[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fcfa99″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents

Thank you to the following parents for coming to our first coffee morning last week: Rachel, Trina, Rahima, Stella, Fatima and Dinora.

We expect to receive your responses from the letter they sent to you on Friday and hopefully more of you will be interested in helping out and joining our Reception Parent Group.

Our first project is Fun Friday on the 17th November 2017. So please start sending in your donations of sweet and savoury baked treats to sell at our first Fun Friday event.

When donating food items to sell, please remember:

• Due to allergies and dietary requirements, any food you send in must not contain any nuts/nut products or pork

• If baked treats contain meat products eg samosas, please send with a label attached to say which type of meat it contains.

Thank you very much for your support.

Miss Pillay [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#2d14de” ]This week’s learning

AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Light and Dark

LITERACY: Book Focus: Whatever Next? by Jill Murphy

The children have enjoyed acting out this story taking on the role of Baby Bear who goes on an adventure to the moon. This week, the children will recall and sequence the main events to retell the story.

Phonics:

This week’s sound focus: /c/, /k/, /ck/, /e/, /u/ and /r/

This week the children will learn their first digraph (2 letters which combine to represent one sound /ck/). So by Tuesday your child will learn 3 ways of representing the /k/ sound as c. k or ck. You may find that they will initially use any of these 3 letter forms to represent the /k/ sound.

Please keep the daily practice sheet at home and practise saying and writing the sounds until your child can confidently recognise and write each of them.

MATHS:

This week we will revise all numbers within the range 0-20. We will review strategies for counting reliably using concrete objects and pictorials. The children will also revise number formation of the numerals within this range. The children will learn to represent quantities of each number to 20 using tens frames

 TOPIC – Knowledge and Understanding of the World:

The children are really enjoying our Space station role play area, dressing up as astronauts and planning space exploration trips to the moon. This week they will learn more about our solar system and develop their keen interest in the different planets.

PSED – Personal, Social, Emotional Development: 

This week is Anti-Bullying Week. This year’s theme is: ‘All Different, All Equal’

In Reception, we will have a year group assembly and talk about what makes a person unique, discussing the concept of differences and how we can be respectful and tolerant of each other’s differences [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#30f5f4″ ]HOMEWORK:

Well done to all the children in Chelsea Class. We have now had 100% return of homework and every child in Chelsea now has their homework certificate for Autumn 1.

Please return homework by Wednesday

Remembrance Day: Who would you like to thank on Remembrance Day? Find or draw a picture about some of the different people who help us in our communities. Ask your adult to help you write a sentence about how they help us (eg. police/firefighters/nurses/doctors/paramedics, etc)

Books for home reading: By the end of this week your child will be issued with 2 books (a reading scheme book and a class library book). Please check your child’s yellow diary for a note about how to support your child with each of these books. Also, it will explain which day to return their books so it can be exchanged for a new book. [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#df5050″ ]IMPORTANT DATES

Wednesday 15th November: Writing Workshop

Friday 17th November – Fun Friday (bake sale by Reception parents in KS2 playground)

12th December: Reception Christmas Performance

15th December: Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#3ae02b” ]Here are a few educational videos your children have been enjoying this week:

Counting to 20

The Solar system

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Dear Parents

Do you have any time to spare? Would you be interested in helping us to improve our Early Years outdoor area? Do you have any carpentry, DIY or fundraising skills? (These are not essential but would be an added bonus). If you are interested, please come to a short coffee morning on Wednesday 8th November at 9.00am to find out how you could be of assistance. Please let us know if you will be able to attend.

Kind regards

Miss Pillay[/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#eb2020″ ]This week’s learning

AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Light and Dark

LITERACY:

Book Focus: Whatever Next? by Jill Murphy

Following a shared reading of the book we will discuss the key events and characters in this wonderful story. The children will learn to use vocabulary such as ‘First, Then, Next, Last’ or ‘At the end’. They will further develop their understanding of the story through role play activities. This week, the children will write labels for pictures from the story using their knowledge of initial sounds.

Phonics: This week’s sound focus: /n/, /m/, /d/, /g/ and /o/

Please keep the daily practice sheet at home and practise saying and writing the sounds until your child can confidently recognise and write each of them

Maths: This week we will focus on counting reliably with numbers from 16 to 20 using concrete objects and pictorials. The children will learn how to represent these numbers as numerals and to order these numbers along a number line from 0-20. The children will learn to use a range of resources to support their understanding of numbers within 20.

Early Morning Work: the children will continue with their morning routine of practicing letter formation.

TOPIC: Knowledge and Understanding of the World:

• This week we will introduce our Space theme and explore the children’s understanding of concepts about Space Exploration. Through exploration in the class role play areas they will learn about astronauts and the work they do.
• We will also discuss the significance of Remembrance Day and why people wear a red poppy. We will also discuss why it is important to consider and remember the people who help us. [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#205aeb” ]HOMEWORK: Please return homework by Wednesday.

Take some time this weekend to look up at the sky when it becomes dark outside. What do you see? Can you draw a picture about what you see? Ask an adult to help you write labels for your picture (eg. fireworks/ the moon/stars/aeroplane lights flickering)

Congratulations to all the children who received a certificate for completing their homework each week last term!!  The children have delighted in sharing their lovely work with the class each week. Please continue to send in homework by Wednesday so your child can receive another certificate at the end of this term too.

Class library books: Please remember to keep your child’s library book and yellow diary in their book bag. Books will be changed on any day next week [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#4ff946″ ]IMPORTANT DATES

• Parent Coffee Morning – 8th November
• Parent Workshop -Writing in the Early Years – 15th November 2017
• Other Parent Workshops- dates to be confirmed in due course
• Last day of term – 20th December 2017[/dropshadowbox]