Monday 19th January 2015
High Street EYFS Weekly Newsletter
Our topic is ‘Traditional Tales’ (The Gingerbread Man, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks
and the Three Bears).
What are we doing this week?
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Listening to the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’.
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Acting out the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ using Pie Corbett story actions.
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Making models of houses linked to the story (brick, straw or sticks).
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Phonics – Blending sounds to read words and simple sentences.
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Maths – Investigating capacity using the water tray (outdoor play).
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Letter formation/number formation practise and writing our names using the correct letter formation
What can you do at home to support our learning at school?
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Sounds book – daily practise to help your child learn and remember the sounds of the alphabet.
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Sharing your child’s reading book with them. Please write a comment in the reading diary to show that you
have read with your child.
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Read and talk about the story of the ‘The Three Little Pigs’
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Act out the story of the ‘The Three Little Pigs’
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Practical addition using toys, for example, 3 cars + 2 cars = 5 cars. Show your child how to write the
number sentence to match (3 + 2 =5).
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Talk about full, half-full, empty etc.
If your child has been well-behaved at school all week and followed our Golden Rules, a text will be sent home on a
Friday to celebrate your child’s fantastic behaviour.
Thank you for your parent contributions on the ‘Wow I am so impressed’ stars, the children enjoy sharing their
achievements in our circle time sessions. The star cards are added to your child’s Learning Journey as a record of
their achievement.
Staff are available on a Wednesday night after school from 3.15 – 4pm if you would like to talk to us about your
child and need a longer time to talk to us rather than a ‘quick word’ at the gate before or after school.
Snacks – Thank you for sending in a healthy snack (fruit, vegetables, raisins, bread sticks) in a labelled pot. Please
do not send in sugary snacks/biscuits as we are a healthy school. The children eat their snack from home at
morning play (10.30am) with a drink of milk provided by school. The children are given a piece of fruit in the
afternoon (2pm). The children are able to buy toast on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning which costs 20p,
toast and a drink of juice costs 50p.
As the weather is colder and wetter please send your child to school with a warm coat, as part of the EYFS
curriculum we work outside every day. Please make sure that coats are labelled with your child’s name and they
know where to find their name label. Hats, scarves and gloves also need to be labelled as the children often have
the same pair.
Your child will need a medium sized cereal box to make a model of a
house this week, please send it into school by Tuesday 20th January,
many thanks.
Have a great week!
EYFS Staff