Likes and Dislikes - places and food

Hi parents! What a great week it has been!! We did so much learning and had so much fun - I couldn't be prouder of RM!

Here are the highlights:

For Literacy, we learnt a new game called 'trash' or 'treasure'. The kids had to pick up a coin, sound it out and decide if it was a real word or not. We had a lot of fun doing this!

We also made cameras so that we could learn and remember our camera words for this month!

For maths, we had fun learning how to repeat patterns of colour and shape.

For art, we did a fun seaside project! We painted the background and then stepped on real sad to know what it's like to have our feet in the sand. Then we painted the sea into a pattern using various shades of blue. The kids had a lot of fun doing this!

Science was an interesting lesson because we learnt about digestion! First we drew what we like to eat, then we pasted the food into our mouths and finally we drew the food going down into our tummies!

We learnt how to be gentle towards each other and play nicely in our brand new role-play corner. Through this, the kids also practiced speaking and writing. 

We did a lot of learning during our free play, as well!

Our Star of the Week is Lucy!! She did so well at recognising sounds and putting them together to make words, I am so impressed (as you can so clearly see in this photo!)

Please have a look at my weekly update for more information regarding home learning and next week. 

Thank you and have a lovely weekend! :) 

RM Weekly Update Term: 1.1              Week: 7           Dates: 03rd – 07th Sept 2016

                                                                                                                                         

	This Week (Likes and dislikes – places and food)		Next Week ( Likes and dislikes – animals and colours)
Literacy	This week we continued to learn three letter words containing the sounds ‘s’,’g’,’p’,’t’,’a’,’c’ and ‘o’. We also learnt our ‘camera words’ – ‘I’,’go’,’no’,’to’,’he’,’the’. These are words that we see every day but they don’t follow the normal rules when putting the sounds together. It would be beneficial for the kids to practice them at home.		Next week, we will continue to practice blending (reading words). We will also introduce the kids to some four letter words such as ‘lamp, ‘camp’ and ‘stag’.
Math	We had a lot of fun making patterns and repeating patterns this week. It was interesting to see how we could repeat patterns using shapes, colour and even sounds. We focused on the formation and representation of ‘9’ and 10’ as well.		Next week we will revise 1-10; recognition, formation, representation, matching to quantity and conserving numbers. We will go over patterns as well because the kids really enjoyed this topic.
Science	We used our topic of likes and dislikes to talk about places and foods we like. We learnt about what happens to food when we eat them and how our body uses it to give us energy. This was a great way of teaching the kids the importance of food and why we have to wait for it to get to our bellies before we go and play.		We will use the topic of likes and dislikes to talk about animals and colours. It will be a great way of learning about pets and how we can look after them.
Art	Similar to Science, we did some very cool art projects on the beach (places we like) and food digestion (food we like).		Next week, we will be having a lot of fun mixing colours and making rainbow bread. We will also explore our animal hospital through role-play.
PSED	Our PSED was all about learning how to be gentle with each other. We also used this topic when role-playing in our brand new animal hospital!		This will be a time to talk about and revise our likes and dislikes. Then we will go use the magazines sent from home to find and cut out things we like. We will also try to link the pictures to words.
Physical	We had a lot of fun making up our own dances to songs such as the ‘the magic train ride’ and ‘the food song’. It was linked to our topics of places and food we like.		We will be singing the jungle boogie song and come up with various moves for the different animals!
Home Learning	Please practice the camera words with your children – I, he, go, no, to and the. You can ask them to spot them in signs or get them to use it in everyday sentences.
Notices and Events		-

Our Wizard of Oz class party!

It was RM's first class party in the classroom and I was very impressed at how well we did! We had so much fun and were very aware of not shouting  and disturbing the other classes. Some parents joined us too! Have a look at all the fun we had :)

 Wizard of Oz visited us!!