Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween

The children al had a fantastic day celebrating Halloween with their friends in school. They all really enjoyed our dance and spooky parade! It is so intimidating for the little ones to go out there in front of all those people and I'm super proud of how well they all did!

I have used this weeks blog to post some photos of them all, (we will be back to normal service next week).

I didn't manage to get any photographs of the actual dance or parade so if any the mummies and daddies have anything I would love you to share.

 

One or two of our little ones were a bit afraid of the costumes but had a great time once the parade was over when we had lots of fun activities to do in class.

 

 

 

Next week we will be starting our new topic of Colour. We will be doing so many activities enabling us to recognise and name colours in our environment. You can help your child by reinforcing this at home, pointing out objects in your home or while outside and asking the colours and repeating the colour names in English. We will be using one of our favourite stories to help. Brown Bear Brown Bear by Eric Carle, helping the children to join in with repeated refrains and anticipating key events and phrases. This can also be found on Yutube.

We also use lots of songs about colour for example on Youtube:  Dream English Kids, Super Simple and Kids TV123.

Of course each week we continue with our maths activities and literacy which we do on a daily basis. The children have been doing so well recognising sounds in the environment and also letter sounds. We are continuing with activities to recognise and name numbers 1-5 but some of our more confident children are already recognising numbers to 20. For this reason we adapt all our lessons to include more challenging outcomes to ensure we enable all of our children to fly at their own pace.

 

I hope you have all had a happy and relaxing holiday and we look forward to seeing everyone back on Monday.

Miss Jackie





 



Five Senses continued.

Taste and Smell

This term's topic of Five Senses has come to an end. The children have had a fantastic time exploring using all of their five senses and learning lot's of new language!

Each of the children are now repeating words in English and are able to follow simple commands throughout the day. We have been encouraging appropriate behaviour in class and following class routines, how quickly they adapt. We must remember just how young they are and what and amazing achievement it is for them to already be understanding so much in English. I am constantly amazed by them!

We finished off the topic with the sense of Taste, we tried lots of new food and could each say, ¨I like it¨ or ¨I don't like it¨ and  I'm sure a few of them will be repeating this at home.

I like it

 I like it

 I like it

 I don't like it!

 Then we did our activities on the sense of Smell, We had lots of different containers with 'smelly' things inside. We tried this as a group and named the ingredients then repeated on an individual basis.

                                                                   Mmm, smells nice

 I like it

 Let's have a look

Each week we also have activities on Maths and Literacy which continue throughout the year.

This week we have been doing math's activities on the computer and the children are doing really well.
You can help your child by allowing them to use your computer at home, encouraging the use of the mouse and also in counting and recognising their numbers. One of our favourite sites is: topmarks.co.uk  they have several maths games for 3-5 years. Our favourite at the moment is counting the buttons on the gingerbread man. The children are now learning to recognise and count numbers up to 5. With some of them going to 10 and beyond.In literacy we have been doing lots of listening to and identifying sounds, including the initial sounds of their names.

 We made some yucky, slimy gloop...and the children loved it!

Important Reminders:

Next week we will be doing lots of activities based around Halloween. We will finish this off with our Halloween parade on Friday morning. Please being your child to school with their costume on and a change of clothes in case they should want to change afterwards. This does not have to be school uniform on this day. We will be having an Early Years round of activities where the children will be mixing with the other classes (up to Year 2) it promises to be lot's of fun!

On Monday 23rd of October, we will be changing class rooms with Reception Class. This will happen at the end of the day once the children have gone home. We will be following our usual routines and the children will still be dropped off and collected in the usual place. (Nursery Patio) We will the have our morning routines and siesta in the new class, opposite our current class but all other activities and patio will remain in our second creative class as normal.

If you have any questions about this please feel free to discuss them with me and I hope I can answer them sufficiently or failing that Miss Eccleston or Mr Bailey will be able to help.

When sending in water bottles for the children please ensure you have their name clearly marked to avoid confusion, Thank you.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you again on Monday,

Miss Jackie



Five Senses Continued. Diwali

Five Senses Continued and Diwali

This week we continued with our Five senses. We used our power of Sight to explore our garden area and found lots of interesting things, using the magnifying glasses.

 

 

We also began working on prepositions, on top, under, behind etc

The whole school celebrated Diwali....and Nursery had to get in on the act too!

We decorated our clay Diyas for the display and tried out lots of new foods.

 

 

One of our parents very kindly donated traditional costumes to our class and the children loved trying them on and dancing to Diwali dances.

 

Next week we will be doing activities around the sense of smell and taste.

We have been doing lots of listening activities in preparation for learning to recognise the letter sounds. The children have all been doing so well and can recognise so many surprising sounds. This also leads to lots of new language as they learn the names of objects, animals etc in English.

We will be doing Fred Talk games during carpet time, Singing Phonics and instrumental listening games both inside and outside the classroom.

 

You can help your child by sounding out the letters of familiar objects, e.g. d-o-g, c-a-t and also the letters of their names.

 

Important reminders: All of our Tapestry accounts should now be activated. If you continue to have problems with this please let me know so that I can get the access codes re-sent to you. Remember these may be in your spam folder and are only usable for 24 hours. Once you have activated your account you can  enter your child's profile at any time. I will be updating the profiles on a regular basis, showing you photographs and learning outcomes for your child. Once you  have the access codes you can share with family members but please remind them that these profiles, and in particular photos should not be used in any social media sites or for any other use other than intended.

 

I hope you all have a lovely long weekend,

Miss Jackie