What a great first week back to school. The children have
returned to school raring to go for their last half term in Foundation! This
half term will all be about getting ‘Year 1 ready’
Some of this week’s learning:
Our big question this half term is:
What do we know about our local area?
This week we have started to read stories by Julia
Donaldson, specifically The Snail and the Whale. For a WOW moment we watched
the video as well as read the book. The children then used their oracy skills
to retell the story. We then moved on to exploring rhyming words. We discovered
there are lots of rhyming words in the story we read this week.
In maths we have been exploring shape. We have named and
recognized lots of shapes and also explored rotating and manipulating shapes.
Today we used positional words to describe where shapes were.
We have explored maps and fitting in environmental features,
thinking about whats in our local area and drawing and labeling them, exploring
our new RNLI and beach role play area and so much more!
Its been an amazing week of learning.
Gentle reminder that tomorrow ( 6th June) is an
INSET day.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Foundation Team
End of yet another half term! Wow! One more half term to go!
Its amazing to see the children progress and learn so much. We
continue to be so proud of them!
This week’s blog is about the trip!
The children were an absolute credit to the school and their
adults at home. It was the foundation children’s first trip out at school, and
they were just amazing!
We had a great day exploring so many different animals,
learning so many fun facts and feeding the farm animals was very giggly! The
children were so brave, holding their hands the correct way to feed the
animals!
We had lunch in the jungle barn and the chickens kept coming
in to try and steal the sandwiches!
What an amazing day we had!
We wish you all a wonderful half-term break and look forward
to seeing everyone on Monday 2nd June
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Foundation Team
Some of this week’s learning:
In English this week, the children imitated the story of Mr
Gumpy’s Outing. They decided to change it to Miss Hughes’ Adventure. They
changed the characters in the story to a wolf, crab and turtle and came up with
some amazing verbs. The children then used the story map with Miss Hughes to
write a dictated sentence using their phonic knowledge.
In math’s this week we have explored adding different
numbers together in a variety if way and thinking about ‘How many more’ have
been added to a number!
In phonics children have been reading and writing
polysyllabic words containing adjacent consonants and have been working so hard
to word some tricky words!
In PE this week the children have continued to explore balls
skills, throwing and catching. They have worked with partners to control the ball
and ensure their partner is ready before rolling the ball and then progressing
to throwing and catching.
The children have also been exploring the life cycle of a
butterfly, using their funky fingers to make parts of a flower, making mini
beast jars and so much more!
Gentle reminder that next week is the last week before the
half term and Friday is an INSET.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Foundation Team
Some of this week’s learning:
In English this week, the children have been writing
dictated sentences. We have continued to explore Mr Gumpy’s Outing and the
children have worked really hard to remember a sentence, think about their
phonics and write their sentence. The adults are so impressed.
In maths this week we have been exploring numbers within 20
but have also been exploring taking away within 20. The children have been
using mathematical sentences and are amazing!
During outdoor learning this week, we went on a hunt for
lots of sticks in our field, we then used twine and worked as a team to make
garden stick men! The children were amazing at helping each other to wrap the
twine around the sticks. They then made them even better by using leaves to
decorate their stick men.
The children have also been using water colours to paint
butterflies, making bean plant life cycles , decorating flowers and so much
more!
On Thursday we explored what VE day was and what it means to
so many people. We went outside at 12:00 to hold a 2-minute silence to remember
and then Mr Whittaker played The Last Post on his trumpet. Today all of our
resources were based on VE day ready for our VE Day picnic!
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Foundation Team
Some of this week’s learning:
In English this week, we have continued to explore the story
Mr Gumpy’s Outing. The children have sequenced the story with Miss Hughes and
then individually wrote key words to match pictures from the story. The
children are really progressing with using their phonics to write words.
In maths this week we have been exploring numbers beyond 10
to 20. The children have been building numbers and recognising number patterns.
The children have been amazing at knowing that 12 is 10 and 2 more.
In phonics this week the children have continued to learn
how to read words with adjacent consonants. They are reading and writing so
well and we have seen such progress.
During outdoor learning this week, we learnt all about
shadows. We took lots of toys and paper outside and completed some great shadow
drawings. We made lots of different shadows, drew around Janets shadow and
played chase the shadow!
The children have also been making twirly gardens, designing
flowerpots and making their own gardens.
Always a fun filled learning adventure in Foundation!
Wishing you a wonderful bank holiday weekend
The Foundation Team
What a wonderful first week back at school.
The children have come back so enthusiastic and ready to
explore and learn!
This week in English we have started to read a story called
Mr Gumpy’s Outing. As a fun way to introduce this story, we went on an outing
around the school. We crept through the KS2 corridor and spied on all the
children on our outing, it was so much fun! We learnt the story using actions and a story
map.
In maths this week we have been building numbers greater
than 10. We used egg boxes and pom-poms to help us understand that numbers
greater than ten and less than twenty have a ten and some more. For instance:
15 is 10 and 5 more.
In phonics this week the children have started level 4. We
have been exploring adjacent consonants ( when two consonants make a sound /lk/st/).
The children have been reading so well.
The RNLI came into school this week and told us all about staying safe near water.
On Wednesday we celebrated and explored St Georges Day. The
children were fascinated about the story of St George and the Dragon and it
sparked a very good discussion about whether it was a real story or not! We
completed lots of wonderful activities all about St George.
Today was our Easter Crafternoon, and it was great. It is
wonderful when parents come into class and can share some of the fun we have.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Foundation Team
I cannot believe that we are here at the end of spring term!
What an amazing term we have had! So much amazing fun exploration and learning.
This week we have explored lots of Easter craft and
learning. The Easter Bunny also left us a letter and some magic beans with
instructions that we had to plant them in sand, twinkle our fingers and wait!
When we came into school this morning, Easter lollies had grown! We were
amazed.
We also celebrated Janets birthday early as her birthday will be during the first week of the holidays!
This term has been amazing, and it has been a joy to teach
the children and watch them learn and grow!
We are all looking forward to the summer term and getting
the children year 1 ready!
We wish you all a wonderful Easter break and look forward to
seeing the children on Tuesday 22nd April.
The Foundation Team
Some of this week’s learning adventures!
In English this week the children have been showing Miss
Hughes their hand strength, pencil grip and letter formation by drawing
pictures of their favourite parts of Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have
then been writing small sentences to go with the picture they have drawn using
their phonic knowledge.
In maths this week we have exploring doubles to ten and also
odd and even numbers within ten! The children have been working so hard with
their maths knowledge.
In outdoor learning we wanted to make our own footprints! We
tried to set the activity up outside and oh my goodness the wind!!! So our
outdoor learning became squelchy, squidgy indoor fun instead! We all took our
shoes and socks off and stood in a tray of paint! We then walked down a long
piece of paper to make our class footprints! This was so much fun and the
vocabulary the children used to describe the feeling of the paint on their feet
was spectacular!
In phonics this week we have finished learning all the level
3 phonemes. This week they were /ure/ and /er/ . The children have been
progressing so well with their reading skills. For the next two weeks we review
all of level 3 sounds before we assess the children’s knowledge and
understanding. After Easter we begin level 4, where we explore adjacent consonants
and polysyllabic words containing all of the level 2 and level 3 phonemes!
Another amazing week in Foundation class!
Have a wonderful weekend
The Foundation Team
What a busy week we have had in Foundation! So much learning
and so much fun!
In English this week we have been writing captions to match
pictures from Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have been making huge
amounts of progress with their writing and it has been lovely to see them use
their sound mats and phonics knowledge to write small words.
In math’s this week we have been exploring 9 and 10. We have
looked at combining two groups to make 9 and 10 and how we can represent these
numbers too.
In outdoor learning this week, we made the most wonderful
dinosaur skeletons from twigs and sticks. We continued to work on our teamwork,
and we were in pairs collecting the right size a sticks to make the pictures!
On Tuesday afternoon, we explored why some families
celebrate Pancake Day / Shrove Tuesday. Janet explained to the class that she would
be giving up chocolate for Lent. We then had so much fun making and eating
pancakes in class! They were yummy!
On Wednesday it was St Piran’s Day. In the morning, we had a
wonderful singing assembly as a school and the children sang Cornish songs and
our favourite ‘Looe My Home’ which is an adaptation on ‘Cornwall My Home’. In
the afternoon some parents were able to come to our Crafternoon and it was
amazing. The adults and children made bunting, St Piran’s flags, collaged
flags, crimped playdough pasties and made Cornish patterns! It was lovely!
Thursday was World Book Day, the children looked amazing in
their costumes. Our activities for the day were all based on a book. We
explored: Room on the Broom, Tiddler, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Super Worm
and The Rainbow Fish. Each table had the book and corresponding fun activities
to go with it. The children made puppets, masks, fingerprinted, designed book
covers and drew their favourite characters!
It’s been a super busy week but super amazing too!
Have a wonderful weekend
The Foundation Team
The first week back to school is over already! What a quick
week!
The children have amazed us at how well they come back to
school enthused and ready to learn!
Our big question this half term is: Who Made These
Footprints?
This week we have been exploring the life of Amelia Earhart.
The children explored how she brought her own plane at the age of 22 and called
it the Canary- it was yellow! The children loved learning that Amelia was the
first lady to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
The children have been creating planes from pasta, colouring
in the canary plane, learning how to make paper airplanes and flying them
outside, learning how to draw a plane step by step and so much more.
In English this week we started to read the story of Jack
and the Beanstalk; we all loved this story! We read a few different versions
and even watched a musical version too! The children learnt the story through
role play and a story map and then used their own story maps to sequence and
retell the story using amazing oracy skills!
In maths this week we have been combining two groups. The
children have worked so hard and progressed so well with their early addition
stories. We also continue to sing our 2-, 5- and 10-times table songs daily.
The children’s reading has been fantastic this week in
phonics. We have been learning digraphs /or/ and /ur/.
In outdoor learning this week we had outlines of footprints and we collected daisy's, grass and leaves to fill the footprints in, we then went on a footprint hunt around the edge of the school field!
Next week we look forward to pancake day, St Piran’s Crafternoon
with the parents and World Book Day!
Have a wonderful weekend
The Foundation Team
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