how to use our lightboxes to help us write our names during our Start-Bee sessions.
• Starting to make the decorations for our Christmas Tree, in readiness for the Christmas Tree Festival at Holy Trinity Church the following week.

This week's drop in will be on TUESDAY.

We hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

13.11.23 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello! 

Apologies for the lateness in posting this blog.

This week we have finished the last of our Phase 2 sounds. The children will be moving on to completing the remainder of the alphabet as part of Phase 3. The Phonics section of the website contains all the sounds so far. The songs that we sing for each letter can be found by clicking here. 

We were very proud of all of the children on Friday when we all sat for the 2 minute silence as part of our work about Remembrance.

Now on to our learning for next week, we will be:

• Reading different versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood" and talking about the different characters.
• Discussing whether Red Riding Hood did the right thing during our Circle Time.
• Starting to learn the sounds in Phase 3 in our Phonics sessions.
• Working with 2D shapes in our Mathematics sessions and going on a shape hunt around our class.
• Using our sounds to write a shopping list for Red Riding Hood.
• Carefully weaving paper strips, remembering the pattern of over, under, over, under, to create a basket effect.

Drop in this week will be on TUESDAY.

Please remember there is an INSET day on Friday, so school will be closed that day to the children. 

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

06.11.23 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone, 

WOW! What a very busy week, including yesterday where the children completed 3 "must-do" jobs!! We have been really impressed with how well they have returned from the half term break.

Just a few things to mention before we talk about the learning for this coming week. 

Dinners

Please remember to pre-book your child's lunch on the new system. We are able to alter it should your child want something different that morning. We can also cancel any order if your child is unwell. It would be great if you could also tell your child what you have ordered for them as there has been a little bit of confusion this week. Any worries, problems, questions etc. please just email or ask one of us at the gate.

Poppies

Next week, the children will have the opportunity to purchase poppies within class. As well as the poppies, there are some other Royal British Legion merchandise (such as key rings, wrist bands and slap bands) which can be purchased. The suggested donation for these items are 50p for a poppy and £1 for other items. If you wish your child to get any of these, then please send them in with their money any day next week.

Now on to our learning for this coming week, we will be:

• Reading different versions of this week's story, "The Three Little Pigs".
• Building houses using different construction materials and then testing them against a big bad wolf!
• Starting our Vocabulary Ninja sessions.
• Learning about 1 more and 1 less in our Mathematics sessions. 
• Making our own Poppies for Remembrance.
• Watching the CBeebies film "Poppies" and observing the silence at 11am on Friday.

This week we will resume our drop in sessions after school. The drop in this week will be on MONDAY.

This week we have only sent home sound cards. We are aware that there has been a few worries regarding the flashcards. These have been sent home for the children to try to blend, maybe 1 or 2 a day, or to try and make with their sound cards. There is no expectation that the children need to learn to read all of these words. By practising 1 or 2 words each day you will be encouraging your child with their blending which will support their reading. Once we have completed all of the Phase 2 sounds we will start to send home our coloured banded books. These will be given to those children who can confidently blend sounds to read words, in the first instance. 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley