Newsletter – 8th October 2021 Our News The Ducklings are going to be bringing home their first reading books. Please comment and sign when they have read with you at home. To begin with, the children will bring home some picture books. They are to use the illustrations to help them ‘tell’ a story. You can encourage them to talk about the pictures by asking lots of questions – How? What? Why? When? Who? Where? We can tell that lots of children have been busy practising doing up and undoing their buttons, as well as fastening their own coats! Well done! For the Ducklings’ parents, the information all about Communication, Language and Literacy in Reception has been placed for you to read on the Ducklings Class page of the school website. Mr Kenyon, our British Sign Language expert, supports one of our pupils who is deaf. As well as supporting them, he is teaching us all how to use sign language in our daily routines. It is a fantastic opportunity for us and the children love learning this new skill. Ask them to show you what they have learnt so far at home! You will be amazed!
STARS OF THE WEEK Lily S and Abel in Yellow Ducklings Hannah and Jenson in Brown Ducklings Our Learning Over the last few weeks the children have loved finding out more about how they have grown and changed since being babies and all of the different parts of their bodies and what they can do. They have also been talking about how they are all different and what is the same, encouraging and developing tolerance.
Little Chicks We have been… - Mark making with chalks and chalkboards. - Drawing themselves and their friends. - Recapping over the numbers 1,2 and 3 by counting, writing the numbers and so on. - Comparing small amounts and saying which has more, less, same. - Exploring making sounds with their bodies – clapping, stamping and so on.
Ducklings We have been… - Writing labels for the different parts of their bodies. - In Phonics we have been sorting objects according to their initial sounds and learning about the letter names and sounds p, i, n, m, d and g – how to write them, listening out for them and reading words with them in. - Looking at amounts and recognizing more than, fewer than or the same as. - Comparing size, mass (weight) and capacity and encouraging the use of different comparative vocabulary such as shortest, taller, heaviest, nearly empty and full. BLOG Visit the school website and have a look at our class blogs with your child. This is another way for them to share with you what they have been learning at school. You could write and post a comment together!