Religious Education

The children will thinking about the topic ‘Welcome’. The children will be thinking about how we are welcomed into God’s family at baptism. We will also think of ways we can welcome each other when we see our family and friends. We have also been learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali. The children have made their own diva lamps and we also made Rangoli patterns with coloured rice

 Our next topic will be Birthdays. As we approach Christmas we will be learning about the Christmas story and  thinking about how we can prepare for the birth of baby Jesus.   Please encourage your child to make the sign of the cross and follow the Catholic Values that they are learning about.

Commination, Language and Literacy

We are now starting our ‘Dinosaur Roar’ topic. The children will be sharing the story and talking about the different dinosaurs in the story.  Hopefully the children will be able to help tell the story when they become familiar with it.  It is great to share stories with your child at home whenever possible as it helps with their language, vocabulary and imagination.  We will also continue to sing the Nursery rhymes the children learnt in our last topic as it is important children sing and learn nursery rhymes as part of their reading and writing journey. They need to be able to hear the rhyme in the songs and distinguish between the different sounds in rhymes.

Please click on the link below to listen along to the story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MMiiXlFNZA

Phonics

We follow Little Wandle Letters and Sounds at this school. In order of the children to become fluent reader and writer by the time they leave Year 2, in nursery we need to ensure we ebbed the foundations of phonics. This half term we will be beginning to hear and say the first sound in words e.g S for snake, sit and sun. We will be learning the sounds  s, a, t, p, i, n this half term. The children will be learning one sound each week and doing activities and games to support this.

Maths

We are now learning the numbers up to 3. The children will be learning about the amount and matching it to the number. This will be done by a variety of activities and also number songs.