Week beginning 11th December 2017

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You are invited to a Christmas Musical performance by Reception children on Tuesday 12th December 2017 at 9.30am in the main hall.

We look forward to seeing you then.

Kind Regards

Miss Pillay [/dropshadowbox]

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This week’s learning

AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Light and Dark

THEME: Christmas

LITERACY:

Book Focus: The story of Christmas

During the remaining week and a half of this term the children will be learning more about Christmas, why it is celebrated and how it is celebrated around the world.

Phonics: We will continue to revise the Phase 2 phonemes and how to form each grapheme. The children will also practise reading the 5 tricky words learnt thus far Please continue to use the daily decoding homework to support your child with learning to blend sounds to read short cvc words. Please help your child by listening to them as they practise reading the sounds and words using their phonic knowledge. Help them to point under each sound as they say each sound, then sweep their finger across the word as they blend to decode the word. Please keep these sheets at home

MATHS:

This week we will revise concepts about numeral and quantity match and will also explore aspects of shape and measure through our Christmas related activities such as weighing presents and ordering by weight.

EAD: The children have been practising well for their musical performance to you on Tuesday. Also this week they will enjoy creating and making a range of Christmas related crafts in the creative areas of the classroom. [/dropshadowbox]

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A letter to Santa

Please support your child to write a short letter to Santa about what they may want for Christmas or just a note to ask a Santa a question. Please encourage your child to write by themselves using their knowledge of letter sounds but you may scribe for them if they find this challenging.

Books for home reading

Please note which day your child will be expected to return their books:

Mondays- Red group

Tuesdays- Blue group

Wednesdays- Green group

Thursdays- Orange Group

Fridays – Yellow group (Apologies to Yellow group, due to rehearsals last Friday we were unable to change Yellow group books and will do so on Monday)

 

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12th December: Reception Christmas Performance to parents at 9.30am in main hall

15th December: Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day

19th December: Class Christmas party. Children to wear their own clothes to school

20th December: Last day of term

3rd January 2018: Children return to school [/dropshadowbox]