Christmas has begun in Hedgehog Class! The Year 1 children have started to rehearse the nativity (Reception children will have a song or a dance as part of it - more information to follow!), we have started rehearsing the songs and our classroom hut is slowly turning into an elf workshop. We also went for a frosty wander around the field on Thursday, so everything is feeling very seasonal.
At Forest School we created a hedgehog house in the hope of providing a snuggly home for one over the winter. Several of the children helped with hammering, sawing and camouflaging.
In other learning....
Maths:
The children have been comparing length and height using the terms long, longer, longest; short, shorter, shortest, and tall, taller, tallest. This is an easy one to practice at home! You could build some towers, compare heights of family members, make playdough snakes and compare them.... any opportunity to use the language is great.
The children also began to learn how to measure an object using cubes, and the importance of starting and ending the measurement in the correct place. Year 1 will move on to using a ruler to measure in cm next week. With Year R, the important part of this is in using the language of measurement, as above.
Phonics:
Reception have learnt two new sounds: w and y.
If you want to practice these at home, there is a word maze here.
The children are all in different places with their high frequency word reading. In class we have learnt the first five words from the orange list and will look at the next five words before Christmas.
Year 1 did some more work on the short vowel sound spelling rules (some letters are doubled after a short vowel) to consolidate them. To practice these, you could play Blankety-Blank (we did this in class and the children enjoyed it). You will find it here.
Have a good week end!
From Miss Nash
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