F.S. Blog

We have had such a fun week in Foundation Stage thinking about our birthdays! The children have enjoyed making play dough cakes, paper chains, party hats and balloons. They also loved listening to the story ‘Kipper’s birthday’ by Mick Inkpen. All of the children are working hard during their phonics lessons. In maths, FS2 are learning how to find 1 more and 1 less than a given number.

What are we working on?

We have been continuing to work on reading and writing CVC words. Many of us can now write our names without our name cards and we have been practicing copying less familiar words. We had a go at writing a birthday card for a friend. Look at some of our super writing!

Reading

In our phonics lessons, some of us have been reading CVC words, using our Fred talk and blending skills. Of those children who have started taking blending books home to read with their parents, 66% read 3 times or more this week. Great job everyone!

What’s coming up?

This week we have loved reading the book ‘Incredible You’. The children had great fun thinking about what animal they would like to be and we also explored all of the different things they can do with their bodies. We had great jumping, hopping and lots of funny faces made. The FS2 children are very engaged with their RWI lessons and we can see their progress already!

We have also been mixing paints whilst creating our own self-portraits. Look at some of the fantastic work we have created!

Attendance

Once again, we have had a brilliant week when it comes too attendance!

We couldn’t ask for more!

Reading books

Could we please just remind you that all reading books from the library need to be returned on Wednesday to be changed!

What’s coming up?

Another fabulous week in FS. We have been talking about things we like and things we don’t and thinking about our families. The FS2 children have drawn and labelled their favourite toy. They have also made an excellent start to our RWI lessons. FS1 children have begun their phonics lessons and have blown us away at how well they can order the letters in their names. They have settled so well.

In maths this week, we have been comparing amounts. We explored more and less, bigger and smaller and heavier and lighter.

What’s happening this term?

This week’s focus

This week, we have continued to practise our name writing. In phonics we have been learning to read and write these sounds…

m – Maisy mountain

a – apple

s – snake

d – dinosaur

t – tower

We have had great week and the children are settled in our new routines. Children in FS2 have completed their Baseline assessment and have really impressed us! All of the children have loved exploring the classroom, painting, collaging, playing in the sand and water as well as the home corner and construction area. They also enjoyed going on a ‘listening walk’ around school. Next week we will begin our Read Write Inc lessons in FS2 .

Maths

We started our maths this week! We have learned how to finding matching objects and pictures, identify sets and sort into groups. We had a super tricky challenge of sorting Grandma’s buttons lots of different ways!

Books

Wednesday is our library day and on Wednesday of this week the children took home a library book. Could we ask that you return these books each week to be swapped, please. These books are for you to share and enjoy as a family.

What we are working on!

This half term, our focus is ‘All about me!’ We will be exploring things we like and dislike, what it means to be part of a family or community and our local environment. We will also be practicing our name writing. We’d love to see any writing the children work on at home.

Attendance

A big well done to all of the children in Foundation Stage! This week our attendance was a fantastic 100%!

It has been so wonderful to welcome all of the children into Foundation Stage this week. They have all settled so well and it has been lovely hearing about all their summer adventures. This half term our theme is going to be ‘All About Me’. We will think about things we like and don’t like, what we look like, who we live with and where we live amongst many other things.

This week, the children have enjoyed exploring the different areas in our classroom. They have coloured, got sticky, played in the sand and water, and lots more!

Lots of the children have been exploring the maths area and showing super number recognition!

What we are working on

Over the next week or two, we will be working on getting settled into the environment, learning the new class rules and learning more about each other.

What an amazing year we have had in Foundation Stage. The children have worked and played so hard and have all been an absolute pleasure to teach. We will miss them all so much and hope you all have a very safe and happy summer. We will look forward to welcoming our new FS2 in September.

This week we have been learning about travel and different forms of transport. We have enjoyed reading ‘The Train Ride’ and ‘We all go travelling by’. The children have loved painting and glittering hot air balloons, sorting vehicles into groups and thinking about whether they go on the road, in the air, on water or on a track.

FS have thoroughly enjoyed our Sports Week. They have joined in boules, football, boccia, volleyball, golf, handball and of course Sports Day. We have been so proud of how all the children joined in with such enthusiasm and team spirit.

We had an amazing day on Monday visiting Wassand Hall. The children had so much fun making their own bug houses, going on a ladybird hunt and drawing their own Minibeasts. They also loved running around the grounds, rolling down the hills and playing stuck in the mud. Our parent helpers were fantastic, thank you so much to you all.

The children have had a super first week back at school and it has been lovely to hear all about what they have been doing during half term. This week we have been learning about how people help us, particularly focusing on the police force and fire brigade. We have made fire engines and police cars and the FS2 children have written some amazing sentences to describe a fire engine.