10.03.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello!

The children looked amazing yesterday, in their World Book day costumes and the weather meant that the whole school was able to spend time reading on the field together. What a difference a little bit of sun can bring! 

We have also enjoyed making lots of robots this week, these are on display in the corridor, so you can always see them during a drop in session.

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. 
• Continuing with our "Building 9 and 10" block in Mathematics, working on finding 1 more and 1 less than different numbers.
• Learning our 15th Rainbow word in our Phonics sessions.
• Learning the definitions of 5 more words in our Vocabulary Ninja sessions.
• Learning a new Circle Time game, talking about what makes Trevor Triceratops happy, sad or cross.

Drop in this week will be on MONDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

03.03.25 - 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 or alternatively they are on our pages on the website. (A link was in last week's blog).

Next week is a busy week in school as the children will have their height and weight checks on Tuesday and it is World Book Day on Thursday. For World Book Day, the children can come dressed as their favourite character, or bring in a prop from their favourite book or just bring in their favourite book. 

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.
• Learning how to write in our new Maths books, by using one square for each number.
• Continuing to learn about consecutive consonants in our Phonics sessions, blending and segmenting words with 4 sounds. 
• Moving onto the phase "Building 9 and 10" in our Mathematics sessions. This week we will be working on our careful counting.
• 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 FRIDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

24.02.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello!

We hope you have all had a fabulous half term! We are looking forward to welcoming the children back tomorrow, for our next learning adventure! We are also looking forward to finding out their ideas for our new project "Dinosaurs". If you are unable to find the letters that came home before half term, then copies of them can be found here on the Early Years section of the website. 

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.
• Labelling different parts of one of Harry's robots, using our sounds to help spell the words we need to write.
• Thinking about the days of the week and ordering and sequencing periods of time in our Mathematics sessions.
• Learning the definitions of 5 more words in our Vocabulary Ninja sessions.
• Starting our next JIGSAW puzzle piece for PSHE - "Healthy Me".

Our drop in session this week will be on THURSDAY.

See you in the morning!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

10.02.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

What a very busy time week in school! We have been exceptionally proud of how well all of our children have represented our school during this time. They are truly amazing! This is why both Buttercup and Snowdrop classes are ALL pupils of the week!

This coming Friday is going to be a very exciting day as it will mark 100 days since we started school! Mrs Wood has said we can have a little party to celebrate - we are even getting a special cake! As it also our Wellbeing day, the children do not need to wear uniform, they can come in party clothes or comfy clothes (which ever they prefer). We just ask that they are able to do PE in whatever they are wearing.

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

• Sharing the story "Stuck", this is a very silly story about a little boy called Floyd and how his kite got stuck in a tree.
• Comparing objects by their length and height in our Mathematics sessions.
• Sharing the book "How Long is a Whale?" and using it to help us compare different sea animals by their length.
• Comparing how tall we are compared with an Emperor Penguin.
• Writing some facts about polar animals
• Updating the name displays in our classrooms and thinking about how much they have improved. 
• Celebrating 100 days in school on Friday!

Drop in this week will be on TUESDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

03.02.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone,

Thank you for all the fantastic matchboxes this week - we have loved seeing how many little things you and your children have managed to cram inside! We will announce the winner next week, so there is still this weekend if you want to have a go.

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

• Sharing the story "The Way Back Home", a fourth story about the Boy.
• Using a contents page and non-fiction books to find out information about penguins.
• Using our new found knowledge to help us write some of our own penguin facts.
• Finding out about odd and even numbers and sorting our Numicon tiles in our Mathematics sessions. 
• Adding groups of objects together to find the total amount.
• Setting up our own obstacle courses in our Learning Garden, making sure we take turns and share the equipment.

Drop in this week will be on FRIDAY.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

27.01.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

This week the PTA "Coin Battles" have begun! Thank you to everyone who has sent in money for the jars. There are still 2 weeks to go, so plenty of time for some sabotage of the other classes!

The children have all come home with an empty matchbox today. As part of our Mathematics work this week, we have been thinking about how much different containers can hold. We have challenged the children to see how many different items they can fit into their matchbox. Please can they be returned next week so we can find out who is the winner! (The adults will be joining in too and if it is anything like previous years it is likely to become quite competitive!)

This coming Wednesday sees the start of Chinese New Year, so this will be the main focus for our learning, we will be:

• Learning about Chinese New Year. This year it is the year of the Snake.
• Sharing the story "The Great Race" to find out all about the Chinese Zodiac and how each year is named after an animal.
• Finding out about how Chinese New Year is celebrated and also watching some Dragon dancing.
• Thinking about the numbers 6, 7, 8 in our Mathematics sessions.
• Creating some dragons and snakes as part of our Chinese New Year work.

This week, Mrs Wood has reminded the children that they should be having water in their bottles as there is an increasing number bringing in squash/juice. As a Healthy School, the children SHOULD have water only.

This week's drop in will be on FRIDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

20.01.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone, 

The children enjoyed creating their own boats this week and then testing them to see how successful they would be in water! We have also created a fabulous display about the book "Lost and Found", which features some very cute penguins! You will be able to see this at our next drop in. 

This coming week we will be:

• Sharing and discussing the story "How To Catch A Star". This was Oliver Jeffers' first book and also the first story about the Boy.
• Adding labels to one of the illustrations from the book.
• Starting Phase 4 in our Phonics sessions.
• Learning about capacity in our Mathematics sessions, comparing different containers. 
• Painting our own moose, thinking about the way Oliver Jeffers drew them in his book "This Moose Belongs To Me".

Drop in this week will be on THURSDAY.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

13.01.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone, 

Many thanks for all of the children's sheets about our new project, we made a great start on it this week and are looking forward to continuing to learn more about the Boy and the Penguin next week. We would love to see any of the sheets that have not come in yet, as it is lovely to include the children's ideas, so please can any outstanding ones come in next week.

This coming week we will be:

• Sharing and discussing the story "Up and Down", which is another story about the Boy and the Penguin.
• Writing some descriptions of the Boy and the Penguin.
• Continuing our work on friendships in our Circle Time sessions, thinking about what we enjoy doing with our friends. 
• Looking at globes and maps of the world to find the South Pole and comparing it to Rayleigh.
• Finding 1 more or 1 less in our Mathematics sessions.
• Starting our "Lost and Found" display for the school corridor by creating some penguins.

Our drop in sessions will restart again this week and the first one will be on TUESDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

06.01.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone, 

We hope you have all had a lovely Christmas break. We look forward to hearing all the children's news tomorrow.

This week we will starting our new project "Lost and Found" and will be:

• Watching and listening to the story "Lost and Found".
• Learning about the author Oliver Jeffers who wrote and illustrated the story "Lost and Found".
• Sequencing events from the story, using pictures from the film and then creating our own song to tell the story of the Boy and the Penguin.
• Continuing with our Anima Phonics sessions and starting our reading sessions again.
• Making our own repeating pattern umbrellas like the one belonging to the penguin.

See you all in the morning!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley