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Newsletter – 22nd March 2019
The children have enjoyed having some visitors over the last few weeks to enhance our transport topic. The children listened beautifully to our visitors and enjoyed asking them questions. Thank you to Jimmy and Abigail’s uncle who came to talk to us about being a train driver and to Ethan’s dad for bringing the fire engine with the rest of his crew. The children thoroughly learnt lots. Well done to the Ducklings who have all been super at coming in by themselves each morning. You are all super stars! It is lovely to see the children enthused to want to complete the rainbow challenge activities that are left out each week too! Keep up the good work! The Ducklings are very used to spending time with Romeo, the school therapy dog. This week Mr Powell visited the Little Chicks with Romeo to talk to them all about how and when to approach him and how to keep him safe.
STARS OF THE WEEK Molly Richardson for her super effort to complete class challenges and Mia Hope for super work in guided reading. Arthur Williams for being a super Carleton Green role model and Ethan McVittie for growing in self-confidence. Our Learning The children have continued to enjoy the topic of transport. They have enjoyed reading ‘The Train Ride’ and ‘The Bus is for us!’ stories. Outside they have enjoyed pretending to be train and bus drivers, picking up passengers and taking them on journey. They have also been busy building trains and buses. They have created their own obstacle courses to travel around on the bikes and to see who is the fastest to complete the course! This week they have completed the bus stop challenges, by stopping at each bus stop and completing a different physical challenge, such as 3 star jumps or throwing and catching a ball 5 times! We have also been problem solving how to get a toy bus across a ‘river.’
Little Chicks We have been… - Making trains and writing our names on the carriages - Printing with 3D shapes to make buses and trains - Drawing maps of a train journey or a ride on a bus - Painting pictures of buses and trains and building them in the construction area - Drawing passengers on buses and trains and writing or matching to the correct number - Rolling a dice and counting out that number of passengers to put on the bus
Ducklings We have been… - Investigating how to make a bridge out of playdough and pasta, strong enough to carry a train - Ordering objects such as vehicles according to their length, height and size - Solving some mathematical problems involving sharing and halving - Printing shape train pictures and painting buses
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Using the patterns of the stories we have read to help us to write our own versions In Phonics we have been completed learning all of the phase 3 phonemes/sounds and are now consolidating and reinforcing them by doing lots of reading and writing with them. Keep practising the tricky words and new sounds as we will be ending the term with a phonics assessment to see where they are all up to with securing this knowledge.