We hope you all had  fabulous half term!

This week we are starting a new project called Once Upon a Time.  In project this week we will be having the story Little Red Riding Hood and then discussing characters. We will also encourage small world play and using the puppets to act out stories. We will hear the story Jack and the Beanstalk and learn about castles and kingdoms.

                                 

The daily stories we are having in class are al stories to build up the children's emotional literacy skills. 

We have also started something ew this week called Talk Through Stories where we listen to the same story every day and do different activities with that story. This is to help develop the children's vocabulary, understanding of how stories are structured, develop discussion and oracy skills and increase their enjoyment of listening to stories. This week's story is Hugless Douglas which they are really enjoying so far!

In Phonics Reception children are doing u, l, f, b and their first digraph (2 letters that make one sound) ai (as in snail)Year 1s are doing th (this and that) , qu (queen), ou (out), oi (soil) and ue (argue). We are continuing to do squiggle to build up our motor skills.

We have started to do story scribes this week and this is where the children tell us a story and they write the sounds they can hear. They then get to act their story out at the end of the day with their friends.

In maths this week we are continuing to subitise (recognising an amount without counting) we have done this with listening to the ting of the triangle being struck and then holding up our fingers to say how many times the children heard the beat, we have also looked at dots on different arrangements. We will covering the number 4 and recognising that it is one more than 3.We are also looking at size and the language that we use to compare. 

We have started Jigsaw which is our RSHE curriculum. This week the children are focussing on what they are good at and that we are all good at different things. In RE the children will be learning about Diwali.

We are introducing how we talk about behaviour in school to the children and explaining about Flipping your lid. We will watch the cosmic kids episode on the guard dog and the wise owl as this explains the hand brain model to the children really effectively. You can see this here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNycQraNYhM                            

                                          

We will reintroduce the calm area in the classroom and explain that the children can go there if they need to have some time. We will begin to teach the children other strategies in weekly mindfulness and yoga sessions from next week.

Don't forget school photos tomorrow and parent teacher meeting next week.

Have a good week.