Learning Journey
​This week we have been revising all the animals we have been learning through out the learning block. We explored tuff spot tray activities such as Arctic and Antarctic  animals in the snow, African animals in the soil, leaves and branches. We also drew our favourite  animals around the world. 

For our Exit Point we enjoyed playing with small world animal toys sharing our knowledge and understanding through information books and pictures. We also explored a large world map to find out the continents and which animal lives in which continent.  

Learning Journey
This week we have been   sharing the story The Gingerbread Man. We enjoyed designing and making our own gingerbread men. Luckily ours did not run away from us! We also worked cooperatively in pairs to order and retell the story and the famous lines. We enjoyed colouring  the story of gingerbread man and arranged them in sequence. We also practised what the Gingerbread Man and the Fox said.

Learning Journey
This week we have been learning about Australian animals. We used non-fiction books and video clips to extend our knowledge of animals in Australia such as kangaroo, koala bear, emu and wombat.  We had fun observing and exploring animals around the world in our Tuff Spot tray, using a magnifying glass and books. In arts and crafts we enjoyed making koala bear masks and 3D kangaroo with toilet rolls. We also painted and drew pictures of Australian animals. We extended our knowledge of animals by sorting animals around the world on a large world map using different continents. 

Learning Journey
We are having lots of fun with our Traditional Tales topic and this week we have been learning all about the story of The Little Red Hen. We have been very busy retelling the story and discussing it. We have also been learning how to story sequence in the correct order and have been making Little Red Hen character masks. We have been very creative making paper plate hens and pretending to be animals from the story.

​Do you know all of the characters from The Little Red Hen?

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Learning Journey
We are continuing our Traditional Tales topic and learning all about The Three Little Pigs story. We have been very busy designing houses for the Little Pigs and we have been working in our teams to make a house made of straw, a house made of wood and a house made of bricks.
Which house do you think is the strongest?

We have also been learning to write sentences and wrote down what we thought the Big Bad Wolf would say and what the Pigs would say.

MATHS
In Maths this week, we have been working very hard to count in 2s and 10s. We have had fun learning through songs, games and interactive counting activities.

​Can you help us count in 2s and 10s at home?

LITERACY 
In phonics - Ms. Niumai’s group have been recapping phase 2 phonics and have been learning diagraphs /oo/ and /ar/.
 
Ms. Gemma’s group are looking at phonemes /j/ and/v/. We found objects beginning with these  letter sounds.
 
Ms. Vijaya’s group are looking at letter sounds /ear/ and /air/.
 
In guided reading we are trying to read in groups and discussing stories.

We have been practising to write in sentences by describing characters from traditional tales in our writing journals.

This week we have been learning about Asian and African animals. We used non-fiction books and video clips to extend our knowledge on animals. We had fun observing and exploring animals from the continents of Asia and Africa. We enjoyed making lion masks, panda and elephant hats and drawing stripes on a zebra.  

Learning Journey
This week we had our entry point to introduce our new topic for this learning block Animals Around the World. We had fun observing and exploring animals from different continents. We had fun decorating  cupcakes with animal faces and we enjoyed eating them afterwards - yummy! We also had fun exploring different Tuff Spot trays with animals from around the world. 

Learning Journey
We have had a fun week back at school this week. We had our Entry Point to introduce our new topic of Traditional Tales. We were so lucky to have two very special visitors: Goldilocks who came to tell us all about the Three Bears and gave us some yummy porridge to eat, and Little Red Riding Hood who told us all about the Big Bad Wolf. She gave us some delicious cookies to eat. We asked them lots of questions and enjoyed spending time with them.
We have been looking at the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears this week, we have been busy sorting sizes of bowls, chairs and beds from the Three Bears' cottage and we even made porridge!

MATHS
In Maths this week, we have been trying our best with halving. We have halved different objects as well as halving our class and enjoyed Frooby the Dragon's help with halving too.​

 LITERACY 
In phonics - Ms. Niumai’s group have been recapping phase 2 phonics and have been learning diagraphs /ng/ and /ai/.
 
Ms. Gemma’s group are looking at letter sounds, blending CVC words and trying to read captions.
 
Ms. Vijaya’s group are looking at diagraphs /or/ and /ur/.

​In guided reading we are trying to read in groups and discussing stories. We discussed and drew our exciting holiday news in our writing journal.
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Learning Journey
This week we have been reflecting through our topic transport using non-fiction books and cooperative structure games. We had fun making transport with pancakes and going on a transport hunt in the big school for our EXIT POINT!  

What a fantastic learning block it has been! iCAN PLAY and NURSERY have been amazing learners: exploring, discovering and gaining new knowledge and practising their skills to understand the topic we have been learning throughout this learning block. They showed great resilience and thinking skills to answer the questions throughout their learning journey. The learners were also excellent enquirers asking questions of why things happen and how things work and showing care and concern for living things.

Reception  learners were fantastic during their class assembly. They demonstrated lots of Personal Goals, especially singing the respective song which they learned as part of their jigsaw curriculum. They were great communicators and were able to say many facts relating to the different minibeasts. They co-operated with each other and were all big risk takers for performing so well at their first class assembly.
 
Thank you to all the families who joined us for our class assembly and our Exit Point. The children loved sharing their learning from this learning block and a fantastic way to end our Dinosaur topic,  exploring the volcano eruption.

After the Khmer New Year holidays our talk topic is..... iCAN’s Got Talent
Are you entering IGT?
What talents do you think will win?
What is the scariest part of performing on stage?
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iCAN PLAY/NURSERY

Learning Journey
This week we have been revising Transport we have been learning for the past few weeks. We enjoyed watching non-fiction video clips on transport around the world. 
In our nature smart area we have been exploring  leaves, sticks and stones using magnifying glasses.  
In the arts and crafts area we made trains and painted with ice cubes. 

Learning Journey
In Reception this week we had fun going on a dinosaur hunt. We had so much fun  learning  and acting out the story.  We are building our knowledge of dinosaur names and features and really thinking about wow words to describe each dinosaur. We have also made our very own volcano and saw it erupt! Arghhhhh!
We have been working very hard in practising for our joint assembly about mini-beasts next week and hope all our parents can join us. 

LITERACY
In phonics - Ms. Niumai’s group have been recapping phase 1 and 2 phonics.
 
Ms. Gemma’s group are looking at new tricky words and diagraphs /oo/ and /ar/.
 
Ms. Vijaya’s group are blending CVC words. Looking at diagraphs /ng/ and /th/ and tricky words him & his.
 
In guided reading we are trying to read in groups and discussing stories.
We discussed and drew our weekend news in our writing journal.

We have been practising really hard for our  assembly and would love to share our learning with Reception families.  We would like to welcome all the Reception families to join us for our   Exit Point on Dinosaurs after the assembly. Reception parents are welcome to come to the class and go through their learning on the IPC learning wall, big books and Dinosaur fact files.

We hope to see you all!
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Learning Journey
This week we have continued to explore Transport. We have been using our knowledge and skills to learn more about land transport. We looked at non fiction books and video clips on land transport. We had fun making  paper plate cars and trains. We liked making wheel marks with paint using big and small vehicles.  We  also had fun making pizza sailing boats. It was so yummy!!!!!

Learning Journey
This week we have been learning all about the Pterodactyl. We looked at non-fiction books and used the internet to find out lots of information about the pterodactyl. We then used this information to write a fact file. We worked cooperatively to made a large pterodactyl using different textures. 

LITERACY
Ms. Niumai’s group we have been revising phase 1 phonics.

Ms. Gemma’s group have been revising tricky words ‘you ‘and ‘they’ and diagraphs /oa/ and igh/. ​

Ms. Vijaya’s group have been revising ‘get’ and ‘big’ and  sound  /y/ and  diagraph qu/.This group also practising blending with the sounds learned so far.