Chinese New Year

This week ....

Chinese New Year Assembly

This week we celebrated Chinese New Year. 

We had a great time dressing up and really enjoyed performing our own dragon dance outside.

This week ....

UOI 

 Finding Out 

  'Through play we express our feelings and ideas and come to new understandings.‘

Lines of Inquiry

*Imaginative use of materials

*Communicating through play.

This week we have enjoyed pretending to be pirates. We made our own pirate ship, messages in a bottle, pirate hats and sang some pirate songs.

Show and Tell

Please continue to bring in objects or pictures for show and tell.

Literacy  

- Pirate stories and songs.

- Letter sounds and reading simple words.

- Communicating with each other.

- Letter formation.

Maths 

- Counting forwards and backwards from 1 to 20.

- Days of the week and months of the year songs.

- 1 more than and 1 less than.

Next Week we will be.....

UOI 

 Finding Out 

     'Through play we express our feelings and ideas and come to new understandings.‘

Lines of Inquiry

*Imaginative use of materials

*Communicating through play.

*Continuing with our pirate theme and following the childrens' interests.

*Planting beans and flowers.

*Making things with clay.

*Making spark videos for our summative assessment.

Maths

- Number formation - 1 to 20.

- Counting to and beyond 20.

- Working out Mathematical problems.

- Recognising numbers 1 to 20.

Literacy 

- Jasper's Beanstalk

- Letter sounds and reading simple words.

- Communicating with each other.

- Letter formation.

Field trip to HarborLand

Thursday 7th February

Meet at 9.45 am outside the HarborLand entrance.

The children will have lunch at 11.20 am.

Return to school at 11.45 am

Children going on the school bus please arrive at school at the normal time.

Parent Cafe on Phonics

Thursday 14th February

3 pm until 4 pm

In the Community Hub

Please come along to our parent cafe. It will give you ideas on how to help your child at home with pre-reading skills and phonics skills so they're ready for reading.

Useful Links to Websites

Songs * When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRDoFkHbxLA

* Jolly Songs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCMvsQho4ZE&t=132s

* Fine Motor Skills Practise - https://picklebums.com/ten-kids-activities-to-practice-fine-motor-control/

* Fun Reading Games -https://readingeggs.com.au/articles/2016/01/25/phonics