Year R Squirrels

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Team Squirrel - Mrs Browne

Things to know:

PE is on Thursdays – please come to school in PE kit.

Forest School is on Fridays - please come to school in PE kit.

Children will need a forest school bag containing:

Wellington boots
Waterproof trousers
Coat
Spare socks and spare trousers.

Forest school bags will be returned weekly to be refreshed.

Library day is Thursday. Children can take a book home from our school library weekly. Please return all library books every Thursday for a new one.

Week 7 - Drawing club and enjoying some new bits to play with inside and out!

This week has been quite exciting for Year R as we have had new things arrive throughout the week. We talked about how to keep ourselves and our friends safe when moving some of these large, loose parts in our garden area and had great fun creating all sorts of inventions with the new pipes, tubing and tyres. We alos completed another drawing club, and this time our book was Room on the Broom, a classic read which the children love! We were drawing new super-fast broomsticks and choosing which animals we would take with us on our broomstick. The children always look forward to Drawing Club and cannot wait for the next one - just look at some of their imaginative creations below!

After half term:

Please can we have a photo of your family. Our topic is 'all about me' so we can see who is special in our lives and who we live with. This can be emailed to the school office or through hard copy on the Monday we are back at school. Please can you name who is in the photo. :) Thank you for your support.

Reading wallets will start to come home Monday. Please can they be in school every day. Thank you.

Please find attached at the bottom of this page the presentation to the Meet the Teacher last week for those who couldn't make it.

Thank you for a brilliant first term! I cannot wait for the next but please do have a restful half term. Love Mrs Browne x

Week six - Drawing Club and People Project

We have put a pause on our sound a day to try something new! We started Drawing Club! We focused on the book 'Not Now Bernard', learnt new language and used our creativity to draw. First we drew a monster who ate up Bernard's Mum and Dad, Next we drew Bernard's house, then we drew all the things the monster ate to take the taste away from eating up Bernard. Finally, we drew where the monster came from before being in Bernard's garden. The children LOVED it! See if they can tell you our 4 new words we learnt this week to support our story (be warned, there may be shouting and actions involved!!) The words were: gobble, destroy, ignore and fiercesome.

For our People Project this term we learnt about Queen Elizabeth II. We talked about who she was, what she did and learnt who her family were and why they are significant people. To support this, we reminded ourselves of the Union Jack flag and used the colours red, white and blue to create some 'pop art' of our late Queen. They look fantastic!

Week five - Letters p, q, r, s, t

This week included penguin drawing, queen cutting, rocket building, snake making and tree hugging in forest school! We have been practising out cutting skills and learning our shapes when building rockets. The children then turned them into kites and launched them off into space.

In PE, the children have been playing team-building games such as Robin Hood. They had to collect a beanbag one at a time in their teams, and keep going until the timer runs out. The aim of the game is to collect the largest number of beanbags. The children were cheering each other on, communicating whose go it was, and showed great competitiveness when playing. Go Team Squirrels!

Week four - Letters k, l, m, n, o

This week has been full of creative fun! We have made our own kites and learnt that the longer the string, the less it flies. Also, that if the children used the art straws, it made them stronger and flies for longer in the wind. For letter 'l' we created our own lunch boxes and drew what would make it a healthy lunch box, but also added what would be our favourite 'little treat'. Next, we created our own moon pictures, drew detail on castles and decorated crowns fit for a king. For letter 'm' we used marbles and paint to mix the colours and create some great patterns. The children said the patterns reminded them of space. In forest school we were looking for nests and created our own using the natural resources around us. For letter 'o' we painted owls with a fork using a forward scraping movement to create a feather effect.

Week three - Letters f, g, h, i, j

We are in full swing, following the school routines and completing our morning jobs independently. We have begun recognising our names amongst others and even practised writing them, ensuring we start on the top left of our whiteboards and write all the letters we see in order. We are teaching the children that our names have a capital letter at the beginning and all the rest are lowercase letters.

We have been singing lots of number songs and alphabet songs along with our favourite nursery rhymes. To support our 'letter a day' this week, we coloured in different flags and talked about the Union Jack and St George's flag, sharing what they represent. Many children recognised other flags too, such as the Welsh flag! We have also painted horse hand prints, created our own gardens using different materials and made jellyfish using beautiful ribbons and a collage of shiny, coloured paper.

A date for your diary: On Friday 17th October, there will be a 'meet the teacher', which is a chance for us to get together after a few weeks in school and I will share with you what will happen next in terms of reading and school and home expectations. It will take place at 2:40pm in the school hall. Hope to see you all there!

Week two - Letter a day.. A - E

This week, we are in full swing and very keen to learn... We have played lots of missing initial sound games, ordering numbers and many counting games. For the rest of this term we will be learning (very lightly) a letter a day. This week has been letters 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' and 'e'. We have been finding words with the letters in them and also kept ourselves busy attempting to write them with pens, paints, blocks and even water! For the letter 'a' we made animal masks and printed apples with paints. For letter 'b' we printed bugs and built with blocks. For letter 'c' we practised our cutting skills and counted with caterpillars. For the letter 'd', we completed drawings of dinosaurs and for letter 'e' we coloured in pictures of the earth learning where the sea and land is and created eggs with different patterns.

Week one - Our first week... and it has been fabulous!

I am so, so proud of all the children this week taking their first week at school in their stride! We have been busy learning new routines, school and classroom rules, finding where everything is and we even attended two assemblies with the whole school!

Well done Team Squirrels. Have a good rest this weekend. I look forward to another week together.

Few reminders –

All home toys to stay at home and not be brought to school.

Please ensure all uniform is named.

If you want to bring in a snack for your child, please ensure it is one piece of fruit. We have snack at 10:15am daily where we also provide a piece of fruit and milk. There is no afternoon snack.

Thank you so much!