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Grayling Foundation have had a busy day to help fundraise for Children in Need. We went on a Pudsey hunt around the school and found 7 different Pudseys! We also joined in with Joe Wicks’ morning exercise and completed 5 laps of the playground for a Walkathon! All of Grayling have tried their best and enjoyed our different Pudsey related activities 🙂

Here is this week’s phonics video (Sorry again about the confusion in the phoneme books. You should have received an email explaining the correct order)

And finally, we look forward to seeing you on Monday morning for our next Stay and Play. The focus will be name writing and number learning 🙂

Have a great weekend

Miss Baker

This week we have talked about Rememberance Day and all the brave soldiers. Here is a little video that we watched to help us to understand what Rememberance Day is about…

The children then created poppy paintings and poppy badges to bring home. They were so grown up when we all tried to be silent at 11am today for 2 whole minutes 🙂

This week in phonics we learnt the phonemes v,w,y and x. Please keep looking back at all the phonemes we have learnt so far to help the children retain them 🙂 Here is this week’s video…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMkZvoqAtbY

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and a good rest. Get well soon to all our friends who have been feeling poorly this week. We are missing you!

Love the Grayling Foundation team

This week we have learnt 3 new digraphs and another phoneme! The children are great at remembering that 2 letters make 1 sound. Please watch the phonics video here….

In maths we have focused on the number 4. We have talked about a square having four corners and four sides as well as looking at number pairs to make 4. We know 3 and 1, 2 and 2, 4 and 0!

Here are some fun number and pattern games you can play at home…

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

We have had lots of discussions about fireworks and bonfire night and the children have enjoyed using their creative and cutting skills to make these firework masterpieces! I hope you have a fun yet safe time watching them this weekend 🙂

We have reached the end of our first half term in school! The children have settled in so well and grown so much as learners in this time 🙂

Sadly we said goodbye to Mrs Frampton today. We will miss her loads but wish her lots of luck in her new job!

Over the week please have a look back at the phonemes the children have learnt so far, watch the video link on the ‘welcome’ page of this blog or have a go at this fun balloon phonics game….

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/phonics/balloon-phonics-cvc-game

You will also find a name writing card in your child’s bookbag. We have been using these in school and the children are amazing at having a go to trace and then independently write their names, starting each letter in the correct place! Please keep this one at home 🙂

Thank you to those who have brought in wellies for our outdoor learning. If you have not done this yet then please bring in some named wellies to keep in school on our wellie rack.

I hope everyone has a well deserved rest over the half term and we look forward to seeing you back in school on Tuesday 1st November 🙂

Miss Baker

p.s … here are the children wearing their marvellous hats that they decorated with pictures and drawings of all the things they love 🙂

In maths we have been focusing on a number every week! So far we have explored 0,1,2 and 3! We represent these numbers in many ways including writing the numeral, dots on a dice or domino, counting objects, drawing pictures, counting the sides/corners of shapes and so much more! See if you can spot these numbers at home or whilst out and about!

Grayling Foundation LOVE being outdoors! In our first few weeks we went and explored the garden area where we found pumkins, beans, mint, sweetcorn and many other foods growing! We have also visited the chickens and hope to go and feed them soon. On our foundation playground, we love to hunt for bugs and recently found some beautiful webs!

We have been having so much fun in our PE lessons! We try so hard to use our ears to listen to the instructions, our eyes to navigate space and our bodies for moving! We have loved learning how to play ‘Beans’ and ‘Jack Frost’!

Hello and welcome to the Grayling Foundation blog! Please check back regularly for posts about what we have been learning and things to talk about at home 🙂

This week is an assessment week for phonics so we are not learning any new phonemes. Here is the video for last week’s phonemes for you to watch and join in with at home…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SxUrcs1maI

Over the half term, please look back through your phoneme book to revise all the phonemes we have learnt (blue dot: m- l)