Newsletter – 14th January 2022 Our News All the staff would like to say a big ‘Thank You’ for all the lovely Christmas cards and gifts. We are incredibly impressed with how the children have settled back into their routines after the Christmas holidays. Well done everyone! The Ducklings have fully immersed themselves in learning since returning from their holidays and love completing the ‘Rainbow Challenge’ each week. They have to try and ‘independently’ achieve 7 challenge activities each week and collect a lolly stick for each colour of the rainbow. It is encouraging them to be more independent in their learning and to apply the skills they are being taught. Well done!
STARS OF THE WEEK Isla and Myles from Yellow Ducklings Katie and Amara from Brown Ducklings Our Learning We have been… - Finding out about the season of winter and reading a lovely story all about Jack Frost. - Exploring how water changes into ice and investigating and observing ice melting. - Creating Jack Frost pictures using a range of different media. - Practising our fine motor skills by using scissors to make paper snowflakes. -
Little Chicks have been using tools such as forks to print with and make polar bear pictures, comparing objects by size and length and exploring weight and capacity and finding objects that begin with the sounds g and h and trying out some arctic themed yoga.
Ducklings have been retelling the story of Jack Frost, writing their own Jack Frost stories, investigating the best place to put Jack Frost’s hands to stop them melting, learning all about the importance of the special number zero, comparing amounts and numbers using the vocabulary more and less, underarm throwing snowballs with increasing aim at targets and in phonics, learning the phonemes j, v, w, x and y and the tricky words he, me, we and she.
Our Learning – What next? The Ducklings and Little Chicks will be finding out all about where the very cold places are in the world and what they are called. We will be exploring what these places are like, the weather, the landscapes and the wildlife that lives there. In a few weeks, we are hoping to have a visitor who used to live in Norway, to come and talk to the children all about life there. In mathematics the Ducklings will be exploring the different ways to compose or make the numbers 4 and 5. The Ducklings will continue their phonics by looking beginning to look at digraphs (2 letters that make a single sound) such as sh, ch and th. We will be sharing our favourite books with the class and writing some book reviews.