Hello everyone!
We have had a very busy first week back, starting with our whole school art day, which the children loved! We have also had the first swimming session of this term and again the children were fabulous. For the rest of the week the children have been learning about caterpillars and butterflies. The children all made their very own caterpillar and sequenced the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". A huge thank you to all of you who have helped your children complete their minibeast ideas sheet, we have loved looking through these and will continue to do so next week. The children have also created artwork this week to show the lifecycle of a butterfly and Mrs O'Connor has used it to create a lovely display.
On to our learning for the coming week, we will be:
- Sharing another book by Eric Carle, this time it is all about a bad-tempered ladybird.
- Retelling the story "The Bad-Tempered Ladybird and thinking about how the ladybird behaved and whether this was the right thing to do, sharing our ideas during Circle Time.
- Watching a film showing the life cycle of a ladybird.
- Labelling the different parts of a ladybird.
- Learning about time, making different o'clock times, just like those in the story.
- Making our very own ladybirds using pebbles.
We will also be continuing our reading sessions next week. The books that have come home today will be collected back in on Friday and swapped for the children's next one.
As we are now in the Summer Term, we will be starting to get the children ready for their move into Key Stage 1. With this is mind, it is time for them to start walking round to Early Years by themselves and saying goodbye to you at the gate. We have already got a number of children who do this and we are very proud of their independence. We would ask that from Monday you start to let your child walk to Early Years by themselves. We realise, that depending on which gate you use, some children have further to walk than others. If you come in via the Brooklyn Drive or Torquay Close gates please start by walking part of the way with your child, allowing them to do the final bit by themselves. It is often the parents that find this the most difficult, your children are used to navigating their way from one end of school to the other on a daily basis and will be fine. We also appreciate that there are times when you might need to talk to us about something, please remember that we do check both our Class Dojo and the email address on a daily basis so messages can always be sent there, shared to the adult on the main school gates or indeed saved for home time.
Drop in sessions are starting back up again and this week it will take place on THURSDAY.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley
