Week beginning 18th December 2017
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#53f938″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents
Thank you for coming to see our musical performance last week. We are incredibly proud of all our Reception children and it was a joy to see how they have grown in confidence over the last three months.
As we approach the end of the Autumn term, we would like to wish you and your families a very joyous festive season. The children will celebrate with a class Christmas party on Tuesday afternoon. Please send in requested party treats by Tuesday morning. The children may wear their own clothes to school on Tuesday.
The last day of school for children is Wednesday 20th December. The children must wear their regular school uniform on this day.
Kind Regards
Miss Pillay [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#e71105″ ]This week’s learning
AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Light and Dark
Theme: Christmas
LITERACY: Book Focus: The Stick Man by Julia Donaldson
The children will love listening to the adventures of Stickman as he tries to make it back to his family in time for Christmas.
Phonics:
The children’s Phonics learning has now been assessed and next term they will work in smaller groups during Phonics lessons. This is to ensure that they learn phonic skills at the pace at which they are making progress. We will provide further information about this next term.
Please help your child by listening to them as they practise reading 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.
High frequency word lists: Next term we will begin sending home our ‘Animal’ word lists.
MATHS: This week we will revise concepts about number, shape and measure through our Christmas related activities.[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#0431ed” ]HOMEWORK:
Please return homework by Wednesday
Christmas
Draw a picture about what you have learnt about Christmas or about what you will be doing on Christmas day. Ask your adult to help you write a sentence about your picture.
Please note that the children will not receive holiday homework so please send in all green homework books by Wednesday. Homework will resume in the new term.
Books for home reading
As this is a 3 day week, could you please return reading books on these days:
Monday- Red and Blue group
Tuesday- Green and Orange group
Wednesday- Yellow group[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#78f4e1″ ]IMPORTANT DATES
19th December: Class Christmas party. Children to wear their own clothes to school
Wednesday, 20th December: Last day of term
Wednesday, 3rd January 2018: Children return to school[/dropshadowbox]