Friday 22nd September 2017
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 the weather begins to change! PE on Thursdays All of our teachers are really pleased with how we have begun to get ready for PE. Last week we changed into our full PE kits. 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 45 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. The girls find it tricky to undress with pinafores on, so perhaps skirts may be easier on PE days. Thank you. IPads With Mrs Lees, 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 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 down from 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 have enjoyed creating faces out of different fruit and vegetables at the snack table! 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 which eye and hair colour most and fewest people have in our class.