Friday, 17 January 2025

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

Friday, 10 January 2025

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

Monday, 6 January 2025

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