Beech Class Newsletter 13.11.26

Happy Friday!

It’s been a busy week where we have been looking at Diwali, Remembrance and Children in Need.

We started the week looking at the Hindu festival of light ‘Diwali’. The children enjoyed looking at why and how Hindu’s celebrate Diwali and making paper Diva lamps.

Here’s some poppies the children made:

Everyday we talk about the day, date, month and season. We’ve been talking about Autumn changes over the last couple of weeks. This week, we read the story ‘The Leaf Thief’. We created actions to the words:

Disappeared

Swirling

Twirling

Hiding

Change

Crunchy

The children enjoyed drawing the squirrel and ways to catch the leaf thief in drawing club. They’ve also been collecting and using leaves to create leaf pictures and characters from the story. We looked at how to make orange to make the coloured leaves from the story and used pasta as spikes to make a hedgehog.

In phonics, we’ve been looking at v, w, y and x. Each day we have a tricky word or phoneme on our door as our pass code, where the children try to correctly pronounce our new phoneme or read the tricky word whenever they walk into class. This week, we’ve looked at the tricky words: and, as, his and her.

In Maths, we’ve been looking at 4 and 5. The children have been able to find different ways to make 4 and 5. For example, in 4 there is 4 1’s, 2 and 2, 3 and 1.

A reminder to please make sure your child brings in a jumper/cardigan, coat, water bottle and their reading books daily. Listening to your child read and sharing stories with your child really does help them and develops a love of books and reading.

Well done to Alyssa who won the certificate this week. She has been courageous with her learning and has used her phonic knowledge to help her when writing during 'Drawing Club'.

We hope you have a great weekend.

Mrs Fairclough, Mrs Kenny and Miss Hotchkiss