Ashdown

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This week in Ashdown class

Week commencing 22nd April: 

This week we have been looking at the Big Wide World.  The children have continued to be fascinated by the maps we’ve been looking at.  We looked at and made bird’s eye maps in Woodland Wonder too. We learned about different climates and how some parts of the world are hotter and colder.  We also discovered that there are different animals that are specialised to live in these different habitats. Finding our school on Google Earth was very exciting. Could you look at Google Earth at home and type in your home address with your child and see it zoom from outer space to a bird’s eye view of you and your neigbours’ homes? 

We have had a lot of aeroplane themed role play to suit our international topic, and the children turned our climbing frame in to the outdoor learning area into an airport, complete with a runway on the neighbouring grass. 

In maths we have started looking at addition and subtractions, telling now, then and next stories, such as first there were 4 mice, then we found 3 more and now there are 7.  This is a lovely thing to practise at home, if you want to help support your child’s maths learning. 

We read the story The Proudest Blue, by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S. K. Ali to introduce link to our R.E. learning, where the children discovered that there are a variety of different faithers that people across the world follow, such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Humanism.   

Thank you for logging reading on Boom Reader, it is helpful to see how the children are progressing with reading at home, as well as in the classroom.   

Well done to everyone using Numbots at home as well, it is an excellent way to support essential maths skills, such as subitising. Please log your child’s reading once a week on Boom Reader and continue to use Numbots. If you have any problems logging on to either, please speak to your class teacher. 

Numbots

To use Numbots, for games to support number knowledge, confidence and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/#/intro  If you need your child's log-in please ask your class teacher.

A typical day in Reception

Adventure time is part of our Continued Provision.  Adults provide Enhanced Provisions by facilitating learning based around the children’s fascinations and interests, as well as our current class based learning.  In this time, we will also focus on children’s fine and gross motor skills – as part of their physical development, expressive arts and design, communication and language, maths, literacy, understanding the world and their personal, social and emotional development.