Foundation Class Update

Although it has been a shorter week, Foundation have still packed in lots of exciting learning and fun activities!

The children have continued practising their handwriting and sentence writing. Please do encourage them to write at home by giving them lots of opportunities with paper and pencils—they are making fantastic progress. This week we also learned a new phonics sound: ea. This was quite a tricky one because it sounds the same as ee! Over the next few weeks we will begin looking at more Set 3 sounds, so please continue practising the Set 1 and Set 2 sounds at home, along with any new sounds we learn each week which I will post here to keep us updated.

In maths, the children have been exploring shapes, including composing and decomposing them. We talked about how a triangle is still a triangle even when it is turned upside down, and how shapes can be found all around us. The children then created their own tangrams, which looked fantastic!

Our topic of “Glorious Gardens” continues to be a big hit. The children are doing a wonderful job caring for our sunflowers and beans, which have now started to sprout—very exciting! We were also introduced to five real-life hungry caterpillars, which we will observe as they grow and hopefully transform into butterflies over the coming weeks. The children have loved watching them and sharing what they already know about life cycles. The children also used the internet under adult supervision to research questions they wanted answered like 'What is the biggest caterpillar in the world". We also have looked at what foods come from plants and which ones don't and also what food grows underground and what food grows above ground.

There has also been lots of imaginative play and creativity this week. The children have been building their own laptops using construction toys, painting with fruit, making buildings with blocks, playing with the tunnels (and using them for everything but a tunnel!), and creating all sorts of things in the mud kitchen.

Have a wonderful weekend, and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Mr Thrift