Newsletter – 22nd October 2021 Our News Well done to all of the Ducklings and Little Chicks for an amazing half-term at school! They have all settled brilliantly. It was lovely to share how they have settled in, talk about their achievements so far and their next steps of learning at the parents’ meetings this week. Thank you for your on-going support. The last few weeks have been spent exploring the celebration of harvest time and the changing of the seasons into autumn. The children have enjoyed going on autumn welly walks and looking at the changes that are happening to the world around them. They have loved collecting natural autumn treasures and using their senses to describe them. They have found out about how some animals hibernate or migrate in autumn to prepare for the cold winter months. The children have learnt some lovely harvest and autumn songs. Ask them to sing and sign them for you! They have found out more about where their foods come from and what they are thankful for. This week they have been very lucky to have a look in our school garden at of the different vegetables growing. They have been printing with vegetables to make Halloween pumpkin pictures and printing with their hands and fingers to make the different colours on autumn trees. The children have enjoyed reading the traditional tale of The Enormous Turnip and know it so well now that they can join in with the story telling too. Ask them to retell the story to you in their own words.
STARS OF THE WEEK Frankie and Vinnie from Yellow Ducklings Jenson and Oscar from Brown Ducklings Little Chicks We have been… - Tracing around 2D shapes and naming them. - Drawing around leaf and autumn shape templates. - Finding out about number 4. - Counting and sorting leaves up to 5. - Playing rhyming games.
Ducklings We have been… - Writing harvest fruit and vegetable shopping lists. - Drawing and writing descriptive labels for natural autumn objects. - Continuing patterns, spotting mistakes in patterns and creating our own patterns involving colours, shapes, numbers, sounds and so on. - Exploring and investigating 1,2,3! Subitising with these amounts, counting, comparing, finding 1 more and 1 less and exploring different ways to make these amounts in different ways. - Learning the letter names, their sounds, how to write them and read words with the letters o, c, k, ck, e, u and r in.