Water, worms and wobbling!
This week, we’ve continued to get to know each other and children are becoming much more confident with each other and their surroundings.
Outside, some of our children were a bit wobbly whilst trying to balance along our wooden balance beams. They worked together to help each other balance and get across safely. After a while, some children noticed that there were some worms around the balance beams. This caused lots of excitement and discussion. We talked about how the worms moved, their different lengths and we enjoyed signing ‘There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden‘. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog (it’s along the play bar) and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.
In the Sunshine room, we’ve introduced a new farm small world area as some children showed an interest in farm animals last week. We’ve heard lots of animal noises in the Sunshine room ever since!
The water area has also been popular again; children are beginning to remember to roll their sleeves up and put aprons on independently.
We’ve noticed that a few children have shown an interest in ‘owls’ so we have incorporated this into our Nursery plans for next week. We’ll also be learning more about Autumn, too. If you go out for a walk, talk about some of the changes that you can see in the trees and try to find some ‘Autumn treasure’. We have a collection of conkers and acorns ready for children to explore in Nursery next week.
Reminders
- If you send grapes in your child’s lunch box, please ensure that you cut them in half/quarters length ways. There’s an NHS video that outlines the importance.
- We still have a few water bottles and coats that don’t have names on. Please make sure that your child’s belongings are named. It is very hard to give out items at the end of the day if they don’t have a name in.
- Children will begin to wear their wellies more as the weather changes. If you could send them to Nursery in shoes with Velcro (NOT laces) that would be very helpful. We’re working on their independence, encouraging children to put on their own shoes and coats. Please work with us and continue this at home as well.
- Thank you to everyone who is being prompt for drop off and collection. Please ensure that you arrive at the correct time for your child’s group.
5/6B Certificate Celebration
Here are our certificate winners for this week. Welcome to the door of fame!
For great living and learning skills…
Joe – You always listen and respond to others appropriately. Your listening skills are fantastic and you are a fantastic role model for our living and learning statement this week. Well done, Joe!
For sport and physical activity…
Nathan – Your enthusiasm and determination in PE is something we should all work towards. Keep up the good attitude, Nathan!
For great learning…
Grace – Throughout our subtraction learning, you have shown brilliant resilience. You began with being quite unsure of this learning, to being a very confident, active and responsive learner – your hand is always up! Great work, Grace!
Super Cereal Homework 5/6S
I’ve been blown away this week by the amazing homework that the children have created – they’ve certainly got their creative juices flowing. They have obviously enjoyed making and tasting their own cereal recipes – I got very hungry looking at all the photos. Thank you to all the parents for sending the homework via email – it’s great to know that you’re supporting the children with their learning at home. It’s been an absolute pleasure to do homework review today. Well done parents and children!
5/6 S Certificate Celebration
Year 5/6 S have had another fabulous week. We have been completing our cereal boxes, sorting and classifying sweets and even doing PE in the pouring rain!
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
Dasha- you have challenged yourself to be an active learner and you join in well in all lessons now.
For sport and physical activity…
Lucy- you demonstrated enthusiasm and skill in PE this week and you helped others when they needed it – thank you.
For living and learning…
Charlie G- you are a great role model in my class and you show respect to all your peers and adults.
Well done everyone!
Celebration certificates
We’ve had an other great week. Then children have responded fantastically to lessons via Zoom!
As we can’t have our usual celebration assembly on a Friday at the moment, we will be posting the certificate winners on here each week for each class.
For great learning…
Rudi – for great learning in all lessons this week, showing good concentration.
For sport and physical activity…
Marianne – for listening to and following instructions during PE. Well done!
For living and learning…
Stanley – for showing resilience when learning how to use scissors accurately.
GOLD STAR
Ben – for settling in so well to Year 2. You are a little superstar!
Homework: make your own cereal
The Year 5/6 staff are entirely impressed with the creative homework attempts this week. Kellogg’s and Nestle will be on the phone shortly.
All About Colour
We have started a new art topic, linked to our booked Here We Are.
We’ve been learning about the basics of the colour wheel and have discovered Primary, Secondary and Complementary colours.
Here are some pictures of our designs:
Sweet Science!
Year 5/6 have been creating their own classification keys this week about sweets. They generated questions based on the similarities and differences between the different types of sweets. The concept of a classification key came from Carl Linnaeus, who created a system of classifying plants and animals, called Systema Naturae. He put them into the groups that are still used today. He classified things according to their similarities and differences.
Home Is Where The Heart Is
Reception have really enjoyed using the home corner to develop their imagination and confidence based on their own family experiences.
We would like to enhance our home corner with real family photos to show how all families are different and how we are all unique.
If you would like to send a photo to be used within our classroom, email a family photo to scholesf2@spherefederation.org
PE in Reception….
A quick reminder that from this week, PE sessions for both Sunshine and Rainbow Class will take place on a Wednesday and Friday. Please send your child to school in their PE clothes on these days.
Thank you.