A Whit Wooooo Week for Willow!

We had a wonderful week learning about 'The Owl Babies'...

Letters and Sounds!

Hi Mums, Dads, Nans, Grandads and Responsible Guardians out there!

I think the weather scared lots of you away from our 'Letters and Sounds Drop In' this afternoon!
Well fear not...I have homework for you!

On the right hand side of this blog there is a video clip showing how all of the letters/ blends of letters are pronounced as sounds. Please watch this, as you will note it is very different from when we went to school!
If we are all teaching the children to pronounce the letter sounds correctly it really helps them to quickly pick up reading and spelling :-) !

We teach each letter sound with 'Jolly Phonic actions and songs' I have found a YouTube clip of these so you can sing along at home!

There are also some brilliant online games to help with reading, spelling, learning 'tricky' words (words which do not sound out).
www.phonicsplay.co.uk
www.topmarks.co.uk

So have fun with phonics!
You know where I am if you need any more support!
Miss Quinn x

Autumn Fun

This week we have been learning about Autumn!

We all went on an Autumn walk and searched for signs of Autumn.

We found leaves on the floor.

The leaves were crunchy.

The leaves had changed colour.

There are not many flowers.

We found berries on some bushes

   












We decided to make an information book so we could help other people learn about Autumn! Look at some of the excellent writing we have done for the book.

Archie's Writing

Alisha's Writing

We have also been looking at the size and shapes of leaves in Maths and sorting them into groups. Today we looked at the leaves size, shape and colour and made 'pattern' leaf crowns! They look amazing!

The enormous turnip - A song for children

This week we have been looking at the story of The Enormous Turnip. We have practised acting out the story and have made a story book to share the story with the Nursery children.

You can share this song at home!

Mmmm Mud Soup!

Today the Owls went out on Wellie Wednesday and had lots of fun making  some lovely Autumn 'Mud soup' and 'Mud pies'!

We used lots of different ingredients to make all different mixtures!

What great chefs we are :-)

What food do you like?

This week we will be starting our Harvest topic. We will be thinking about the foods we like and don't like and finding out where our foods come from.
We will be thinking which food is healthy and those that are not so healthy and designing a healthy packed lunch.
You could help at home by cutting out pictures of food from magazines, leaflets and maybe making some lovely posters.

Welcome Willow Class 2014 - 2015

Well done to all of the new children in Willow class!
You are all coming into school really well and starting to arrange all of your belongings.
We have had lots of fun so far!
We are learning all about each other, what we like, don't like, who our friends are and who is in our families.
We made a Charter together to show everyone what rules we like in our class. These rules will keep us safe, happy and help us to be good learners.