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Ladybird Class 2022

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Summer Term

Week Beginning 17th July 2023

Here are some photos of our last week as Ladybird Class.

Enjoy your Summer holidays and keep safe.

With our love

Mrs Johnson, Mrs Bowen, Ms Rowlands, Mrs Smith, Mrs Newton and Mrs Twitchett.

Week Beginning 10th July 2023

Hello Ladybirds! It's Mrs O'Briain, Mrs Woodman and Mrs Oakman here! We just wanted to say how lovely it was to spend Wednesday morning with you this week! You were amazing Hedgehogs for the morning; we can't wait for September when Mrs O'Briain will be teaching you Mondays - Wednesdays and Mrs Woodman on Thursdays & Fridays.

We had so much fun, doing lots of Hedgehog themed activities; we made playdough hedgehogs with spaghetti and cheerio quills, we printed hedgehogs using a forks, curled paper to make different quills and so much more! It was a very busy morning! We hope you all had fun and look forward to you joining us in September!

Week Beginning 26th June 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Phonics/Literacy and Understanding of the world:

Can you talk to your grown-up about the changes that happened to our caterpillars. Perhaps you could write about these changes (The butterfly life-cycle)

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

Mathematics:

Can you practise counting in twos?

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 19th June 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Phonics/Literacy:

Can you practise your writing skills by choosing a picture from one of your favourite books/magazines etc. Use your learnt phonic skills to write about the picture.

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

Mathematics:

Can you practise saying the days of the week in order (starting with Monday). Can you remember our song to help you with the order?

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 12th June 2023

Week Beginning 5th June 2023

Our first sports day at Stretham Primary.  We really enjoyed being in our houses and running our races.  Thanks to all the parents who were able to come and support us all.

 

It has been a busy week this week and Mrs Johnson has been poorly.  We are hoping to welcome her back next week.  Thank you to everyone who asked after her.

Week Beginning 22nd May 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Physical Development (Fine Motor):

Can you continue to develop your eye-hand coordination, pincer grip and wrist movement through weaving?

Using a cooling rack encourage your child to weave laces/ribbons up and down through the grill. Remember to look really carefully to ensure you go up and down alternatively!

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seesaw with us.)

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. 
  • Read and practise writing your Tricky and Common words. Don't forget our newly learnt 'Tricky' words some, come, like. These words will be our pass keys next week!!!

Actions:

Like: Move your flat hand palm towards your chest in a circular movement.

http://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/dictionary/words/like-1.html

Some: Using right hand rub fingers and thumbs together whilst moving hand up and past your chin. http://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/dictionary/words/some-1.html

Come: Using both hands like you are beckoning someone/something to come closer. 

http://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/dictionary/words/come%20on-1.html

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Mathematics:

Can you create some repeating patterns. Can you be really creative with the objects that you use to create your pattern and then to repeat this pattern three times. Remember what ever you use you will need enough objects to complete your repeats.

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 15th May 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Physical Development:

Can you continue to develop your Gross Motor skills.

The weather is going to be lovely this weekend can you practise riding your bike or scooter.

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seesaw with us.)

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. 
  • Read and practise writing your Tricky and Common words. Don't forget our newly learnt 'Tricky' words so, have. These words will be our pass keys next week!!!

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Mathematics:

Can you continue your skills of subtraction. Make a collection of 10 or 20 objects. with a partner roll your dice. Subtract the number you have just rolled. How many do you have left? Continue to take it in turns. The person to subtract the last object is the winner! Remember you can only remove the number of items shown on the dice. For example if you have rolled a 5 and there are only 4 objects left you miss a turn.

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 8th May 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Creative Development:

Can you continue to develop our learning in music.

Listen to this piece of music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rmh0AodIM4 Can you remember what is was about? (Teddy Bear Picnic)

Discuss with your grown-up how it makes you feel. Discuss with your grown-up...

Was the tempo fast or slow?

Was the pitch high or low?

Was the dynamics loud or quiet?

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seesaw with us.)

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. 
  • Read and practise writing your Tricky and Common words. Don't forget our newly learnt 'Tricky' word here. It will be our pass key to get in on Monday morning!!!

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Mathematics:

Can you continue your skills of subtraction. Make a collection of 10 or 20 objects. with a partner roll your dice. Subtract the number you have just rolled. How many do you have left? Continue to take it in turns. The person to subtract the last object is the winner! Remember you can only remove the number of items shown on the dice. For example if you have rolled a 5 and there are only 4 objects left you miss a turn.

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 1st May 2023

What a busy week we have had with an exciting end to the week with our celebrations.

Using fine motor skills (hand strength) to create flowers from multi-link. Playing the game grab a handful to help learning about estimating - to make a good guess. Playing the game grab a handful to help learning about estimating - to make a good guess. The children then used ten frames to see how good their estimation was. The children then used ten frames to see how good their estimation was. Practising letters formation - 'w' Labelling the different parts of a flower. Labelling the different parts of a flower. Dancing the Barbers Pole. Dancing the Barbers Pole. Dancing the Barbers Pole. Dancing a variation of the Barbers Pole. Dancing a variation of the Barbers Pole. Dancing the Spiders Web. Dancing the Spiders Web. Dancing the Spiders Web. Dancing the Spiders Web. We invited our grown-up to join us in a dance around the Maypole. We invited our grown-up to join us in a dance around the Maypole. Although it rained heavily at lunch time we enjoyed our picnic lunch inside. Although it rained heavily at lunch time we enjoyed our picnic lunch inside. Although it rained heavily at lunch time we enjoyed our picnic lunch inside. Although it rained heavily at lunch time we enjoyed our picnic lunch inside. Although it rained heavily at lunch time we enjoyed our picnic lunch inside. We joined in with the whole school creation of the crown. We added some beautiful flowers to the design. We joined in with the whole school creation of the crown. We created our own Union Jack flags using careful pen skills. Using 'Loose Parts' we create crowns fit for our new King. Using 'Loose Parts' we create crowns fit for our new King. Using 'Loose Parts' we create crowns fit for our new King. Using 'Loose Parts' we created Union Jack flag designs. We created our own Union Jack flags using careful pen skills. Using 'Loose Parts' we create crowns fit for our new King. Using 'Loose Parts' we created Union Jack flag designs. Using 'Loose Parts' we created Union Jack flag designs. We created our own Union Jack flags using careful pen skills. We created our own Union Jack flags using careful pen skills. Using 'Loose Parts' we created Union Jack flag designs. Using 'Loose Parts' we created Union Jack flag designs. Using 'Loose Parts' we created Union Jack flag designs. Using 'Loose Parts' we created Union Jack flag designs. Happy Coronation King Charles.

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Gross Motor Skills:

Continue to develop your ball skills from your PE lessons.

  • Throw the ball just above head height and catch it.
  • Throw the ball into the air, let it bounce on the floor and then catch it.

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seesaw with us.)

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. 
  • Read and practise writing your Tricky and Common words.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Mathematics:

Can you continue your skills with making good estimations. Can you grab a handful of objects. Have a good guess (estimation) of how many you have in your hand. Put them down and count your objects. How close was your estimation? 

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 24th April 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Fine Motor Skills:

Continue to develop your scissor skills by drawing a line and then cutting along the line.

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seesaw with us.)

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. Can you practise your newly learnt trigraphs, 3 letters that make 1 sound, 'ure' like in the words: pure, manure, cure.  Also 'er' like in the words: butter, herd, fern. Can you use your letter cards to make some 'er' and 'ure' words? Can you extend your learning and write a sentence using a 'er' and 'ure' word?
  • Read and practise writing your Tricky words: to, the, I, no, go, he, she, we, me, be, was, my, said, they, you, are, by.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Mathematics:

Can you continue your skills in recognising numbers 1-20 and beyond. 

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 17th April 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Fine Motor Skills:

Continue to develop your bilateral coordination by tearing pieces of paper to create a picture.

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seesaw with us.)

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. Can you practise your newly learnt trigraphs, 3 letters that make 1 sound, 'air' like in the words: fair, hair, pair.  Also 'ear' like in the words: hear, tear, spear. Can you use your letter cards to make some 'air' and 'ear' words? Can you extend your learning and write a sentence using a 'air' and 'ear' word?
  • Read and practise writing your Tricky words: to, the, I, no, go, he, she, we, me, be, was, my, said, they, you, are, by.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Mathematics:

Can you build models to represent number 11-20 e.g. use Lego bricks/blocks to build a tower to represent 13, count out 13 counters, write the number 13 to go with your model. Repeat with other numbers 11-20. 

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

Spring Term

Week Beginning 27th March 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Understanding the World:

This week at school we have been learning about the Easter celebration. Are you celebrating Easter? How did you celebrate this festival?

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seesaw with us.)

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. Can you practise your newly learnt digraph, 2 letters that make 1 sound, 'oi' like in the words: boil, foil, soil.  Also 'ur' like in the words: church, burn, turn. Can you use your letter cards to make some 'oi' and 'ur' words? Can you extend your learning and write a sentence using a 'oi' and 'ur' word?
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go, he, she, we, me, be, was, my, said, they, you) Can you practise your new 'Tricky' words: 'are' and 'by'.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

 

Mathematics:

What shapes can you find around your home? Are they 2D (flat) or are they 3D (Solid). Can you name the shapes you find?

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 20th March 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Gross Motor Skills:

Can you practise your straight rolls

Begin in an arch shape.

Roll to a dish shape

Finish in an arch shape

Remember keep arms and legs extended and lifted from the floor.

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seesaw with us.)

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. Can you practise your newly learnt digraph, 2 letters that make 1 sound, 'oo' like in the words: foot, boot, book.  Also 'ar' like in the words: star, park, farm. Can you use your letter cards to make some 'oo' and 'ar' words?
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go, he, she, we, me, be, was, my, said) Can you practise your new 'Tricky' words: 'they' and 'you'.
  • Remember to look at your reading book. (Adults please record in your child's blue reading record.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

 

Mathematics:

Can you find some 3D (Solid) shaped objects around your house/garden. Can you build a slope for your shapes to roll down. Which shapes roll best? Why?

N.B. Remember the shape will not need any force to roll down the slope. No pushing!  (A cube shape will slide as it has a flat surface).

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

 

Week Beginning 13th March 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Fine Motor Skills:

Can you practise your hand/eye coordination and balancing skills? Can you walk and carry a plate, cup, knife and fork on a tray just like we do at lunch time!

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seesaw with us.)

 

Mathematics:

Can you find some objects around your house and describe them using our new learnt vocabulary: tall, tallest, taller, short, shortest, shorter, long, longest, longer. Could you use some Lego/Duplo/Blocks (need to be the same size) to measure the length or height of these objects?

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

 

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. 
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go, he, she, we, me, be, was, my, said)
  • Remember to look at your reading book. (Adults please record in your child's blue reading record.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 6th March 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Fine Motor Skills:

Can you practise your writing skills? Can you use the correct formation to write the letters of the alphabet? (Lower case)

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seesaw with us.)

 

Mathematics:

Can you play our maths game from this week and use the vocabulary 'tall, short, taller, shorter'.

Roll your dice and build a tower to represent that number. Roll the dice again and build another tower. Describe the heights of your two towers.

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

 

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. 
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go, he, she, we, me, be, was, my, said)
  • Remember to look at your reading book. (Adults please record in your child's blue reading record.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 27th February 2023

Week Beginning 20th February 2023

This week has been a busy week with beginning our new topic. We finished the week with our first class assembly for the school, parents and friends. We did it so well, sharing our learning from last half term singing, dancing and sharing our knowledge of our learning about the Chinese New Year. Mrs Johnson and Ms Rowlands were very proud of us all!

 

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Fine Motor Skills:

Can you practise your scissor skills? Can you cut along a marked line? 

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seasaw with us.)

 

Mathematics:

Can you play a board game like 'Snakes and Ladders'. Roll you dice and carefully count on the correct number of moves.

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

 

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. Can you practise your newly learnt digraph, 2 letters that make 1 sound, 'ee' like in the words feet, tree, seed) Can you use your letter cards to make some 'ee' words?
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go, he, she, we, me, be, was)
  • Remember to look at your reading book. (Adults please record in your child's blue reading record.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 6th February 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Fine Motor Skills:

Can you use a brush and then a dustpan and brush to sweep up the floor. 

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seasaw with us.)

 

Mathematics:

Can you continue your learning of combining two groups of objects together and working out the total. Can you remember to use the vocabulary: 'add' and 'equals'.

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

 

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. (a-z but remember q only has a name it comes with u to make qu like in quack, quick, quiz. Can you practise your newly learnt digraph, 2 letters that make 1 sound, 'ai' like in the words snail, pain, tail) Can you use your letter cards to make some 'ai' words?
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go, he, she, we, me, be, was)
  • Remember to look at your reading book. (Adults please record in your child's blue reading record.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 30th January 2023

Learning to tie a 'Granny' knot.

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Granny' knots.

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Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Fine Motor Skills:

Can you practise your 'Granny' knot. 

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seasaw with us.)

 

Mathematics:

Can you practise combining two groups of objects together and working out the total. Can you remember to use the vocabulary: 'add' and 'equals'.

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

 

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. (a-z but remember q only has a name it comes with u to make qu like in quack, quick, quiz. Can you practise your newly learnt digraph, 2 letters that make 1 sound, 'ng' like in the words ring, king, strong, wing)
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go, he, she, we, me, be)
  • Remember to look at your reading book. (Adults please record in your child's blue reading record.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 23rd January 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

Fine Motor Skills:

Can you help washup your breakfast, Lunch or Dinner plate, knife, fork and spoon using a sponge or cleaning brush. Don't forget to dry up as well! 

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seasaw with us.)

 

Mathematics:

Can you be a shape detective and find and name items that are circle, triangle and square shapes around your home.

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

 

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. (a-z but remember q only has a name it comes with u to make qu like in quack, quick, quiz. Can you practise your newly learnt digraphs, 2 letters that make 1 sound, 'sh' like in the words ship, fish, shop. 'th' unvoiced like in the words moth, bath, path. 'th' voiced like in this, that, with)
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go, he, she, we, me, be)
  • Remember to look at your reading book. (Adults please record in your child's blue reading record.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 16th January 2023

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

 

Fine Motor Skills:

Can you use chop sticks to transfer string noodles? Over the next two weeks the children are going to make and cook spring rolls. They are going to eat them using chop sticks!

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seasaw with us.)

 

Mathematics:

Can you practise writing your numbers 1-9 using the correct formation.

(We would love you to share your number formation on Seesaw.)

 

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. (a-z but remember q only has a name it comes with u to make qu like in quack, quick, quiz. Can you also practise your digraph, 2 letters that make 1 sound, ch like in the words chick, chop, chat)
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go, he, she)
  • Remember to look at your reading book. (Adults please record in your child's blue reading record.

(We would love you to share your phonic discoveries on Seesaw.)

Week Beginning 9th January 2023

Week Beginning 19th December

We have packed a lot into the last three days of term!

On Monday, we watched a wonderful Pantomime in the hall; lots of laughter and singing and Christmas cheer!

We've been busy making our Christmas hats ready for our Christmas dinner on Wednesday. It was delicious! Thank you Mrs Marsh and Mrs Tietz. We used our learnt reading skills to make Reindeer food ready for Christmas Eve. We went to St James' Church on Tuesday to practise singing our carols ready for the Carol Service in St James' Church on Wednesday morning.

What a busy week! We would like to thank all Ladybird families and friends for your support this term and wish you a happy Christmas and wonderful New Year!

Week Beginning 12th December

What a super festive week we have had, getting ready and performing our Christmas nativity 'Baarmy Bethlehem'! We hope those who came to watch it enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed performing. We were all very proud of the children.

Week Beginning 5th December

Creating repeating pattern paper chains.

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This week all the children in Ladybird class used their newly learnt mathematical knowledge to create repeating colour pattern paper chains.

Making paper chains

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Week Beginning 28th November

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

 

Fine Motor Skills:

Can you use your fine motor skills to undo some loose knots in a rope, scarf or ribbon?

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seasaw with us.)

 

Mathematics:

Can you use your newly learnt positional vocabulary to describe the position of an object?

(Using words: under, in, over, beside, next to, behind, infront. We would love to share your discoveries on Seasaw with us.)

 

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise all of your learnt Phonemes. (s,a,t,i,p,n,m,d,o,g,c,k,b,u,e,f,h,l,r,ll,ff,ss)
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go)
  • Remember to look at your reading book. (Adults please record in your child's blue reading record)

Week Beginning 21st November

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

 

Fine Motor Skills:

Can you continue to practise using your knife and fork when eating your dinner at home? 

(You are trying so hard to use this new skill during lunchtimes which eating your hot school dinner.)

Can you continue to practise undoing loose knots? 

 

Mathematics:

Can you practise counting ten objects with accuracy?

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seasaw with us.)

 

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise your newly learn Phonemes. (ll,ff,ss)
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go)
  • Remember to look at your reading book. (Adults please record in your child's blue reading record)

Week Beginning 14th November

Can you continue your learning at home this week?

 

Fine Motor Skills:

Can you continue to practise using your knife and fork when eating your dinner at home? 

(We would love to share your success on Seasaw with us.)

 

Mathematics:

Can you spot circles and triangles around your home?

(We would love to share your discoveries on Seasaw with us.)

 

Phonics/Literacy:

  • Remember to practise your newly learn Phonemes. (l,b,f)
  • Read your Tricky words.(to, the, I, no, go)
  • Remember to look at your reading book. (Adults please record in your child's blue reading record)

Week Beginning 7th November

Week Beginning 31st October

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Creating Dragon Sneezes! Creating a spark.

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Creating Dragon Sneezes! Creating a spark.

Week Beginning 17th October

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Week Beginning 10th October

Just a little reminder that Ladybird Class will be featuring in the First Class section of The Ely Standard on Thursday 20th October if you wished to purchase a copy.

Week Beginning 3rd October

Reminder to Parents and Carers

After another wonderful session of Forest Schooling please could we ask that all Ladybird Class return their wellington boots to school on Monday 3rd October ready for this week's learning.

Week Beginning 26th September

This week in Ladybird class we shall be introducing the children to the idea of a personal special Me Box.
The 'Me Box' contains different things that are very special to you. I will spend time showing the children some of the things in my 'Me Box' explaining why they are special to me e.g. photograph, picture of my
favourite food, something someone has given to me, something that describes a personal interest. We would like to Invite your child to decorate their own (shoe) box and think of things they may like to put inside
that are special to them. We shall spend the next few weeks sharing the items inside their 'Me Box' and identify similarities and differences between themselves and their peers in the choices they have made. Could I please ask you to clearly label the box with your child's name and also explain to your child this box will be kept very safe and only opened during our special circle time so items will be safe.

 

With my thanks in anticipation of your support.
Mrs Johnson

Week Beginning 19th September

Week Beginning 12th September

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