Classification
As part of our science learning about living things, we’ve been using classification keys to identify animals and we also created our own key to classify people in our class.
To find out more about classification click here.
Living and Learning: I can talk about my feelings
This week, we’ve been thinking about different feelings we may have and why we may have had that feeling. We also talked about what we could do if a particular feeling was bothering us.
Our Living and Learning lesson involved using some resources from the Anna Freud website and it has lots of advice and links for children and families if they need support around mental health.
Celebration certificates
We’ve had another great week. I have seen fantastic progress in reading, handwriting and maths in just a few weeks. Keep up all the hard work year 1 and year 2! As we can’t have our usual celebration assembly on a Friday at the moment, I will be posting the certificate winners on here each week.
For great learning…
Liam – for great learning in all lessons this week, showing good concentration.
For sport and physical activity…
Ralph – Your attitude in PE and WUSU is fantastic. Well done!
For living and learning…
Lilly – for recognising how others are feeling.
What have we been up to in Foundation this week?
This week has been full of laughter and smiles in Foundation. All the children have come into school really happy and have been eager to get busy in the areas.
Here’s some highlights of our great week…
Watch the conker and acorn run in action!
Next week, we will continue our learning all about autumn. We will be thinking about describing words and making missing posters for Leaf Man. In maths, we will be starting our second focus number. I will give you a clue… It is one more than one and one less then three. That’s right, it’s number two!
PS Don’t forget to listen for a rustle in the leaves because it could be Leaf Man!
Home-Link Challenges
F2
F1
Bagel Bar
Our bagel bar has been open for a few weeks now and the children have really enjoyed eating breakfast with their friends and it’s been a positive start to their day. The doors open at 8.30am each morning and all children from Reception to Year 6 are welcome.
Living and Learning: I can talk about my feelings
This week, our Living and Learning statement is “I can talk about my feelings.”
We discussed our feelings and who we could talk to about them. We also talked about how we can identify other peoples emotions. For example; their body language and their facial expression. Then we played an emotions game.
“We played an emotions game. There are different emotions – each colour means a different emotion.”
It was really fun playing the emotions game. I enjoyed making the emotions.”
“I enjoyed play the game because I liked drawing the emotions.”
Word Passport
NOTICE FOR F2 PARENTS!
The F2 children will be bringing home their word passports and first words. By Friday, they will have done the first set of sounds: s, a, t, p.
Some of the words will include ‘i’ and ‘n’ – please don’t worry about reading these words until next week when we have done them in phonics.
Words, words, words
I have been spending lots of time teaching reading: story time, reading together (reading fluency), daily phonics lessons, vocabulary lessons, RIC (comprehension), individual reading, discussing books we have read, giving star ratings and lots more!
Being able to read and write the year 1 and year 2 common exception words is important to develop fluency. These words do not follow the usual spelling rules and so are sometimes tricky to read or write. They need to be learnt as whole words and just remembered.
We try to make learning them fun – singing the phase 3 tricky words song and phase 4 tricky words song for example! (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
Living and Learning: Mental health (I can talk about my feelings)
We have begun a topic on mental health in our Living and Learning lessons. This week, we have talked about our feelings. They change all the time and don’t last forever.
Can you guess the emotions that the children were showing?
Squiggle While You Wiggle
Last Friday we started Squiggle While You Wiggle. It is a kinaesthetic approach to stimulate early writing. Children use movement with music to develop their motor skills in preparation for writing. Through Squiggle While You Wiggle, children begin using scarves or ribbons to rehearse a range of shapes, which lead to children making those shapes on paper.
Check out us in action!
