Ducklings Newsletter 22nd May

Friday 22nd May 2015 Our News!

It was lovely to see so many of you at both of the class assemblies. The children were amazing, so full of confidence and knew so many dinosaur facts and songs.

The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about Dinosaurs they have used their super writing skills to make some excellent information books, with labels, illustrations, captions and some children have even put a blurb on the back cover! Mrs McGrath has enjoyed reading some of them!

We have also been reading ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ by Michael Rosen. The children have loved retelling the story, with actions and sound effects. They have written lists of what they would like to take with them if they were going to be explorers and go on a bear hunt of their own.

In Mathematics we have been recapping over 2D and 3D shapes. We have used them to make symmetrical patterns, sort according to different criteria, build dinosaur models and make dinosaur pictures. We are definitely shape experts now!

In PE we have enjoyed going on our own bear hunts climbing over, going under, balancing across and moving in different ways around obstacles.

STARS OF THE WEEK Isabella Mercer for showing lots of confidence and Sophie Stenton for super writing.

Well done to our Mathematicians of the half term Leo Tough and Jordan Clapp and our Star Writers Callen Ormand and Lexi Nelson Our next newsletter will be on Friday 12th June and will give details about all the fun activities we have planned for the next few weeks.

Any questions please don’t hesitate to ring, email or come and see us.

Staff email: Mrs Claydon l.claydon@carletongreen.lancs.sch.uk Mrs Catterall m.catterall@carletongreen.lancs.sch.uk

OUR LEARNING

More Bears!!!

The children have loved learning about the bear hunt and are very keen to continue with this so we will be going on our own bear hunts and reading lots more stories with bears in, such as ‘This is the Bear and the Picnic Lunch’ and the traditional tale of ‘Goldilocks and the three bears.’

The children will also have the chance to write their own stories.

We hope to make our own sandwiches and have our very own teddy bears’ picnic.

In Mathematics we will continue to use the bear theme to explore positional language by describing where the bear is hiding using vocabulary such as behind, above, beside, below, opposite and so on.

The children will also continue with their work on measures by ordering the bears by size and weight and exploring capacity in different ways such as which bear’s bowl can hold the most porridge!

We will need to paint our binoculars, that we have made, ready to go on our bear hunts. We will enjoy learning and performing some bear songs and no doubt make lots of bear themed crafts in the creative area!

Our PE lessons this half term will first of all concentrate on developing our skills for Sports Day. We will be practising all the skills we need for our races and deciding which ones we want to take part in.

After that we will be following the theme of “Growth” and reading Jack and the Beanstalk and the Enormous Turnip. We will be using these stories as a starting point for some creative movement lessons during which we will explore moving our bodies in different ways to music working independently, with partners and in small groups. Alongside this during PE time and outside we will continue developing and practising our hopping, skipping, jumping and running using our spatial awareness to make sure we look where we are going and learn how to look for the space to run to. We will also be develop our underarm throw to become more accurate at aiming, our catching skills to catch from different heights and distances, our kicking skills to develop the accuracy, speed and force of our kicks.

Our fine motor control will develop our letter formation skills so we can accurately form our letters with increasing speed before we move to Year One. Those of us that are able to will continue to develop our letter joining so that we can use this independently in our everyday writing.

REMINDERS Reading Please try to read a little every night and sign when they have read with you.

Thank you.

Junk Please send in tubes e.g. kitchen rolls for making binoculars with.

Bring a Bear!

Bring in a bear to act out your own bear hunt with!

Do you have any rucksacks or other items which would be good for going on a bear hunt?

We might need a net to catch it!

Dates School Half-Term Closure Re-opens Tuesday 2nd June at 8.50am

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Healthy Living Week June – Healthy eating/Healthy Mind Activities 9th June – Sponsored Fitness for Nepal 10th June – Scooter Day 11th June – Sports’ Day 1pm

18th June - Fathers’ Day Film Night 19th June – Non-uniform Day (Bring an item for the Summer Fair) 22nd June – Our Duck eggs arrive.

26th June - Summer Fai.r 330-7.00pm Non-Uniform Day

TALK HOMEWORK Talk for Numbers Practise sharing. Have a teddy bear’s picnic and share out the plates, cups, food, etc.

How many altogether? How many does each bear have?

Hide your bear! Use position words to describe where it is hiding, for e.g. on, above, under, in between.

In the bath find which containers hold the most or least water, use words such as empty, full, half-full Do some baking together and fill measuring cups and jugs. www.iboard.co.uk www.ictgames.com/numeracy Talk for Reading and Writing Practise the new (and old) sounds and tricky words sent home.

Read every night.

Practise writing letters correctly with paint, chalk or with sticks in the sand or mud.

Share bear stories together.

Write your own little bear adventure stories. www.phonicsplay.co.uk Phase 3 and 4 www.ictgames.com/literacy TALK FOR TOPIC Can you find out some information about bears?

Bring in some facts to share with the class.

How many different types of bear can you name?

Draw or paint a bear hunt picture or your favourite kind of bear.

Make bear shaped biscuits together and take a photograph!

Plan a teddy bears’ picnic to have in your garden. www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies Talk about everything!

Have fun!