Weekly Review / Preview

RE Weekly Update: September 5th to September 9th, 2016

                                                                                                                                                                        

	This Week	Next Week
Phonics/ writing	This week, we practiced writing, reading and played games and fun activities around the letter sound ‘m’ and ‘s’.  We sang our jolly phonic songs from a-z and worked on letter formation using a variety of hands on activities.	Next week, We will be reviewing the sounds ‘a’, ‘m’ and ‘s’ and we will be introduced to the sound ’d’ and ‘t’.  We will be looking at the letter sounds through books, letter formation activities and phonic activities.
Math	We reviewed numbers from 0-20, by singing songs, playing counting games and number recognition games.	We will continue looking at number recognition and counting from 0-20.
PSD	We read a book about Ms Beanie’s classroom and talked about the importance of respecting our classroom properties and putting things back where they belong.	Next week, we will keep on talking about respecting our classroom property and how to put things back where they belong.
Science	This week we went on a second sensory walk with our cameras and pretended to take pictures. We took notes of our discoveries along the way.  We looked at the skeleton and learned about body parts and body movements.	Next week, we will be looking at emotions and feelings and discuss our summer holidays.
Art	In Art we cut and glue a skeleton with our partner. For our second lesson everyone participated and we made a puzzle of a full human body. Everyone drew a body part and we assembled each body part together to make a person.	Next week, we will play around color mixing and feelings. How certain colors make us feel. Perhaps we will look Artists such as the painter Rothko who paints to express feelings and emotions through the use of color and composition.
Physical	We kept on practicing cutting, writing and tracing. We also played the game ‘ Walking in the jungle’ and discussed the different movements and actions we can do with our body, jumping, walking, hopping, skipping etc.	Next week, we will keep working on pencil control and fine motor skills through various activities. We will keep on cutting, tracing, writing and having activities using playdough.
Notices and Events	No hat no play policy Please ensure that your child has a hat sent it. In accordance with our new policy, if your child does not have a hat, we cannot let them go out to play. This is for your child's protection and we would like to keep them safe from the sun.  Golden time Please remember to bring a toy for golden time on Fridays. Thank you.