You all looked fantastic in your dressing up clothes! We had a mixture of fictional superheroes with amazing superpowers (ice blast, flight, super speed etc) and real life people who help us (police officers, doctors etc).
Here is a picture of our heroes united! 
Here is the completed firework art for Chinese New Year! We placed large black paper on the floor and flicked paint from paintbrushes and toothbrushes onto it! Each group added their special section to make this beautiful collaborative piece.
Well done everyone!
What a fabulous morning we have had celebrating Chinese New Year!
We made Year of the Rat masks, created a group firework splatter, made a concertina fold dragon, learned a Chinese New Year dance & played instruments and learned how to dance like the lions in the parade. We had SO much fun.
To round off the celebrations, Tiffany’s family kindly gave everybody a fortune cookie to take home with them. We are excited to crack them open and find out our fortunes!
Happy Chinese Year to you and your families if you are celebrating this weekend. We hope you have a wonderful time and share lots of pictures and stories with us.
We have had some fantastic submissions from parents about the learning that takes place at home!
We are able to approve any submissions easily now so please keep sending them in!
Any events you attend, routines of the day, counting, building with construction kits, paintings, cooking etc all count! Try to add in what your child has said and perhaps take a photograph of the amazing things they have been doing.
We look forward to reading more!
Thank you so much for coming to our early years maths workshop.
Here is the presentation so you can refresh or catch up if you missed it (below video and game links).
Links to songs;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDQDyx59QY4&t=13s
Our favourite websites for maths games are;
www.ictgames.com
www.abcya.com
www.topmarks.co.uk
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/topics/numeracy
WORKSHOP PRESENTATION- CLICK THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD
Most of our children are now starting to learn how to read the green word cards (as shown in the phonics workshops).
We segment (split the word into sounds) and then blend it back together to read the word e.g. c-a-t, cat.
Our current words we are learning are;
dad, man, mad, sat, mat, sam (lower case for the purpose of segmenting and blending).
You can practice reading and writing these at home to help the words go into the orthographic store in your child’s brain!
Happy reading!
In the book bags you will find a plastic wallet with a bingo game board and 6 words to match. Please keep this in the book bags daily so we can play in school too!
Ask your child to match the words by saying them out loud and then looking for the same word on the board. Place it on top and repeat for all 6 words until the board is filled! Please do not glue them as your child will not be able to play with it again and we cannot then give it to another child to take home with them.
Your child may be on the same word game for a number of weeks or they may advance onto other games- just keep going!
The word games are not in any numerical or hierarchical order as all children need to learn all the words. One week you might have game number 4 and the next game number 15! It just helps us keep track of who has had each game so we do not repeat them.
Happy playing! If you have any questions then please ask at the beginning or end of each day.
Many thanks for your support and much appreciated help!
Mrs Toms
This week we are learning all about the story of ‘Supertato’, the amazing potato who works hard to protect everyone from the EVIL PEAS!
Today we made our very own Supertato using some items that would have ended up in landfill or the ocean! These items included stretchy rubber (makes a great mask!), plastic netting and plastic sheeting. We used recycled paper to make the white dots for the eyes (thanks to our trusty hole punch!) and assembled it all together with a little help from the adults and their hot glue guns.
We will use the (super) potatoes in our speaking and listening, role play and writing activities!
Here are just a few of our amazing potatoes!
Mrs Toms x
