Welcome to the Ospreys Class!
Staff
Teacher: Hannah Simpkin
TAs: Thomas Winterburn and Danielle Woodlock
Mid Day Leader: Hannah Wynn
Newsletter
Food Glorious Food
Our theme this half term has been ‘Food Glorious Food’.
In Our Early Maths sessions we have used some new shape sorting resources to manipulate, used coloured bowls to sort, build on a light tray with coloured bricks and blocks and enjoyed sensory number song props. Some of us have explore big and small as well as one and lots.
We have really enjoyed Creative Development and used paints, tools and perspex to make marks and created some lovely art work for our display boards. We also enjoyed our music sessions where we had a turn playing solos as well as all together as a group.
Our very favourite part of Creative Development has been exploring cutting of lots of different food such as bananas, strawberries, cucumbers and lettuces and making fruit kebabs.
Our sensory story has been ‘The very Hungary Caterpillar and we have really enjoyed exploring colours, creatures, foods as well as telling the story on the light tray with images, creating food mats on the days of the week and role playing with the small world foods. We enjoyed decorating insects with playdough and using tools to cut, squash and roll our home made dough.
In our ‘I wonder’ sessions we have explored Eid, Easter and also the Holi festival.
We had a lovely Languages day where we explored and created our own Rangoli patterns, used blocks and lego to design our own Taj Mahal, explored light toys for the Light festival and used torches to explore the world map.
We hope you have had a lovely half term,
Thank you,
From the Ospreys
Signalong
At Kingfisher we use Signalong as a part of a Total Communication Approach, we are constantly using core vocabulary with the children to support their language development and then through each of our topics we introduce new signs and language, which extends their vocabulary further. We also have two “Signs of the Week” which helps maintain and extend key knowledge and skills of everyday vocabulary.
Each half term we will be creating a short video showcasing and demonstrating signs relavent for the current term so that you can learn the signs and further this learning at home.
Click play to watch this half terms Signalong video!
Lunchtime
If your child has a school dinner, the school menus can be accessed by clicking here. For children who bring a packed lunch, please remember to provide healthy and balanced options. We are a Healthy School and will be focusing on healthy eating and how children can make healthy lifestyle choices.
How You Can Help at Home
The following activities are suggested as appropriate homework activities which you can enjoy with your child and reinforce the learning, we are focussing on this half term.
Our theme this half term is ‘Food Glorius Food.’
Early English/Communication –
- Share nursery rhymes/ action rhymes together. Can your child join in? Can they find their head?
- Can they request a song by pointing on YouTube or verbally saying which one they want?
- Encourage your child to make requests by looking and touching, verbally or using sign. Can your child begin to use ‘I want…?’
- Can you use exciting toys to attract your child’s attention? Can they ask for more through vocalisations, verbally requesting, touching?
- Can your child mark make or make patterns or letters in sensory food exploration like jelly crystals, flour, icing yogurt?
Early Maths –
- Can your child match colours of toys? Can they get the red strawberries on one plate and the green apple slices on another?
- Have a tea party, can your child put a piece of sandwich or cake one each plate? Can they put 1 spoon in each cup? Can they request more?
- Can you use biscuits to stack? You can ask for one of them? And then ask for more? Can your child pass you objects with request? Which hand has 1 biscuit, and which has lots?
- Big and small. Can your child choose the small teddy from a choice of 2?
Understanding of the World –
- Can you make a picnic together? Can your child spread the jam or chop the banana? Can your child help to pour some water into a cup from a jug with support? Can you go outside on a blanket and spend some time outdoors?
Creative development-
This half term we will be using malleable resources to sculpt and manipulate. Can you make 2 ingredient dough together in a bowl with a spoon?
You could make some handprint dough and let it set for a Mother’s Day gift.
You could use homemade yogurt paint to be creative and see what patterns you can make together?
Thank you!
We hope you have lots of fun together!
