Week 9

Hello Parents

Due to the Islamic New Year, we have had to postpone the Parents Open Day until next Saturday 1st November. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused and hope you can all make the new date to discuss your child's progress so far. 

This week we've firmly gotten back into the swing of things and begun the week by introducing the letter C and the number 7.

The children also learnt about  mixing colours and the oval shape.

Theme

As part of our health and safety theme this month, we learnt about how to properly wash our hands to keep them germ-free.

How to wash our hands using soap and water:

Wash wash wash your hands

Make them good and clean

Wash them from the bottom

Wash them from the top

and wash the fingers in between

 

We also put into practice brushing our teeth. The children were asked to bring in their toothbrush  and toothpaste:

 

Getting our teeth nice and clean

 

  The children also made hand print crafts covered in germs:

We watched videos of stories and songs the reinforced the concept of keeping ourselves clean:

 

Literacy

This week we the children were introduced to the letter C, its sound and shape.

Our phonics teacher Miss Mai used flash cards of simple objects beginning with letter C and the Jolly Phonics C song to reinforce the letter's sound.

Note: The children were taught the 'hard c', which is pronounced CK phonetically. They will be introduced to the 'soft c' later during reception.

Jolly phonics C song:

(Children raise their hands and snap fingers together, as if they are playing castanets)

We are clicking castanets 

ck ck ck
We are clicking castanets
ck ck ck
We are clicking castanets...
...clicking castanets
ck ck ck

We also watched a short story video about a giant letter c called Craig:

The children made hand print colouring crayon box crafts:

We made letter C mobiles, that included objects beginning with the letter  which the children got to take home, as wells as C crowns:

The children were also given tracing and colouring sheets and learnt how to shape the letter c out of pipe cleaners.

We finished the week with clown painting (c is for clown):

And Mrs Rehab's Year 6 class kindly came in to read to the children:

Numeracy colours and shape:

The children were introduced to the number 7 this week, along with the oval shape and colour purple.

They learnt how to trace the number 7 and oval shape and were introduced to the concept of same and different things.

Ms Tahani also taught the children how to mix coulours:

 They learnt how to make purple, orange and green.

And learnt 7 colours from the rainbow by making colourful fish using tissue paper:

 

Next week we will be learning the letter K and number 8.

Have a great weekend :)

Week 8

Dear Parents,

We’ve started with a great welcome back from Eid break this half-term with new letters, numbers, shapes and colours to learn. We also welcome a new addition to our team, Miss Mai Mihaimeed, our English Language Coordinator in the Early Years Unit for Unit for both age groups 2-3 and age 3-4. Miss Mai is a British national and holds a BA degree In English language and linguistics (Hons) from the University of Kent in the UK. She also works as an Editor at Sudan Vision daily.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Miss Mai will be working with the age group 3-4, Foundation 1, introducing the letter of the week, using the well-designed programme “Jolly Phonics,” and will support the programmes with hands-on activities in addition to the work sheets. Not only this, but Miss Mai will be working closely with the children on their weekly theme, while the Assistant Teachers support  the activity in their small groups. We hope this reorganisation of duties will be even more effective in developing the language skills of your children.

Week 8 from 13-18 October

Theme

This term we have introduced a new theme for the month, Health and Safety –Keeping ourselves healthy and safe.

This week the children were taught proper dental health.

Teaching young children proper dental hygiene is crucial to promote lifelong healthy habits. It is normal for some children to be unwilling to brush their teeth.

We have taken the chore out of brushing and made it fun by providing and planning exciting lessons, activities and songs to encourage healthy dental hygiene routines.

                                                               Happy and sad teeth

The children carried out an experiment to see what would happen to a tooth if it wasn't brush using an egg, brown paint and a toothbrush. 

Literacy

This week, the children were introduced to the letter N. The children took part in fun activities that reinforced the letter’s sound and shape.

                                                                        N is for Notes

We learnt the Jolly Phonics letter N song:

“Hear the aeroplane nnnnn (the children will spread their arms out mimicking an aeroplane)

Hear the aeroplane nnnnnn

Hear the aeroplane nnnnn

Making lots of noise!"

 The children with Miss Mai

The children were taught how to recognise a small n and capital N as well as how to write a small n using play dough, our white boards and sand. 

How to write a small n: line down, up again, around and down.

We made n for nests and n for night crafts:

The children enjoyed making noodle necklaces and had fun eating delicious noodles for lunch on Saturday. We also made and painted salt dough letter ornaments and went on a hunt for cardboard cutout n's around the centre area.

Numeracy, colours and shapes

The children also learnt all about the number 6, the colour orange and the star shape.

They learnt how to trace the number 6 and made a collage. 

Our head teacher Ms Tahani also taught the children how to sort size by big, bigger and biggest and position words, in/out.

Next week the children will be learning the letter C and number 7 and will be taught about germs and keeping our hands clean.