Hello Hedgehog Parents,
With staff and children away, the weather not really knowing whether it's spring, summer or winter and the beginnings of May Fair dancing practise... it's been a busy and unusual week!
We started the week by watching Joshua and Jemima's poems that they recorded for last week's homework - they were very proud of themselves!
On Thursday we were quite surprised to see snow falling from the sky! By the afternoon it was warm enough to continue with our Forest School plans, but at various points throughout the session we had to hide from yet another flurry of snow or sleet. Luckily we had a fire going in the cabin and managed to shelter with a story and some spontaneous hot chocolate.
Our mantle story is coming to an end, but we are not there yet. The children continue on their quest to find a woolly mammoth to bring back to 2022. However, their progress was halted when Ewan was gravely injured by a sabre tooth tiger. The children learnt all about natural and man-made materials before determining which natural material would be most suited to making a bandage for him.
Once Ewan had recovered, the children snuck out of the cave and continued their search. They decided a mammoth would most likely be found on the grasslands, or by the lake so that's where they looked.... and they found one! Fast asleep next to the lake. Unfortunately, as they were watching the mammoth, one of the children noticed a nearby hunter-gatherer, spear raised, ready to kill the mammoth. They decided to intervene and stop the hunter-gatherer. The man said he just needed the mammoth for his dinner, and to feed his family. The children then spent some time learning about hunter-gatherers and what alternative foods they could provide for the man and his family, rather than mammoth. They did some wonderful work, creating paper 'clay' bowls filled with berries, nuts, mushrooms, fish and honey.
They also learnt that clay was a natural material and they used clay to make some ice age hunter-gatherer bowls.
In other learning:
Maths:
Reception children have been focussing on '1 more' and '1 less' with numbers up to 10. To practise this you could have a go at this game.
Year 1 children have been learning to measure in centimetres using a ruler. You can practise this simply by measuring things around the house!
Phonics:
Reception children have added 'oi' to their collection of digraphs
Year 1 children have been practising reading alien and real words for the phonics check.
Next week I will be carrying out phonics assessments on all of the children, including a practice phonics check with the Year 1 children to establish what work needs to be done in the summer term as we head towards the statutory Phonics Screening Check.
Your homework this week is to revise all of the sounds we have learnt so far. You can do this by:
* playing 'sounds splat' - Adults write the digraphs all over a large piece of paper. Say a sound and your child has to splat it as quickly as possible. This can also be turned into 'sounds jump' - digraphs are spread all over the floor and children have to jump to the sound as you say it
* playing games on phonicsplay.co.uk - some are free, but it is worth the subscription to play the other games.
Reception digraphs: qu sh ch th ng ai ee igh oa oo ow oi ar or
Year 1 digraphs:
(ai): ay a_e (ee) ea ie e_e (igh) ie i_e (oa) ow oe o_e (oo) ue ew u_e
ir ur er ou oy
Finally, the most important news of the week is that the children have filled up their marble jar again! This means that they have earned a treat - a Parentmail will follow with details.
Have a good weekend
from Mrs Simpson
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