This week...

I know it's only October and we don't want to mention the C word but in school we are working on designs for a Christmas card. The children have done finger print Christmas baubles and they are looking very pretty so we hope that you like them! We will send your child's design to be turned into a card.  There will be an email to follow with more information about how to view and order etc.

On Monday  we did our information session about phonics/curriculum for parents - we are currently writing up some information to send out to the parents who could not make it. 

This week in phonics we are doing n, ck, e, h and r. Here is a video of how to say all the individual sounds here.  Some parents have said how useful the Jolly Phonics app is - there is more information about it if you click here.

  Please keep playing games with the children where they can practise recognising the sounds s,a,t,i,p,n,ck,e,h and r.  We have put copies of the first Word Box Words in book bags.  The children can practise segmenting and blending the words.  We will give the children a new set each week.  These words can either be kept in a strip or cut up so that you can make up games for the children to play e.g. place one word next to each number 1 -6, roll a dice and get the children the word next to the corresponding number.

1	it
2	as
3	tin
4	pan
5	nip
6	Pat

In project we have been discussing people who help us at home and also what the children do to help at home, we have talked about family members and belonging to a family and we have also talked about friendships and what makes a good friend. We have had a story that goes alongside each lesson - Superhero Dad, Just Like My Mum and Lost and Found.

    

The children started RE where we discussed special people and role models.

Over the past few weeks we have started Marvellous Me in class too where a child is chosen each week to be Marvellous Me and they get to sit in a special chair and be the first in the line! They share with the class all the things that makes them marvellous and we put their words into a star which they will bring home. 

The daily stories in Jade Class have been Percy the Park keeper books We have also continued to play both inside and outside and do dough disco and squiggle.

Have a good week!