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