Please remember that this is a three day week and school will be closed on Thursday and Friday for the Moon Festival.
MESSAGES
- As the weather is beginning to change please make sure your child comes to school with suitable named outdoor clothes; a raincoat with a hood and rain boots, which they can change into to go outside when it is wet. Please label all items with your child’s name!
- Spare clothes: please remember that accidents do happen and it is very helpful to keep a spare set of named clothes in your childs cubby basket. Please include socks!
- P.E and swimming days are on the timetable in your child’s communication book. Please send P.E kit, and swimming kit on the correct day! Please label all items with your child’s name!
LEARNING THEME: BOOKS
We will be looking closely at a range of books to see how they are similar and different and talking with the children about the books they like, how we read them, what they look like and their features.
THE BIG QUESTION: WHAT ARE BOOKS ?
We will be talking to the children about books and finding out what they know about books already. They will see books of different shapes and sizes, look at the different pictures and think about different stories of information books. We will be looking at how we can make our own class books and encouraging the children to make their own using the resources in the classroom. What is your favourite book to share at home? Why?
LITERACY
The children will make their own books about things they like. We will support them to use the tools and resources in the classroom effectively and safely. The children will be invited to share their books and read them together once they are finished.
KEY VOCABULARY
Books, story, picture, words, writing, join, stapler, hole punch
Development Outcomes
Listen and respond to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.
Speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.
Give meaning to the marks they make as they draw, write and paint.
Uses simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately.
Selects appropriate resources and adapts work where necessary.
PHONICS
We will play some simple phonics games with the children to develop their listening skills and begin to focus on the sounds /s/ and /a/ and /t/. (sat, as, at).
MATHS
We will be counting this week and looking at how to count lots of different objects carefully, one by one. We will also be counting things that we can’t move or touch, such as claps and jumps.
KEY VOCABULARY
Count, one by one, move, touch, careful, number words from 0 – 20
Development Outcomes
Counts actions or objects which cannot be moved.
Counts objects to 10, and beginning to count beyond 10.
Counts out up to six objects from a larger group.
DUTCH
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MANDARIN THEME: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival
SONG: 八月十五月儿圆 （ba yue shi wu yue er yuan）
KEY VOCABULARY
Moon月亮（yueliang）, mooncake月饼（yuebing）， Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节（zhongqiujie）， rabbit兔子（tuzi）