No School: A reminder that Friday (November 11) is a staff training day so there will be no school for children on Friday. Monday (14) and Tuesday (15) are also school holidays so there is no school.
- Any photos and videos taken in school of groups of children during the normal school day should only be taken by school staff or with the agreement of school staff. At no point should any images of children at school be shared using social media without the parents’ permission. Thank you for your support.
- If you bring your child to school please can you ensure you arrive on time. It is a vital part of the day for the children to settle and socialise with their friends as well as complete the register and morning routines on time. It is also important to ensure that your child is collected from school promptly at 3:30 as late pick-ups cause problems with ECA’s and children going to BISCAP’s.
- As the weather has now changed, please ensure that your children’s spare clothes in school are suitable for the colder months.
LEARNING THEME: Christmas
THE BIG QUESTION: WHY DO WE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?
Over the past two weeks we have been looking at what a celebration is and investigating lots of different kinds of celebrations. This week we will be thinking about Christmas and and looking at the different ways people celebrate this holiday around the world and where it all came from. This will be followed next week by the preparations for our winter production.
COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE
We will be sharing different versions of the story of Christmas with the children each day to give them an insight into why we celebrate this holiday. After sparking the interest, we will be encouraging the children to talk about, retell and even act out their favourite version of the story of Christmas, drawing on their attention and recall skills as well as their use of full sentences when speaking.
Christmas, celebrate, sharing, baby, angels, shepherds, innkeeper, gifts, presents
Maintains attention, concentrates and sits quietly during appropriate activities.
Able to follow a story without pictures or prompts.
Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations.
We will continue playing some simple phonics games with the children to develop their listening skills.
We will consolidate sounds the children already know. Check inside phonics packs to see if there are any new letters to learn. Here is a link to so some great apps that will support the phonics work we are doing in school for phase two and beyond.
In Maths the children will be working on counting out a set amount of objects from a larger group, for example counting six objects out of a set of ten.This helps the children to understand the value in counting and also the importance of stopping at your desired amount. The children will be encouraged to do this using various materials that interest them.
Count, how many, enough, more, less
Counts out up to six objects from a larger group
Counts objects to 10 and beginning to count beyond 10
THEME: Colours of Autumn
SONG: 颜色桑巴（yanse sangba）
ACTIVITY: Find the colours in the classroom
STORY: 小蓝与小黄 (xiaolan yu xiaohuang)
KEY VOCABULARY: red 红色(hongse), yellow黄色 (huangse), brown 咖啡色 (kafeise), orange橙色(chengse), green绿色(liü se)
De kinderen van Reception zullen deze week hun familiestamboom opstellen. Met de letterkennis die we de voorbije week vergaard hebben zoeken we de woordkaartjes bij onze familie. Met welke letter begint mama, papa, tante...? Wat is de eerste letter van jouw naam?
In `Villa Letterpret`zoeken we voorwerpen met de `oo`van oom.