Week beginning 19th November 2018

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#d7cafe” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents, carers

Thank you to all the parent helpers who came along to help us on the trip to the cinema.

Kind Regards

Miss Pillay, Mrs Crooks, Miss Thompson and Mrs Carden [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#741b9d” ]LEARNING VIDEO CLIPS

Number formation rhymes

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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#fef746″ ]AUTUMN 2 TOPIC: Light and Dark

This week’s learning

LITERACY

Book Focus: a selection of non-fiction books about Space

The children have really enjoyed learning about Space and the planets so this week we will continue to explore non-fiction books about this topic, exploring aspects of night and day and how and why this occurs.

Phonics: /u/, /r/, /h/ /b/ and /f/

MATHS:

• To place numbers in order

• To match numeral to a quantity

• To use the language of ‘more’ and ‘fewer’ to compare two sets of objects

• To say which number is one more or one less than a given number

• To count back from a given number

Knowledge and Understanding of the World: Explore aspects of night and day.

Communication and Language: To ask questions using words such as who, what, when, how and why things happen and to begin to give own explanations. [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#fe4746″ ]HOMEWORK

Learning about Space

Can you draw a picture of the planets in our Solar System? Can you use your knowledge of initial sounds to write labels for each planet in your picture? Which is the smallest planet? Which is the biggest planet?

READING BOOKS Please read with your child and write a comment in the yellow reading diary. Please keep both reading books and yellow diary in your child’s bookbag after each reading. Please note that if reading books have been lost, they will need to be replaced [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#464efe” ]IMPORTANT DATES

Tuesday 11th December – Reception Christmas performance to parents 9.30am (all parents/carers are welcome to attend a short performance by the children)

Friday, 14th December 2018 – Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas lunch for children [/dropshadowbox]