Welcome Back!

Welcome back five year olds! We have a very busy year ahead so let's get started with our first unit "school".

Routine objectives

Unit objectives

Hello song

Season song

O'clock song

Parts of a story

Vocabulary

School song

school bag

teacher says

                      Have fun! We look forward to your comments!  

Healthy habits

The five year olds have really enjoyed this topic! They have also started free writing in English: "apol" meaning apple, "caret" for carrot and many more. This is fantastic! This is how children in England start writing! I'm really pleased with their effort! Well done!

Sea animals

The five year olds are beginning their next topic: sea animals. They learnt most of the vocabulary last year, so this is a good chance to really speak at the activity centres. here are some activities to try at home:

plan

hello

calendar

story

Baby shark

submarine

vocab

new fish

swimming fish

ocean game

webcams

memory

how many fish

                                          

Healthy choices

The five year olds are moving onto the  next topic: healthy habits.
Here are some activities to do at home:

plan

hello

calendar

chant

wow

sid

rock

smoothie

teeth

brush teeth

wordsearch

shopping list

caillou

dish

quiz

spin

                                                        

spring 5

Here are the 5 year olds with the activities from our latest topic: Spring.

Phonics term three

3 year olds:

Jolly phonics group 1, 2, 3 + J,W,X,Y,Z.
Initial sounds 
Blending/segmenting. 
Recognize simple rhyming words.
Music: “What can you do?",
“One little finger”, “Put on your shoes”.
Communication skills: Classroom orders: Stand up, sit down, close the door, tidy up, Can I go to the toilet please?

4 year olds:

All sounds: Phase two, Phase three.
Tricky words
Initial, ending sounds
Blending
Segmenting
Captions 
Rhyming words
Starfall: short vowel stories: ZAC, PEG, BIG, MOX, GUS.
Music: “Interrupting song”, “Fun action song”, “Please and thank you”.
Communication skills: I like/ I love/ I don’t like... 


5 year olds:

Stories: story song
Tricky words
Blending
Segmenting
Games 
Starfall: games and stories,
Book reviews
Punctuation (question mark, capital letters, full stop etc),

Stories: 
1) Upsy down town by Sue Hendra
2) What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
3) Each peach pear plum by Janet and Allen Ahlberg

Communication skills: Using questions: How many...? What colour...? Can I...? Have you got...? I want...? and answering in sentences.

Spring

The five year olds are learning about Spring, escpecially animal and plant life cycles. Here are some activities to practice at home:

plan

hello

calendar

story

hungry caterpillar song

spring song

butterfly song

metamorphosis

seed to flower

sheppards game

caillou

story book