Yellow

This is the Yellow class web page. Our teacher is Mrs Lane. Our web page shows what we are learning, class news and some useful links.

In class we we are learning...

Weekly Theme - Science Week - Pirates

As part of science week (starting the first week back after half term) we are going to be doing a theme on Pirates. We will be reading the story of Peter Pan and doing role-play, retelling of the story and writing activities based around this. We will make our classroom role-play area into a pirate ship and make lots of piratey resources to go in the ship and the children will also make resources they can wear. We will go on a treasure hunt use the outside area to support role-play and imaginative play. 

We will also be doing science activities related to pirates, which will include making ships and seeing if they float. 

If your child has any pirate related items that you wouldn't mind bringing into school for us to use e.g. clothes, ships, little figures, books etc. please name them and send them in on Monday. 

Literacy

The following websites will support your child with segmenting and blending sounds at home:

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishA1.htm

http://demo.iboard.co.uk/curriculum.htm#32635

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html#cvcmaker

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html#ww

Numeracy

Numeracy will also be related to pirates. We will make patterned jewellery, adding and taking away through searching for treasure, 2d and 3d shaped treasure and many problem solving activities. 

Week beginning 23rd January - Chinese New Year 

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Last week was Chinese New Year and we learnt about this celebration through a range of activities. We made our own class information book with facts that we have found out throughout the week. On Tuesday we walked to Tesco and bought ingredients for a Chinese stir fry, we then cut up the vegetables and these were fried in a wok to make a chinese stir fry. We ate the stir fry with chop sticks - it was delicious!! We have also be doing lots of creative activities to do with Chinese New Year like making dragons, recreating chinese art, making flags, chinese dancing and music playing, tai chi and we will also wrote some chinese numbers, writing and made pictures with tangrams.

Useful Websites

http://www.schooljotter.com/showpage.php?id=45834  This website has links to games that are specifically aimed at children in the Foundation Stage in a range of curriculum areas including Literacy and Phonics, Numeracy and Knowledge and Understanding.

http://www.iboard.co.uk/curriculum.htm#earlyYears  This website has games and activities supporting the following areas of the curriculum:  Communication, Language and Literacy, Creative Development, Knowledge and Understanding of the World and  Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/   This website has lots of stories to read and watch, games to play, songs to listen to, resources and ideas for making and colouring and alphablock games (supporting children's phonetic knowledge).

Recent Letters

Changes to Show and Tell - 6th Jan 2012 -  This letter went home on Friday 6th informing you of how Show and Tell will work as of the week beginning 9th Januray.

Useful Documents - Please click on the links below to access some useful information.

Reading Powerpoint - We held a information evening during Term 1 about how we teach your child to read and write and how you can support your child at home. There is also other useful information about how we do things in the Foundation Stage which may answer any questions you have.

Wow Moment Sheet - If your child does something amazing at home that you think we would like to know about e.g. gets a sports badge, rides a two wheeled bike, reads or writes independently, works out a mathematical problem, sustains attention at an activity they normally find hard etc, please fill out a wow slip and send it in to us.

Reading days - Please see the table to find out which day your child will be read with in school. Please make sure your child has their reading book, word box, reading record sheet, maths challenge and plastic wallet with the sight recognition words cards and the umbrella sheet so that we can swap them for new ones. It is also really useful if you could write a comment on the reading record sheet so that we know how your child is getting on at home.