Nursery rhyme week
This week, we celebrated Nursery Rhyme Week. In Literacy, we read Each Peach, Pear Plum by Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg. When reading the story, we played ‘I Spy’. The children were encouraged to describe where the characters are using prepositional language, for example, Cinderella is hiding behind the cupboard.
After reading the book, they had to find a nursery rhyme character hiding in the classroom. The children had a go at writing the character’s name or a sentence describing where the character is hiding.
Of course, the chilli challenges were all linked to nursery rhymes…
Building a wall for Humpty Dumpty.
Playing ‘Busy Bus’ with our friends in the maths area.
Baking a cake as fast as we can in the playdough area.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 once we caught a fish alive!
Helping Old Mcdonald on his farm.
The children noticed the dolls were sick, sick, sick. So, they phoned for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick!
Drawing part-whole models using 5 Little Speckled Frogs.
How many frogs are sat on the logs?
How many are swimming in the pond?
Reminders!
– Please return your child’s sound book on Monday 22 November.
– Christmas production clothing needs to be in school by Friday 26 November. Please make sure it’s in a labelled carrier bag.
Home-Link Challenge
Fun, fun, fun!
The Reception and Nursery children have had a fantastic day celebrating Nursery Rhyme Week and Children in Need.
19 November 2021
For this week’s spellings, create word shapes by drawing around them. Try to remember the shapes of each word.
Year 1
• do
• for
• friend
• full
• go
Year 2
• has
• he
• here
• his
• house
• is
• love
• me
• my
• no
19 Nov 2021
This week we would like you to learn these spellings that use the suffixes:
-ful, -ness, -less and -ly. We will be having a test on Thursday 25 November.
thoughtful
meaningless
successful
thankless
careful
aggressively
consciousness
hungrily
loneliness
happily
19 November 2021
Living and Learning is the focus of this week’s Talk Time.
I know how to STOP bullying.
As it’s Anti-Bullying Week, we’ve placed a strong emphasis on what bullying is and how to stop it. In fact, ‘STOP’ is an acronym that provides a clear definition of bullying:
Several Times On Purpose
An example of bullying would be someone saying on multiple occasions that you can’t join in with their game. On the other hand, getting upset/angry in the heat of the moment or accidentally bumping into someone wouldn’t be considered bullying. As part of your discussions, can your child identify examples of what bullying does and doesn’t look like?
Our school ethos statement is that our school is a happy and healthy place to achieve and believe. School will not be a happy and healthy place if we don’t know how to stop bullying.
‘STOP’ not only tells us what bullying is, but also how to make it stop:
Start Telling Other People.
Ask your child what ‘STOP’ means – encourage them to remember both: Several Times On Purpose and Start Telling Other People.
This week’s Remember 2s (R2s) are actions to take if you see, or are the victim of, an unpleasant behaviour:
- Challenge the behaviour with that person. It may well have been accidental or something not intended to be hurtful.
- Tell that person that you don’t like that behaviour and that you want it to stop.
- If the behaviour occurs again, let a trusted adult know so they can explore the situation.
We love Nursery Rhymes!
We’ve been using lots of nursery rhymes to help us with our learning this week. We’ve been selling currant buns in our baker’s shop, jumping in and out of pools like little frogs, printing beautiful twinkling stars and following a recipe to make our own currant bun playdough. The children have really enjoyed learning new rhymes and singing (and acting out) old favourites, too. Today, we experimented with some wibbly-wobbly jelly on a plate and talked about its properties. We also went on a hunt to discover which parts of our school are magnetic and which are not! The children had great fun placing their magnets against a variety of surfaces and materials and they came to the conclusion that wood and plastic are not magnetic but lots of metals are.
Dates for your diary:
Please may we have all star costumes for the Christmas production in Nursery by Friday, 26th November. All items should be clearly named.
Many thanks and have a lovely weekend.
PE
This week, I got the pleasure of teaching PE, and what a fabulous lesson we had. The children were so excited when they saw the big apparatus!
Before the lesson started, we had a discussion about keeping safe when on the apparatus. The children had to remember 3 key safety tips:
- When landing, always bend your knees.
- Do not climb past the blue bibs.
- Only jump-off where there’s a mat.
To finish the lesson and to help us with our upper body strength, we had some fun swinging on the ropes.
We like to move and groove!
Reception love to dance! They always ask, “Can we do the Superheroes and Monster Moves videos?”
Check out our amazing dance moves!
Monster Moves
Superheroes Unite
You could click on the links and join in the fun at home.
Art trip to Leeds Art Gallery
Wow! What a fantastic visit to Leeds Art Gallery. First, we got onto the coach. A lot of the children hadn’t experienced a coach before so they were very excited. We talked about how to keep safe on a coach – especially wearing seatbelts safely.
Leeds Art Gallery
Today, we travelled into Leeds city centre to pay a visit to the art gallery. This visit enriched the children’s current art learning experiences.
Throughout the afternoon, the classes took part in two workshops. They studied pieces of abstract art by looking closely at the shapes, lines, colours, spaces and patterns. Then, the children were asked to recreate the shapes using their bodies.
I loved seeing all the different pictures.
I wonder how the artists got their ideas?
I never used to enjoy art because I can’t draw. Now, I am loving it!
Ask your child about this trip. Can they remember the meaning of abstract art?