Friday 25th September 2015
Our News! Our Day Everyone is settled during the day and is joining in with all the activities on offer. We are encouraging the children to learn in as many different areas as they can and to try learning somewhere new! Every day we do lots of learning outside. Please remember to send in your child’s wellies, waterproofs or puddle suits to enable them to make the most of the outdoors especially as this lovely weather begins to change! It’s a great help if they have spare socks in their bags too! Thank you! PE on Tuesdays All our teachers are really pleased with how we have begun to get ready for PE. So far we have just put on our pumps and taken off our jumpers, but next week we hope to try putting our full PE kits on! Everyone gets lots of help but it is our target to be able to do it all by ourselves, eventually! Please help us to learn how to do it by letting us practise at home by ourselves too. We need to be able to take our sweatshirts, shirts and trousers or skirts off by ourselves and then put them all back on again. It’s no mean feat with 44 children! We think it will be a good idea to just undo the top few buttons on our shirts so we can take them off over our heads! Anyone that has earrings should remove them on a Tuesday as the teachers are not allowed to do it for us or cover them with plasters. Long hair also needs to be tied back for PE, but ideally for school every day. Thank you. iPads With Mr Vaughan, we have been talking about how to use our class iPads safely and carefully. The children have shown us how responsible they are with these and our new Clever Touch boards. We have been busy! We have been continuing to introduce the children to routines and our behaviour expectations. They are quickly learning to recognise what to do when they hear the ‘tidy up’ music or stopping when the teacher counts to three! We have introduced the children to their Carleton Code Passports where they collect rewards for different examples of positive behaviour. Some children have already gained some rewards. Ask them to show you their passports when you are next in school! The children are also able to earn house points for their different coloured teams. They have painted amazing portraits of themselves and created lovely paper plate faces using different collage materials! Come in and have a look!! We have enjoyed reading the story, ’If you’re happy and you know it.’ This has led us to play lots of different feelings games to get to know each other better and helped us to understand that there are lots of different feelings and how we can deal with them. In Phonics we have been listening carefully to sounds around us, making different sounds and playing ‘I spy,’ listening carefully to the first sounds of objects around us or the first sounds of our names. We have begun to find out about the characters in our reading scheme books, ready for when we bring our books home. In our number time we have enjoyed singing lots of counting rhymes, counting all sorts of things and finding out how old we are and which months our birthdays are in.