29.01.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

This week we have enjoyed the book "Dinosaur Roar". The children listened carefully to try and find all of the rhyming words. They also did some fabulous writing about some of the dinosaurs from the book.

This week we have a message from Miss Harvey:

Buy books, change lives

Want to support our school?

Buy books through LoveReading and LoveReading4Kids and we get  25% of the cover price to buy more books!
 
The LoveReading family — LoveReading, LoveReading4Kids and LoveReading4Schools — exists because reading matters, and books change lives. We know that reading for pleasure, and improving reading standards, has a huge impact on our children’s well-being, academic achievements, and future success. Alongside that, we also know that the current funding crisis has resulted in devastating cuts to budgets in our schools, which is why LoveReading is redressing
that shortfall through creating an online bookstore with social purpose.
  
How it works:
● When you buy any book from LoveReading or LoveReading4Kids, 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice, such as us!
● Book prices are competitive with at least 10% off the RRP
● After you’ve searched for the books you’d like to buy (after reading reviews and accessing opening extracts of highly recommended titles), at checkout, you’ll be able to search for your school, by adding your school name or postcode, and you allocate that money to us. It will even tell you how much your purchase has donated to us!
● We can then spend our allocated funds on LoveReading4Kids to get more books in our classrooms and library.
 
LoveReading has a huge selection of books for all ages, across all genres, at competitive prices, so make LoveReading and LoveReading4Kids your go-to bookshops to give our school the chance to access more books.
 
Sounds like a win-win situation - you get great books, while we get funds for great books to encourage even more reading for pleasure in our children. Like we said at the start, reading matters and books change lives - buying books through LoveReading will ensure that continues to happen for students at our school, and future generations.
Thank you for your ongoing support!
www.lovereading.co.uk
www.lovereading4kids.co.uk

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

• Sharing the book "Dinosaur More!". This is a non-fiction version of last week's book "Dinosaur Roar!".
• Learning what non-fiction means and using our book to find out information about the different dinosaurs.
• Labelling the different parts of a dinosaur, using our segmenting skills to help us spell the words.
• Matching the correct number of objects to a given number in our Mathematics sessions.
• Learning about pumice stone and creating our very own volcano.
• Continuing to think about the pulse (beat) in different pieces of music.

Drop in this week will be on TUESDAY.

We hope you have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

22.01.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello!

We have enjoyed making lots of robots this week and hope you have seen them in the newsletter today. We hope you like how the newsletter has been improved further this week, with the addition of the class pages. These will continue each week, so we will be sharing different aspects of the children's learning as we move through this half term. 

On to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

          

• Sharing the story "Dinosaur Roar!", this is another rhyming book so we will be trying to find all of the rhyming words. 
• Writing a caption to go along with one of the pictures from "Dinosaur Roar!", using describing words to match the picture. 
• Moving on to the phase "Mass and Capacity" in our Mathematics sessions, thinking about how much things weigh or how much they hold.
• Creating some dinosaur masks, carefully cutting out the shape of the head and the all important eye holes!
• Continuing to think and talk about our zones of regulation, considering how we are feeling during Circle Time sessions.

Drop in this week will be on THURSDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

15.01.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello Everybody!

Thank you so much to all of you who worked with your child to discuss their ideas for our latest project, We have been enjoying reading their different ideas and finding out what they want to know about dinosaurs. Please don't worry if you've not had the chance to do this with your child, we are more than happy for them to come in next week. If you have mislaid your sheet please ask and we can pop another one in your child's bag. It has also been lovely to share the pictures and photos about dinosaurs from home too - we are always happy to look at anything project related in school.

Now onto our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Sharing the book Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus! 
• Listening out for and writing a list of all the rhyming words in this week's text and learning how to play some rhyming games.
• Recapping our latest digraphs in our Phonics sessions, working hard to spot them during our reading and writing.
• Continuing with our work in the phase "Alive in 5!" in our Mathematics sessions. This week we will be continuing our work on 1 more and 1 less.
• Creating some robots, using junk modelling materials, just like Harry did in our story last week.

It has been lovely to start the term with some WOWs, please don't forget to ask if you need a new sheet.

Drop ins will start again this week and will be on MONDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

08.01.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Happy New Year everybody! 

We are looking forward to welcoming the children back tomorrow, for our next learning adventure! This half term will see the 100th day for the children in school too, which will be very exciting! 

On to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Sharing Harry and the Dinosaurs stories. We will be reading several of these, including "Harry and the Dinosaurs go to School" and "Harry and the Robots".
• Discussing the story "Harry and the Robots" and thinking about the ways we take care of each other.
• Learning 4 new vowel digraphs in our Phonics sessions as we continue to work on the  Phase 3 sounds.
• Labelling different parts of one of Harry's robots, using our sounds to help spell the words we need to write.
• Comparing different quantities in our Mathematics sessions, saying which has more and which has fewer. We will also be finding 1 more or 1 less than a given number as our mission for this week. 

See you in the morning!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley