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This week our big idea questions are:
What do robots do?
What technology do we use at home?
We will be looking at different robots and machines and talking about how clever they are!
Including hoover robots, robots that can build cars and machines in factories that make things that we use every day.
We will be sharing this story with the children:
Along with the sequel... No Bot-The Robot's New Bottom!
We will be moving and grooving to these vintage Barney tunes:
Along with making our own 2D shape robots and of course doing lots of improvised robot dancing!
(F2) We are SO PROUD of how brilliantly the children are doing with their phonics. We are getting extra speedy with our sounds and trying really hard to form them correctly. We are starting to blend sounds together to read words! Keep up the super work Little Adventurers!
The sounds we will be learning to read and write this week are:
This week the 'big idea' questions are:
Where do rockets go?
What is an astronaut?
We will be sharing the brilliant story 'Look up'... All about a little girl called Rocket who wants to be the greatest astronaut, star-catcher and space-traveller that ever lived, just like Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space.
We will be talking about what we would pack to go on a space adventure... Just like baby bear in one of our favourite stories 'Whatever Next'...
We will be getting our groove on to these songs:
As well as helping us to learn the names of the planets in our solar system:
The children are doing SO WELL with their phonics. Thank you for all of your support at home with this and practising those speedy sounds. Using the sounds the children know well, you could make some CVC words and see if the children can say the sounds and read the word (e.g mat, sad, pin). When we do this in school, we say 'Fred Talk, read the word'. Here is a video of how we teach reading (blending) in Reception.
The sounds we will be learning to read and write this week are:
We are continuing our 'Marvellous Machines' topic by looking at transport that travels in the air and on water. We will be looking at aeroplanes, creating our own role-play plane and finding out who Amelia Earhart is (ask us at home!). We will be looking at the wonderful underwater machine that is a submarine as well as making our own boats and testing out if they float or sink in our water tray.
We will be sharing this fabulous story all about Emma Jane's Aeroplane and how she travels around the world πβοΈ:
We will be singing and practising some jazzy yoga moves to this song with lots of different transport:
Check out this Cbeebies episode to have a look at lots of marvellous flying machines!
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(F2) This week we will be learning to read and write these sounds...
This week, the question we will be exploring is:
We will be talking about all the vehicles we see with wheels... Such as vans, lorries, cars, motorbikes, emergency vehicles etc. See what you can spot when out and about!
We will be sharing this brilliant story: You can't take an Elephant on the Bus. Have a listen at home:
We will also be singing and learning the makaton signs for the song 'The Wheels on the Bus'... We will also be making up our own version of the song with the vehicles we find out about... E.g tractor, car, van, lorry.
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Here are some activity ideas you could try at home linked to out topic:
The F2's have totally blown us away in their RWI sessions last week! Hopefully they are impressing you with their speedy sounds at home!
This week we will be learning to read and write these sounds:
We will learn a sound each day and the new sound cards will be put into book bags to practise at home. The children could always have a go at the letter formation too, if they are feeling extra clever! Saying the handwriting saying as they write (e.g. i - down the body, dot for the head). This doesn't have to be using pen and paper.... It could be chalking outside, drawing in bubbles in the bath, using paintbrushes & water, sticks in the mud... The possibilities are endless!
What a wonderful first week we have had! We are so proud of all the children and how well they have settled into routines. Well done Little Adventurers!
This week we will be sharing the story 'The Colour Monster'. We will be talking about emotions and feelings and how these can change throughout the day. Have a listen to the story below:
Sometimes, the colour monster turns all different colours when his feelings are mixed up. We will be making our own colour monsters, talking about what we can do to help when we feel a certain way. We'll also be colour mixing and experimenting with what colours we can make using red, blue and yellow.
Our weekly song will be 'If you're happy, and you know it'
In F2, we will be starting our Read, Write, Inc sessions... We will be learning a sound a day and practising forming the letters correctly using the sayings to help us (e.g. round the apple, down the leaf).
Over the next few weeks, we will be beginning to blend the sounds we know to read words. We will be playing lots of 'Fred Talk' games to help with this tricky blending process. At home, you could play Fred Talk games or games like 'I spy' to help children distinguish the initial sound in words.
We will send the sounds the children have been learning home (please keep these safe in their book bags, we will add to them each week until you have a full set). You can practise these speedy sounds, holding the cards up and encouraging your child to say the sound. Here's a video of the pure sounds.
Remember to write in your child's reading diary each time you practise 'speedy sounds'... Helping your child get on their way to their bronze reading award!
Here are the sounds we will be learning this week:
Thank you for your continued support π
Our focus for the next couple of weeks, to help settle the children into foundation, will be 'Marvellous Me' ... We will getting to know your wonderful children, sharing colour monster stories and talking about our families and what we like doing with them.
If you could send a family photo on tapestry, we are hoping to use them to create a display in the classroom. The children will be making and decorating a paper frame for their family photoπ
After that, we will be getting started with our 'Marvellous Machines' topic... Your child will learn about technology that is part of their daily lives. We will bring some 'marvellous machines' to the classroom to show the children how they help us/what they do (for example... Making toast with a toaster, smoothies with a blender and popcorn in the microwave).
We will also be exploring materials, describing what they feel like and experimenting with things that are magnetic!
Some ideas you could try at home to help bring our topic to life...
A new school year and a new class name... This year the children in EYFS (F1 and F2) will be known as 'Little Adventurers'. We think EYFS is an endless adventure, and we are going to have so much fun!
We are so excited to welcome you into school, we hope you have all had a wonderful summer, and we can't wait to hear all about it! If you get chance, remember to upload some photos on to tapestry, so the children can share these with their friends next week. Huge thank you if you have already done this.
(F2 Parents) We've added the 'Welcome to Reception' presentation as a PDF below, just incase you missed our meeting or want a reminder of the information shared. Hopefully everyone received their goody bags! (If not, we have some here and will hand them out this week).
If you have any burning questions, add these to tapestry, and we will try our best to get back to you before we are back.
We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 3rd September, bright-eyed and bushy tailed at 8:55am π (unless you have agreed a different start date/time with Mrs Boon/EYFS Staff).
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