Hello Hedgehogs and Hedgehog Parents,
The big news of the week is that...
the Hedgehog marble jar is full!
You may or may not have heard about our marble jar. Every time the children work as a team to do a job well, an adult puts some marbles in their jar. It might be for excellent tidying up, really good carpet manners, super handwriting, interesting learning or following instructions. Or, it might be for something else! The marble jar is all about children working together and everyone playing their part.
And now it is full, which means the children get a special treat. Many suggestions were put forward - some more plausible than others - but in the end the children have voted for an afternoon movie, hot chocolate and pop corn.
A Gruffalo.
Percy approached the park keepers with a puzzle this week. He'd been doing the rounds of the park and checking up on the animals when he spotted something... unusual. He asked the park keepers whether they could help. Luckily, being the animal experts that they are, the park keepers quickly identified the creature to be... a gruffalo! Quickly, they began making plans for what to do about the gruffalo and decided, to begin with, they should catch it.
We will let you know how we get on.
Baking and a walk.
On Thursday the children spent a happy morning baking ready for our Children in Need cake sale. The Year 1 children then made a poster (with the help of a few keen Reception children) which they were very proud of. Later that day, for our Forest School session we all went out for a walk to see how the seasons were changing. At the end of the walk I asked the children what their favourite part had been. Most of the children said they loved running down the hill!
Maths this week.
Reception children have been subitising to 2,3 and 4 this week and looking at the composition of 4. If you want to practise this, find four toys, ask your child to close their eyes and hide some. Challenge them to work out how many you have hidden! Fingers are good for this - if they hold up 4 fingers, count the toys they can see and put that number of fingers down, however many fingers are left is the answer.
Year 1 children have finished their work on subtraction and have started to learn about positional language (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th).
To practice this, watch this clip of a snail race, then use this image to talk about where the snails are coming in the race.
They have also been revisiting number bonds to 6.
Phonics this week.
Reception children: We have been doing a lot of letter formation, work on initial sounds and word building this week.
We have now looked at: s a t p i n m d g o c k e u r h.
For the next couple of weeks we will be focussing on letter formation, intial sounds, word building for those children that are ready, and writing some words as well using these sounds. To help at home, please help your child to spot these sounds in their reading books.
Year 1 children:
Due to the various events of this busy week the Year 1 children's 'oi and oy' spelling challenge will take place on Monday. Then the following Friday, it will be 'ow' and 'ou' (as in cow, town, brown, house, mouse). Here is the spelling challenge list - as usual, please try to learn some of the green words!
I hope you all have a good weekend! A few photos of the week are below.
From Mrs Simpson.
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