Hello Ladybird parents.
This week, as ever we have had a very busy week.
We have been talking about Growing and have had a visit from 2 babies! 1 was from a 4 month old baby called James and his Mummy Kerry. The other was from a 9 month old called Ted and his Daddy Andy.
We have been thinking about how we have grown from a baby to 4, 5 and 6 year olds and what we can do now that we couldn't do when we were little. It has been lots of fun talking about baby bottles and milk, nappy changing and baby food, along with how old we were when we first started to crawl, walk and talk.
We have thought about what we look like now and have drawn portraits of ourselves, both in pencil and charcoal. We have also brought in a baby picture of ourselves and tried to guess which baby picture belonged to which of us in Ladybird's class. Some of them were so easy and many of us haven't changed a bit, but some of us have changed lots so it was harder to guess who is who.
Thank you all parents who have been to a parent's evening over the last week. Don't worry if you missed out! Miss Brind is still making appointments if you would like to come and discuss your child's progress with her.
In Numeracy this week we have been doing lots of measuring. We have measured the smaller things in the class using cubes and also measured the class using our footsteps. See if you can measure your lounge/bedroom or even your bathroom by placing one foot in front of the other and measuring how many footsteps wide or long your room is.
We have used lots of words to help us in our Numeracy this week including: long, short, wide, tall, small and narrow.
In Reception phonics this week we have been looking at some of the Phase 3 phonemes, along with Phase 2 and 3 tricky words along with writing them. We have also looked at sentences and using different words to replace the words in our sentences.
In Year 1 Phonics this week we have been looking at some of our Phase 3 sounds but using different spellings to spell the words. For example we have found out that there are 4 different ways of using 'I' in a word and one also that we haven't looked at. These include I, igh, ie and y, just leaving i-e as a split digraph that we will be looking at in a few weeks time.
In PE this week we have been looking at the story of Chicken Licken. This has helped us to create a basic dance that we can use when making the story. Next week your child will be bringing home a sticker chart and poster that you can use with your child to retell the story. Look out for this in your child's book bag next week- it will be great fun to use.
This week has also seen the start of our mud kitchen. This is an outside kitchen that we can use to help us with our role play. We can cook, stir and mix the mud to follow recipes and add stones and sticks to our creations. Everybody in Ladybird class has been shown how to use the kitchen sensibly. We have added water to the mud to help us to make mud soups, but it does get a bit messy sometimes. We have been taught to roll up our sleeves and wash our hands after using the mud, but sometimes mud gets on our jumpers. We hope that you will support us in this fun way of learning as it helps the children to learn lots of new skills including:
imagination, improvisation, team work, good social skills and lots of opportunities to talk to both adults and our friends.
Here are a few pictures of what we have been doing this week:
Eysan has been making tricky words out of the construction toys in the classroom
Here is a picture of baby James with his mummy Kerry.
Charlie had good fun dressing up in all sorts of different
outfits this week.
Look at this creation.
Here is a picture of Ted. He showed us that he could hold
his bottle all on his own.
Ted is also learning to walk with a walker.
Ted was so quick he nearly ran over our toes.
We hope that you have a wonderful weekend and look forward to carrying on with the next part of our growing topic next week.
