This week's news from Kindergarten
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| Dear Parents,
This week we:
- observed the changes that are taking place with our ladybirds, tadpoles and plants. Our vegetable patch is looking very healthy indeed.
- have seen that our caterpillars have changed too. They have just turned into chrysalises and are ready to begin their transformation into butterflies.
- played games to work on oral segmenting and blending. I asked the children to collect various objects but only said the object using sound talk. For example, can you give me the h-a-t?
- went on a lovely trip to Golders Hill Park. The children were able to use nets to catch minibeasts in the long grass. We found lots of flies and beetles as well as a toad and a very large worm! We walked through the butterfly house and re-enacted the life cycle of a butterfly through dance.
- looked at colours and patterns by making necklaces with a repeating pattern.
- explored the properties of colourful rice, enjoying filling and emptying containers.
- drew some self-portraits so that we could look at similarities and differences between ourselves and others.
- read a tadpole poem and noticed that even more of our tadpoles are growing legs.
- enjoyed meeting with you all on Tuesday to celebrate the wonderful learning that has taken place this year.
Next week we will: - re-tell stories as part of our end of unit assessment about stories. The children will be able to select their favourite story and choose their own way of re-telling it. For example: acting it out, using props, drawing pictures or using puppets.
- continue to look at alliteration by playing games such as I spy, Silly Soup and Bertha's Bus.
- continue to use addition and subtraction in practical contexts.
- visit Mrs. Cook's allotment to learn more about the different flowers, fruits and vegetables that are growing.
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| - We will have a Teddy Bears Picnic on Monday, 4th July. Your child can bring a teddy to school on this day.
- The Holiday Club deadline is approaching. Please ensure that you complete a booking form by 1st July.
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| Have a lovely weekend,
Ms. Tomlin, Mrs. Voica, Mrs. Psaras and Miss Olver
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| This week's news from Reception
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| Dear Parents,
This week we have:
visited Golders Green Park and took part in a workshop about bugs. This included looking for and identifying bugs in the meadow grass. We even found a toad! We went into the butterfly house which enabled us to see hundreds of cocoons like ours in the classroom! painted/drew a picture from the trip to show something we enjoyed and wrote a caption to go with it. re-told the story of the Bad Tempered Ladybird in small groups to assess our storytelling skills. made ladybirds using plasticine. continued to observe the changes in our caterpillars and they grow bigger and make their cocoons. observed the tadpoles as some are now growing back legs! reviewed reading and spelling words with the letter sounds ch,sh,th,ng. solved various maths problems using different strategies and finding different possible solutions - this involved sharing a number of 'gold coins' between a group of story characters. explored different ways a group of items can be sorted and classified using different criteria. This included suggesting our own ways to sort objects. explored number bond addition, finding ways of making a number using two colours of counters. learnt to recognise and read tricky words back and get. learnt about Swedish Midsommer from Alexandra Bernhardsson (Kade's nanny) and made flower head bands.
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| - Deadline for holiday club registration is the 1st July, children will not be able to attend if signed up after this date.
- Trip to Friary park Monday, 27th afternoon.
- Development Tuesday - early school closure 5th July.
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| Have a good weekend!
Mrs. G Weber, Miss C Pitts and Mrs. D Fawbert
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