F.S. Blog

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!

What’s coming up?

This week we have started learning about Diwali. The children have made their own paper plate Diya lamps, copied some rangoli patterns using shapes and made firework pictures. They also tried some Indian food and we were so impressed with how willing they all were to try different things!

We’d also like to say how lovely it has been to see so many parents on a Tuesday afternoon at Library Time, thank you for your continued support.

Zachary and Jacob were all smiles sitting on the top table for lunch this Friday! Well done boys!

We are learning…

This week, we have been continuing to develop our understanding of number and place value by finding one more and one less of a number to 10.

What’s coming up?

It has been lovely to welcome the children back to Foundation Stage and it has been great to hear all about their half term holiday. We have continued learning about the seasons and been outside collecting leaves and other autumnal things. In addition, we have also been talking about Remembrance Day and have enjoyed making poppy wreaths.

In ICT this week, we have been continuing to practise our mouse and pad skills. We had a real challenge learning how to drag and drop using the laptop pad but we persisted and now we can move and select objects with so control.

Reading is coming along in Foundation Stage 2! We are continuing to practice our set 1 phonic sounds and applying our blending skills to help us read. These are the sounds that we have learned so far…

What’s coming up?

FS have had a fantastic last week of the half term. We have been learning about the seasons with a focus on Autumn and Harvest. The children have painted amazing paper plate pumpkins and used their fingers to paint Autumn trees. They also loved making some Halloween biscuits. We hope you all have a lovely half term holiday and we will see you back for more FS fun afterwards.

What we’ve been working on…

We have been continuing to develop our understanding of numbers to 10 in maths. We have been exploring how many different ways we can make 1, 2 and 3.

Here is a great video to help the children help to understand the composition of numbers to 5.

www.YouTube.com/watch?v=UqN32fNIEQY

Reading

Thank you to those who having been reading at home regularly. At Brandesburton we aim to read 3 times a week or more at home. Every little bit counts, so even just 5 minute a night can make a huge difference.

What is coming up?

In FS this week we having been reading the books ‘Elmer’ and ‘The Colour Monster’. We have talked about our feelings and how our actions make others feel. The children have loved doing lots of activities linked to Elmer as well as being super stars with their phonics and maths lessons.

ICT

This week, we have been learning how to use a mouse to navigate on a computer. We have been piecing together a four piece jigsaw. We have loved it!

What we’ve been working on…

We have been continuing to build our phonetic knowledge to help us read and write simple CVC words. At home this week the children could practice their writing by Fred talking and then writing these words.

What’s coming up?

This week in FS we have been learning about where we live, who we live with and different types of houses. The children in FS2 did an amazing job of drawing their own homes and all of the children have enjoyed cutting and sticking houses and making their own family trees. We also had our own FS baptism in the classroom and then went for a super visit to Brandesburton Church. The children were all so well behaved and listened so well.

Maths

In maths this week, we have been finding and subitising 4 and 5. We have been looking at different ways the numbers 4 and 5 could be represented.

What we are working on…

We are continuing to work on reading and writing CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words.

If you want to help at home, you could ask your child to try to ‘Fred talk’ (sound out) then write some of these words –

cat

man

pin

sad

cup

Reading

We didn’t do quite as well with our reading this week. Just over 1/2 of the reading group read 3 times or more at home. Please make sure that you read as regularly as you can, as it really does help the children to progress!

What’s coming up?