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 :)