Very proud Parents and Teachers

Hello Ladybird parents.

As you will probably agree, the Christmas play performances were fantastic and made everybody proud. The children worked so hard and really are a credit to their families and of course Northgate Infants School.

As well as practising this week we have also had lots of learning opportunities.

Here are a few of our favourite moments from the week:

Jessica, Jayden and Onur decided to open up a
Hairdressers in class this week.

Callum and Jack took baby Jesus to a very
special inn that they had made for him.

Jessica and Gabbi enjoyed sharing the pram and took a
visit to the shops.





Lenny found a frozen leaf in Butterfly's water tray.

Chelsie, Amanda and Riley performed a Christmas concert

using their wonderful new guitars.

 

As you will agree the weather is getting very cold and the children are needing warm coats, hats, scarves and gloves. Many of the children are very good at 'zipping' their coats up, but we still have a lot of children who cannot do their coats up by themselves.
Lets see if the children's New Year's Resolution can be to 'Zip' up their coats by themselves. This can be practised lots at home.

Next week will be a very enjoyable, but very busy week. We have something going on everyday next week.
Monday- Christmas Party
Tuesday- Christmas Fayre
Wednesday- Carol Concert in the church and Christmas dinner
Thursday- Pantomime in the hall
Friday- Ukulele Concert in the hall

Have a lovely weekend

Ladybird Class





 

Winter

Hi Ladybird Parents

This week we have been thinking about 'Winter' and we have had perfect weather to help our understanding of how cold it can be. This has helped us to think of lots of describing words, which we have put up on our Snowman display. Next time you are in the classroom have a look on the back of the door and you will see our wonderful describing words.

With all the cold weather we have been exploring ice, thinking about warm winter clothes and talking lots about melting.
Here are some pictures of us exploring on the field yesterday. We had lots of fun, but made sure we were being very safe and warm.

This week the children decided that they wanted to decorate the classroom, ready for Christmas. The children did all the hard work and did a very good job.

By this afternoon we will have finished Phase 2 of our Phonics work. This week we have been working on 'Phonic Friends'. These are sounds that live together with another sound but make the same sound as the single letter e.g. ff,ll and ss.
The children have now been given their Phase 3 books ready to learn the next group of sounds. The children are getting really good at recognising each Phase 2 sound.

How many sounds can your child find in your house?
Can they write them down correctly?

Next week will be very busy as we will be performing our Christmas Play. Don't forget that the Reception play is on next Thursday 13th December at 2pm and on Friday 14th December at 9:30 am.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
If you haven't brought in your child's costume please can you make sure it is in school ready for Monday 10th December. I must say we do have some talented parents who have really used their imaginations and either made or bought some super costumes. Thank You.

Have a lovely weekend.

Ladybird class

Christmas is coming, Rehearsals have started!

.........another week is over!
The children have worked so hard this week and have learnt all about the play that they will be performing to their Mummy's and Daddy's on the 13th and 14th December.
Look at Gabrielle, Onur and Denni-Mia making the Christmas sleigh with their bodies.

As always we have been very creative and this week the children have been making houses, kites and colourful dream catchers.

Chelsie made a wonderful kite all on her own                                           

 Zak spent a lot of time designing and making a house. Look at all the windows on his house.

 

 

 

 



          Jessica wrapped lots of boxes up to make a very shiny bungalow.

 

 

We have learnt 4 new sounds this week and if you are following the sounds in the little red phonics book we are now up to and including the sound 'ck'.

 

This week we have worked really hard at recognising and ordering numbers and are getting really good at using the + and = signs.

Have a go at using these signs this weekend on numbers up to 10.

 

 

Every child worked with an adult this week and ordered numbers 0-5, 0-10 and 0-20.

 

 

Just a reminder that parents are invited into class on Monday 3rd December for 20 minutes to see how we teach a Phonics session. This will involve learning a new sound and activities that you might want to try at home.

Have a great weekend and we'll see you on Monday.

 

Ladybird Class

 

 



Story Week

Hello Ladybird parents!

 

I am very sorry that there wasn't a blog last week, but I was on a super course at the Archive Centre in Norwich which I can thoroughly recommend!

 

Whilst I was away the children raised a lot of money, dressing up for a non-uniform day!
Look at the amazing Pudsey bear that the children made!

 

As ever we have had a very busy week in Ladybird Class. We have been looking at colour and researched a very talented artist called Mondrian.
Have a look at our wonderful display when you bring your child into school on Monday.

 

The children have had a very exciting week again looking in our 'Sound box'.
The children are now up to 'k' in the red sound books. So if you have any free time at the weekend don't forget to look through the book and ask your child to show the actions to you. The children are also able to blend a few of these sounds together into words such as – as, at, pin, sat, mat, pat, cat, dad, dog and kit.

Look at Victoria's work with the bean bag letters.

 

As ever we have been very creative and have made lots of things to help us with this week's topic.

 

Look at Bethany's wonderful glasses that she made to see different colours through.

 

We have been working hard with our numbers this week and I would like to say a big 'Thank you' to all of the support that you have been giving your child at home, it really is helping with their number work in school!

This week's main focus has been on days of the week so if you have a spare few minutes whilst travelling in the car or when you are cooking tea. Ask your child what the day is today, yesterday and tomorrow!

 

Thank you to all parents who came to the class story-time on Thursday. We really were delighted that you were there and if you would like to read at the next one then please let us know. Thank you again to Jack's mum.

 

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you bright and early on Monday morning.

 

Ladybird class

Fireworks!

Wow!
What a week we have had this week.
We have learnt the sounds S A T P and we are starting to use them around the classroom. Why not ask your child about the sounds and practise the actions with them?

We have done lots of work this week in Numeracy on adding two numbers and can recognise the symbols  +   and    =   . We also have some actions for these signs to show you.

Our main focus this week has been on Fireworks and we have drawn, made, danced and coloured lots of fireworks.

 Look at our wonderful firework dance.
We watched the fireworks in our PE lesson and
became rockets, Catherine wheels and Sparklers.

Ashton and Ellise are helping each other to make

  sparklers out of straws and paper.





Zak, Callum and Jack had a lovely time making
motorbikes out of our outside toys.
                                      




See you next week.
Ladybird Class

Welcome

Welcome to our lovely new 'blog page'.
The children and staff in Ladybird class are very excited about using this page to show you what we have been up to.
Check out our page every Friday to see how busy we have been.
See you on Friday.

Miss Brind