Early Years focus 23.5 16 MFL Week

This week in Nursery and Reception we are celebrating our annual MFL Week with the whole school. Each year group celebrates a festival from around the world and Early Years have chosen the Brazilian Carnival with a link to the upcoming Olympic Games. 

The children will be learning about Brazil and completing focussed activities throughout the week which include: learning to play football and Brazilian Tag, making rainbow fruit skewers and chocolate truffles, and creating some collage art work and making a rainmaker instrument. 

We will complete the week with a carnival on Friday where we invite all the children in EYFS to dress in bright colours. 

Reception focus 16.5.16

This week in Reception, we are continuing our theme of animals and focussing on the story 'Noah's Ark' from the Bible. The children will be designing and making their own boats and experimenting if they float or sink. They will also be making rainbows using a range of media including mixing and making their own colours. 

All children in Reception have been given a partner. They need to work with their partner all week, and they will complete some challenges together as well as line up together, sit together and sign in for each other. This will test the children's conversational skills as well as compromise and negotiation. 

In Maths, to link with our topic we will be learning to count in and write numbers in 2s up to 20. 

In phonics, we are focussing on Phase 4 and recapping the digraphs 'oa' and 'oo'. 

Nursery Focus W/C 16/05

This week in Nursery, our theme is Julia Donaldson. We will be reading many of her stories such as A Squash and A Squeeze, Monkey Puzzle and The Smartest Giant in Town.


In maths, we will be ordering numbers.


In art, we are continuing our theme of nature and will be making many natural collages.




In addition, this week we will be making Gruffalo crumble.

Reception Focus W/C 9.5.16

 In Reception this week, we are continuing the theme of animals around the World. The children will be learning about where particular animals live and will have the opportunity to sort animals according to their habits.

We are sequencing the story of Creation this week, further linking to our RE and talking about the Bible and what it represents for Christians. 

In phonics we will be recapping the trigraphs 'igh' and 'air' as well all previous ones taught.

In Maths our focus is money. We are recapping what coin is what, investigating how many pennies go into each coin and adding small amounts of money together.
 

Nursery Focus W/C 09/05

This week in Nursery we are continuing with our Gruffalo topic.


The children will be painting pictures of the Gruffalo. They will be experimenting mixing the colours together that we need for the features of the Gruffalo.  We will also be making the Gruffalo with play dough.


In addition, this week we will be talking about nature. We will read the story in the woods and will look for natural materials. We will be discussing where the animals in the story lived and will use natural objects to build these habitats, for example, the log pile house.

Nursery focus 2.5.16

This week in Nursery, we are starting our Gruffalo topic. The children are very excited about their visit to the Gruffalo trail. We will be reading the story of the Gruffalo and will be completing many Gruffalo themed activities. The children are enjoying learning The Gruffalo Song.


In addition, the children will have the own opportunity to tell and act out their own stories during our helicopter session.

Reception focus 2.5.16

 In Reception this week, the children have requested to learn about animals around the World. This has linked nicely from our mini beast topic, as we have been discussing habitats and where we find different animals. 

We will reading the story of Creation to link to our RE and taking about the Bible and what it represents for Christians. 

In phonics we will be recapping the digraphs 'ee' and 'or' as well all previous ones taught.

In Maths we will be teaching subtraction using a number line. memory.