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Teaching Team Miss Oliver Mrs Fitzgerald Mrs Paynter
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Support Staff Miss Hardwick Miss Shaw Mrs Gardener Mrs Edwards Miss Draper |
Week beginning: 20th January 2025
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Squirrels Class weekly theme A kite stuck in a tree!
The children were really engaged in the story Stuck by Oliver Jeffers. The boy got his kite stuck in a tree and thought of many ways to get it down, including throwing a rhino into the tree! This week we will have a go at making our own kites which can fly (and hopefully not get stuck in a tree!)
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Owls Class weekly theme Rescue! The children have loved coming up with ideas to save our ‘stuck’ eyeore this week. We will find a range of people and animals who need rescuing this week. Can the children work together to save them?
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Our Learning this week includes:
Literacy - Information coming soon!
Maths - This week, the children will continue to engage with activities that develop their understanding of composition, or the numbers within numbers. A key focus will be on exploring ways to represent numbers using the Hungarian number pattern (die pattern). These key representations will help to underline the ‘5-ness’ of 5, and provide structures that will support exploration of its composition and its relationships with other numbers. The children will secure their understanding of the pairs of numbers that make 5, and then use double dice frames to begin to explore 6 and 7 as numbers that are composed of ‘5 and a bit’.
EAD - This week we will have a music session, exploring the sounds of different instruments and then practising playing them fast/slow and loud/quiet. We will listen carefully to a pattern, and then copy the pattern using our instrument. We will also learn the names of the instruments, and how to care for them. In Child Initiated Play the children will be encouraged to make their own band, and explore the instruments independently.
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Phonics Sounds of the Week |
Poem of the Week |
Word(s) of the Week | Song of the Week |
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ur, ow, oi, ear |
Lets put our mittens on |
stick, join, assemble |
5 Speckled Frogs |
Our termly Class letter is viewable here
What the children say...
In our EYFS unit we plan according to the children's interests. We spend time talking to the children, asking them what they already know and what they would like to find out.
Our weekly themes are led by the children. Each week we share ideas and then pick a theme for the coming week.
Our PE days are:
- Wednesday (am) Squirrels
- Thursday (am) Owls
RE learning
In Religious Education, we will be learning about different celebrations and festivals which link to the heritage of some of the children.
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