Early Years

What a fantastic end to the Spring Term we had! We were all so excited about learning and celebrating the Chinese New Year. We tried Chinese food, role-played our own restaurant, wrote in Chinese and learnt how to say Happy New Year In Chinese.  You’ve all worked so hard this half term and it has been lovely to see you all progress in all areas of your learning.  When you come back we will begin with some traditional tales. We will huff and puff till our houses blow down! 

Welcome back Early Years!  We started the year with a surprise message from our school caretaker. There had been many bear prints seen over the Christmas holiday and Early Years wanted to take on the responsibility  to investigate. We all put our coats and wellies on and set out for our Bear Hunt. We found 20 bear prints, leading us to the forest. Stumble Trip, Stumble Trip!  All of the children have dived into the learning opportunity with the story ‘Bear Hunt’. We have started to create our own story maps and are able to re-tell it using some new actions.

Early Years couldn’t wait any longer to get in the Christmas spirit! We have decorated our class tree, learnt our Christmas songs, read the Christmas story and set up Santa’s Workshop. We have created our own story map for the nativity and learnt some new story actions. Some children couldn’t wait to get busy in the creative area to make their own characters for our Nativity scene! Reception have been busy in phonics this week and have started learning the phase 3 digraph, qu, sh and ch.  I wonder if you can see any items in your house that start with the ch sound? This weeks tricky words are he, she, me, be and we. We can’t wait to see you at our tea party on Friday December 7th  at 2.45pm.

This week we had an unexpected visitor in our classroom and Receptions first class trip. On Monday morning the children found some large white foot prints and some space stories and props left on our stage. The children came  up with many ideas on who it was but the majority of the class decided it was an astronaut. They believed the white marks was the moon dust of the astronauts boots. Looking forward to learn about our new topic space! Reception’s first school trip was a big success and all children had lots of fun! The librarians commented on our good manners and wonderful behaviour. Reception have now started phase 3 sounds- j, v, w and x and learnt new tricky word ‘he’.

Early Years have been very busy this first week back! We have been learning about the festival Diwali! We have been making Rangol and Mehndi patterns, Diwali cards, clay diva lamps and learnt  the Rama and Sita story. Home Learning for Autumn 2 will be sent home today.  Please practise the tricky words learnt so far. (The, I, go, to, no)

We were very lucky to have the author Faustin Charles visit us at Bedmond Academy. Early Years sat beautifully while listening to the story ‘The Selfish Crocodile’.

Early Years were shocked to come into school and find 3 bowls of porridge left  in our tray. They have concluded that it is Goldilocks and The Three Bears visiting our school late at night. We have been ordering the different size bowls, spoons and chairs. We also measured how tall we think Daddy Bear could be and used the correct vocabulary to describe different heights. (shortest and tallest)   We decided to make posters around school to warn others of our unexpected visitors. Please let us know if you see anything else peculiar going on this week! In phonics we have now learnt all the sounds below.  s a t p i n g o c k e We also enjoyed learning our first word I. 

We have been very busy this week in Early Years. Together we have had so much fun learning our class story, using our story actions. We also made our own stage in the classroom for the children perform the story. Children, please re-tell your grown ups the story of the little boy who wanted a friend. This week the children have loved playing in the library, using the story shelves to act out their own versions of a story.  In Maths we have been learning about 2D shapes. We created our own shape 'Borris' robots, sorted shapes into groups and went outside to mark-make our own shapes on the playground. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be talking and learning about Autumn in Early Years. We would appreciate if parents could donate a pumpkin to us, this will be used for our outside messy play and sensory topic table.   Have a lovely weekend!

Last week we loved being part of Bedmond week and celebrating our local village. We explored what places we recognised around the village; tin church, park, shops and village hall. We then created our own maps using different coloured shapes to represent different things. We then welcomed Year 5/6 pupils to come and teach us about what they learnt when visiting the famous church. We then went on to create our own art work on the church, using our own cutting and sticking skills.  Phonic sounds this week, i n m and d. 

In Early Years we have been talking about what makes us feel good on the inside. We created our own recipe for feeling magnificent. Here are some of the children’s ideas: Caring Kindness Hopes Love Sharing Dream Big Respect We set up a potion station outside in the sunshine. We stirred, mixed and used pipettes to transfer the liquid into potion bottles. We created a display in the dining hall, sharing our learning with the school. Last week we learnt phonic sounds; s a t p I wonder if the children could spot items around the house starting with these letters?

WOW Early Years! We all can't believe how quickly the children in Early Years have settled into their new environment and school routines. We have been very busy learning the new areas of our classroom and getting to know each other. During circle time we shared with each other all about our families and our interests are. Our class puppet 'Poppy the Bunny' has been teaching us how to tidy our resources away during tidy up time. We all went on a class walk around the school, look at how great we are at lining up! We cant stop singing our new class song 'Herman the Worm'. 

Welcome to Early Years' blog page! We are so excited to be launching these this year so that we can keep you in the loop on what we are learning in class.  There is no set time that we will be uploading so please check back regularly or ask your child if we have added anything that day. We will not be using names or faces following the new GDPR rule, we ask that if you comment please do not use children's names either. It would be fantastic if you could comment on a post and give us some feedback, however, please keep things positive and encouraging as we share these posts with the children in class. (P osts go through admin before being published so it can take some time to appear!) Early Years look forward to sharing their new academic year with you ツ