During the last three days of school children in Foundation 1 enjoyed making their Easter cards, hearing about the Easter story and making shredded wheat nests to take home. (Pictures below)
In phonics we have been practising rhyming. At home you can help your child by reading rhyming stories and identifying the rhyming words or making up rhyming strings e.g. ‘Cat, sat, mat, hat’. You can extend this by then making up a rhyme ‘the cat sat on a mat, wearing his favourite hat’.
When we return for the summer term we will begin our project Growing and Changing with the story The Little Red Hen. Please take the time to read the letter, that was sent home with your child, about our project. Especially the suggested activities for home and the key vocabulary you can use when talking about the themes within our project.
As the weather improves please take the time to visit the local parks and encourage your children to climb and hang off park apparatus. This will help them develop their gross motor skills and lead to better fine motor skills, holding pencils brushes etc which will help them develop their writing skills.
Last, but not least, have an eggcellent Easter Break! See you back at school on Tuesday 12th April.
This week children in Foundation 1 continued their learning by exploring in our pet shop role play area. They also met Baby, Mrs Kingsman’s pet guniea pig, and enjoyed feeding her carrots, green peppers and apples from her snack box.
We finished the week by taking part in the school sports relief activities and managed to get 83 points! That was one point for each circuit of the playground they completed.
Thank you all for the donations made to sports relief. Please see the bulletin for the grand total.
Next week we will be reading Little Rabbit Foo Foo and we will also be doing some Easter activities before we finish for the Easter break on Wednesday.
Meeting Baby
Feeding Baby 
Warming up for Sports Relief…
Racing against the clock
Last week in Foundation 1 we have been learning the story Dear Zoo. The children have enjoyed learning the story and the story song. On Wednesday we went to the hall to practice moving like the animals in the story and talking about why they wouldn’t make good pets.
A few children talked about their own pets and what they did to look after them. If you have pets at home please send a picture in to help your child share information about their pets.
We will be visited by Mrs KIngsman’s guniea pig this week and will explore some more facts about pets. We will also learn where animals are treated when they are ill.
You can help your child’s learning by taking the time to talk about pets at home and visit the local pet shops to explore the types of pets on sale.
This week Foundation 1 had their project Ignite with Lees Reptiles. The children got to see, and touch, a variety of reptiles including three different types of snakes and a Bosc lizard. We also saw two skunks and the children described the differences between the reptiles and the mammals.
Lee’s Reptiles will be at Kingston Tescos this Saturday (5th March) to raise money for the Henry Allen Trust so if you want to see, and hold, some of these amazing animals yourselves get yourself down there between 10am and 4pm.
Next week, Foundation 1 at Countess Way will be moving on to a new story within our project. We will by learning Dear Zoo and will be thinking about why some animals are not suitable as pets and why some are.
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Foundation 1 have achieved some excellent learning last half term through our Journeys project. From making clay pigs and wolves during The Three Little Pigs weeks to recreating the scenes from We’re Going on a Bear Hunt to role play the story.
Next half term we will move on to our project Ears, Tails and Whiskers. We start this project with the story Walking Through the Jungle by Julie Lacome.
At home you could talk to your children about which animals live in the jungle. What do they sound like? Can they describe the animals? Find out a little about what the animals eat…
Lastly, please bring in a picture, or a souvenir, of one activity your child did in the holidays to share with the group on the first day back (22nd Feb).
Enjoy the rest of the half term break!
Mrs Kingsman, Mrs Penton and Miss Redshaw
Today all the children in Foundation 1 learnt how to make pancakes. We talked about the ingredients and took turns stirring the mixture. Afterwards we ate (more…)
Foundation one finished their learning about the Three Little Pigs by learning a song to tell the story. We also watched a Disney version of the story called Silly Symphonies which you can access on YouTube. The children finished their clay pigs and some had a go making the wolf too. We learnt that there are lots of different types of pigs and they are not all pink!
Next week we continue our project Journeys with a new core book. We will be learning Michael Rosen’s We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. At home you could read the book or listen to the story on YouTube.
Please read everyday to your child, this will help their language development and literacy skills too.
Drawing a little pig with chalk outside
This week in Foundation 1 we have been learning The Three Little Pigs story. Children have been practicing acting out the story with puppets. They have also been very creative by making straw, stick and brick houses (out of the large wooden bricks). Some children enjoyed building a farm from the small construction blocks and many children made pigs out of clay. We will continue this theme next week.
At home you can support your child’s knowledge and learning by exploring and talking about materials that were used to make your houses. You could also watch YouTube clips about pigs and other farm animals or visit the library to borrow books about farm animals. Have fun learning together! 
