We are going to be finishing our topic this week and thinking about all of the things we have been learning about sunshine and sunflowers!

The book this week will talk all bout what we see in the summer.  We  are also going to be having a go at talking about or writing a simple sentence about what we see in the summer.

Our sounds of the week are 

w  because we are going to be asking lots of questions this week and so many of the question words start with a w! We will also be learning about the letter y as so many things in the summer are y y yellow!

ee - What can you see!

Our sign for the week for the F1 children is sun!

Two slightly different ways to sign this depending on whether you say sun 

or sunshine

For the F2 children we will be looking at the signing for all of the question words.

The children have been noticing lots of buzzy bees flying around the playground this week so our rhyme of the week is . Singing and rhymes are a great way for the children to express new language and communicate with each other.

Our numbers of the week are 8 or 18 and we will be searching for ways to make these all around the unit and the playgrounds.

For our Understanding of the world We will be looking at these video prompt to remind us of what happens in the summer and also thinking about comparing the different seasons of the year. We will try to remember our snowy and icy walks from a few months ago!

Our story this week is inspired by SPORTS WEEK!!!! The F2 children are taking part in several of the main school activities and having some sporty fun of our own too. The F2' s will then teach the F1 children some of their new skills!

The story  is read by the author himself this week.

Our sign of the week is 'jump'

You can simply jump up and down or you can jump on and off things!

Our phonics is prompted by our story this week we are going to look at the single sound 'j' for jumping Jack. Then we are also going to start looking at the middle short 'u' sound found in simple cvc words like cup, fun.

Visit Evie and dodge and see which objects they choose for the letters 'j' and 'u'?

What objects will they sing about in the alphabet songs? 

During our letter j week and linked to moving around the children are going to be set the challenge of making a j j jack in a box and learning the song that goes with it.

For the children ready for their digraphs we will be reminding ourselves that when 'n' and 'g' are together they make the special friends 'ng' which is often found at the end of action words like jumping and shouting! We will also be learning the special friends 'ou' shout it out!

The F2's are also going to have another look at those tricky words!

Our maths this week is all about sharing things out fairly and into equal groups.

We are looking closely at the different ways we can make the number 7 or 17.

During SPORTS WEEK!!! let's get our bodies moving.

So believe it or not the F2 children have only got 7 weeks left before they move up to their Year 1 status!

Having had such a disrupted time over the last two academic years we are trying to prepare the children as much as we can for the changes they will experience moving from the Early Years Curriculum into the Key Stage 1 curriculum.

One way we are starting to do this is to gently introduce the routine of learning words each week ready for a spelling activity on a Friday. This is something that happens throughout main school  every week.

Rather than giving the youngest children a long list of words to learn we have found that Quizlet offers a more interactive enjoyable way of learning new words. We also always tend to put a symbol or picture alongside the word as children find this a really helpful tool.

Lots of you have signed up already and are using this app but we would really like all parents to sign up as a way of helping their child to prepare for their move to main school.

Visit our Quizlet resource page to request to become a member. https://quizlet.com/class/18137763/

Alternatively, you can click on this invitation link and it should take you to our page ready for signing up.

https://quizlet.com/join/STWSUZScr

Signing up is totally free and just takes a minute. You will need to sign up in order to get all of the different games options that make it more interactive and enjoyable. If you don't sign up you will have only limited availability of the resources.

When you sign up I am sent a message and accept you into the class.

Then you have access to all the resources we have made especially with your children in mind.

Here are a couple of videos of how you use Quizlet on a phone or on a laptop. It can look a little different depending on what device you use.

I will be sending out links each week fo r us to have a game on a Friday. We will all use the quizlet app that day to play the game.

If you have any questions come and have a chat or email me on our class email

meadow-class@keyworth.notts.sch.uk

On Monday the children received a mysterious present from Oberon the King of the Fairies and Magical creatures.

We knew it was from him as he loves to write messages on leaves. On the little leaves he had written a note to each of the children in the F2 bubble to say thank you for writing about his favourite flower - the Sunflower!

He was soooo pleased with their writing that he sent them a gift. This gift contained something else that he loves! Caterpillars. He truly thinks these animals are magical because they change their shape and turn into something else completely. He thought the children would like to see this magic happen right in front of their eyes! He told them a magic word to get them to change -

Met-a-mor-pho-sis!

A process in which something changes completely into something different

We talked about what this word meant and the children have already seen a change in the little caterpillars. They are getting fatter and fatter!

The children have been learning all about the different stages from 

egg 

caterpillar

cocoon  (we have also familiarised the children with the alternative words pupa and chrysalis)

butterfly

Inspired by our gift we have also made a couple of caterpillars that are also going to grow - a pair of grass seed caterpillars. Stuff a pair of old tights with compost and grass seed and see what happens!

We are hoping our caterpillars will look like this!

Take a look at the fabulous teamwork going on below in order to create our hairy caterpillars.

So not only have the F2 children created their own artistic masterpieces inspired by Van Gogh

but they have also produced today and AMAZING performance just for you !

Our stories for the Bank Holiday week (Remember we have Monday off!) The Tiny Seed and a Seed in Need!