F.S. Blog

We have had a super last week of the half term in FS and our book has been The Little Red Hen. We have talked a lot about being kind and helpful to our friends and have loved doing lots of activities related to The Little Red Hen. We hope you all have a lovely half term holiday and look forward to seeing you again when we return to school. Thank you as always for your continued support.

DT

This week, in DT, we have been practising our sewing skills. We designed a puppet and then had to use the running stitch to join our two puppet pieces together.
Here are our final puppets!

What’s coming up!

Over the last 2 weeks we have been reading The Ugly Duckling and learning about Chinese New Year. The children have thoroughly enjoyed it and have made their own swans, ducklings and pond pictures. They have also picked ducks out of a pond (pretend!) to help them write their numbers.
We have loved learning about Chinese New Year and particularly enjoyed tasting a variety of Chinese food and making our own Chinese lanterns.
The FS2 children are blowing us away with their sentence writing and FS1 are continuing to work really hard in their phonics lessons. All of the children love exploring the classroom and engage brilliantly in all the activities available.

What’s coming up?

Another super week in Foundation Stage. The Three Little Pigs has been our theme for the week. We have explored materials to use for the pig’s houses and sorted things into hard and soft groups. The children have loved painting their own pigs and houses, as well as cutting clothes out to dress each pig. We are so impressed with FS2’s writing, keep it up everyone!

Fire brigade visit

We were super lucky today as the fire brigade came for a visit. They began by telling us all about how to keep safe at home and they read us a story about a fire dog. They then took us outside to explore their fire engine. Mr Mallison even got dressed up as a fire fighter! After sitting in the fire engine, we were allowed to squirt the fire hose….just like the characters in the story that we had read about! We were all so excited.

This week we have all been continuing to work on out handwriting and presentation. We have been practising our letter formation and using Fred fingers to help us with our spelling.
These are just a few of the great pieces we have seen this week.

What’s coming up?

This week we have been reading the story of The Gingerbread Man. The children have been really enthusiastic exploring the classroom activities and loved decorating their own gingerbread men. FS2 are working so hard on their handwriting and number formation. FS1 are also working hard at writing their names and recognising their numbers.

We had fun in computing this week, using the paint tools to decorate our own Gingerbread Man. Look how cute they are!

Special Mention

This week Noah was awarded the special mention for his super effort in phonics and writing. Look at his amazing sentences this week!

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Happy New Year to you all! It has been so lovely to welcome the children back to school this week. They have all come with positive attitudes and have been so excited to see their friends again. This half term, our main focus is going to be on traditional tales. We have started this week with Goldilocks and The Three Bears. The children have made bear faces, cotton bud painted the bear’s cottage and have loved acting out the story in the home corner amongst many other things!

Porridge making and tasting

Goldilocks loves porridge! We thought it would be fun to make and taste some porridge, just like the three bears made.

Here are our little bears in action!

Reading book reminder!

We send home library books on a Wednesday, which you can enjoy together as a family. These books then need to be returned the following Wednesday to be changed.

Some children will also bring home a reading book, which they need to read to a grown up. These books help the children to develop their reading fluency. Please could you encourage the children to read them daily. We set a target for every child to read a minimum of three times per week!

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The last week of the Autumn term is always exciting in school, but it’s especially exciting in Foundation Stage! We have had such fun this week, making cards, calendars and Christmas party hats. The children loved our disco/party day and all joined in musical statues, musicals chairs and the colour game really well. We also some great dance moves!
Thank you for all of your support over the last term and we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope you have a healthy and happy New Year.

Ideas for fun Christmas craft

If you have a few minutes to kill over the Christmas period, why not have a go at some Christmas colouring or painting.

Or, have a go at making a Christmas wreath.
Here is one Mrs Joplin made earlier…

We can’t wait to see you all again in the New Year!

We have had a super week in FS. The children were amazing in our play and we are so proud of each and every one of them as we’re sure you are too. We have also had fun doing lots Christmas activities and our classroom is buzzing with excitement!

What we’ve been up to…

In theme, this week, we have been thinking about how we celebrate Christmas. We have been talking about all of the lovely decorations we have in our homes and had a go at drawing our Christmas tree.

What’s coming up!

Christmas has arrived in FS this week and we are having so much fun! Our Elf, ‘Chippy’, has come to stay and is causing all sorts of mischief!! The children are so excited to see what he has been up to each morning!! We have also had fun dressing as elves and reindeer in our home corner. The children have been counting decorations onto Christmas trees, making paper chains and baubles as well as drawing things they’d like for Christmas on a stocking. FS is such a magical place to be at this time of year and the team are enjoying it as much as the children!

What we’ve been working on…

In computing, this week, we’ve been exploring different paint tools to help us create seasonal pictures.

In an afternoon, we’ve been learning the nativity story. The children have some great knowledge and can recall the main events. They have had a go at writing sentences to show their understanding.

What’s coming up?

We have focused our week on The Gruffalo. The children have loved joining in reading the story and have all been so attentive. They have made foxes, snakes and mouse ears as well as FS2 drawing and labelling their own Gruffalos! We have continued practising our Christmas play and the children are doing amazingly well, we can’t wait to share it with you!

What we’ve been learning this week!

In maths this week, we have been finding and naming 4 sided shapes. Many of the children wowed us with their super shape knowledge! What 2D shapes can you see in this picture? How many sides do they have?

What’s coming up?

The children have been so excited to see it snowing this week and loved playing outside in it! We have also continued to learn about Diwali and enjoyed making lanterns, painting mendhi patterns and listening to Dipal’s story.

Play rehearsals

We are now well under way with our Nativity rehearsals. The children are thoroughly enjoying singing the songs and practising their lines. We can’t wait for you to see it!

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