Halloween 2016

Hello Parents!

We have had a great week so far. We have been doing a lot of learning, and enjoyed making some Halloween crafts.

Literacy

We used spiders to trace our initial sounds. 

Then we revised our camera words by trying to spot them and swatting them as quickly as possible! 

Some of the kids even tried blending some words by themselves. 

 We used the words that we have learnt so far to read our very first SENTENCE!!!! It was a very exciting 

day, especially for me :) 

 We mixed letters to make words - this was a great way of distinguishing between initial/final sounds and middle sounds. 

We also practiced writing words by listening to them when they were called out. Again, another great way to repeat the word and distinguish between the initial and final sounds.  

Maths

We learnt how to count items and write matching numerals. 

We also made patterns and counted the number of different shapes that we used. 

 We then made shape monsters!

We learnt about length and height and ordered items according to their height/length. 

We also learnt how to measure our heads when making crowns. This is a great skills for the kids to have for future junk modelling. 

Science/Art

We learnt about spiders, the number of legs they have and then did various fun spider activities!

 Making a spider web took a lot of fine motor control. Well done girls!

 We also made ghosts and dancing skeletons using cotton wool and cotton buds. 

 We made black cats for Halloween too! And we all knew how to write the word 'cat'.

It has been a great week and the kids really enjoyed all the crafts and playing in the witch's tavern. 

  Mixing magic potions is fun!!! Even I joined in :) 

	This Week (Halloween)		Next Week (Three little pigs)
Literacy	This week we practiced our camera words: I he go to no the		We will be introducing a new set of sounds: b, d, r, l, f, h, i, u
Math	This week we learnt about length and height. We measured each other and also measured the diameter of our heads when making crowns.		Next week, we will be measuring length and height to make the three little pigs’ houses. We will also be learning how to recite and recognize numbers from 10-20.
Science	We learnt about spiders and bats as a part of our Halloween week. We also revised the skeletal system after singing ‘dem bones’.		We will talk about different materials; their weight, texture and stability.
Art	We made various crafts of spiders, bats, skeletons and jack-o-lanterns.		We will follow up on our science lesson and talk about how we can construct houses to hold it together. We will also compare what kinds of materials are more stable than others.
PSED	Our PSED was linked to role play and how to take turns when there is a new role play set up.		Our PSED will be linked to the ‘three little pigs’ book. This will be a way of transitioning into our new topic ‘My family’. We will talk about how to treat family members and the importance of supporting them.
Physical	We made Frankenstein and walked around like him all day! It was a lot of fun!		We will talk about the big bad wolf blowing the houses down. Then, it will be linked to a simple respiratory system class. We will blow into balloons to see how big our lung capacity is.
Home Learning	You may practice the camera words by asking kids to spot them in books. If you have any old newspapers/magazines, ask them to circle the words one by one. For example, find all the ‘the’ on this page and ‘no’ on the next page.
Notices and Events		Please refer to my letter/e-mail about the upcoming Christmas show.