EYFS

Learning in the Early Years

SUMMER BREAK!

6/6/2019

Early Years have had an AMAZING year! It has been an incredible learning  journey. We have shared many wonderful memories together. Well done to all our amazing learners in all year groups, you have been absolutely brilliant in all the curriculum learning areas. You have worked really hard and made fantastic progress! It has been a pleasure to see you grow in confidence and you have become great, independent learners.  All the children in EYS have been incredibly adaptable and showed super cooperation skills. You have shown resilience and you never give up with new learning. All the Learning Facilitators are so proud of who you have become.   Keep it up, you are all stars!

Happy summer holidays and best wishes from  
​Ms. Anjali, Ms. Helen, Ms. Vijaya, and the lovely EYS LSA team.

Good Luck to all the EYS learners who are leaving iCAN and moving on with their next adventures! We will miss you!

Don’t give up and keep going; remember IT’S OKAY TO MAKE MISTAKES! WE ALWAYS LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES!

Learning through play!

29/5/2019

A huge thank you to all the families that joined us for our Family Event last Saturday. We had a wonderful time!

iCAN PLAY/NURSERY

Learning Journey
This week we have been revising all the animals that we have been learning throughout 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 from around the world.

For our Exit Point, we enjoyed playing with small world animal toys. We loved 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.

Maths
This week in maths we have been revising our counting skills and number recognition. We have also been practising to form recognisable numbers. We enjoyed counting number games using the interactive whiteboard. We had fun revising 2D shapes through playing cooperative structure games such as Showdown and Mix-pair-share.

Literacy
This week we have been revising all the Phase One seven aspects. We practised learning environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body percussion, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and oral blending and segmenting

RECEPTION

Learning Journey
Who’s that trip trapping over my bridge? Our fairy tale this week was the Three Billy Goats Gruff. The learners enjoyed our small world play where they built a bridge for the goats and pretended to be the big, mean troll underneath. The learners also thought about different ways for the goats to get across the river, such as: jumping, building their own bridge, putting down large stones and making a boat.

This week RH have been getting ready to say goodbye to some special people by making cards for learners and Learning Facilitators who are leaving iCAN this year.

As part of their transition into Year 1, all the learners worked in their table teams to make a bridge for the goats. Together they planned and designed their bridge, chose the materials and constructed it together.

Maths
Our story this week led us onto positional language: where an object is. We looked at where the bear was in relation to the cup e.g. inside the cup, on the cup, beside the cup, in between the cup and the ball. We linked this back to our story by looking at where the goats go (they go over the bridge and stand on the bridge) and where the troll is in the story (he is under the bridge).

Phonics
All groups revised their letter sounds and tricky words this week. They did so using a variety of games, songs and written activities.
Please note that reading bags will stay in school from next Monday. Reading will still take place next week.

Learning Through Play!

20/5/2019

ICP/NURSERY

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 the 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 kangaroos with cardboard tubes. We also painted and drew pictures of Australian animals. We extended our knowledge of animals by sorting animals from around the world, on a large world map, using different continents.

Maths
This week we have been practising our counting skills and adding one digit numbers from 1-5, using number rhymes and songs.

We have also been looking at shapes in the environment.

Crickweb : Fish Tannk

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

Literacy
In phonics, we continued practising our letters and sounds in groups. We have been working hard on our initial sounds and blending three letter words through various games and activities. We have also been practising our rhyming words through various games and on the IWB games.

CAKE BAKE/Super Smoothie

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase1Menu.htm

RECEPTION

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 Jack and the Beanstalk. We have been very busy re-telling the story and discussing it. We have also been learning how to story sequence in the correct order and have been making Jack and the Beanstalk character masks. We have been designing and making A HUGE GIANT. We also were sorting out different beans according to their sizes on the Tuff Spot.

Literacy
In phonics – Ms. Niumai’s group have been recapping phase 2 phonics and have been learning letter sounds.

Ms. Helen’s group is looking at the ow and ou digraph

Ms. Vijaya’s group are learning /oo/ and /ar/ and the tricky words LOOK and DOWN.

We extended our phonic skills by writing descriptive sentences, and speech bubbles about: Jack, the giant, his mum and the bean seller.

Maths
In Maths this week, we have been recapping positional language within the story and also time using Bee-bots. We have also been using objects and flashcards to help us learn the positional language as well as using PowerPoint and games.

Early years have been super busy making decorations for our Family Event on Saturday. We  enjoyed making huge 2 giant clowns and circus party fans.

Looking forward to a lovely fun filled morning!

Hope to see you all!

Mental Health Week

This week all iCAN learners engaged in a positive body image awareness week. There were a number of afternoon activities like: I love my body graffiti wall, self appreciation sticks and love stones.

In Early Years we looked at different body types, skin colour and abilities; we tried to remember that our bodies might look different on the outside but they all look the same on the inside. Each learner made an ‘I am special’ book and gave themselves a compliment, such as: I love my hair because it’s shiny. We also started each day with a positive body affirmation such as: I am special, My body is right for me and I am healthy and strong.

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Learning Journey
This week we have been learning about Europe: United Kingdom’s animals. We used non-fiction books and video clips to extend our knowledge of animals in Europe such as the hedgehog, badger, puffin and red squirrel. 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 hedgehog, badger masks, a squirrel collage, and colouring and painting animals from around the world.

Literacy
This week in phonics, we continued recapping Phase 1, Aspects 1-7. We also continued practising body sounds, letters and sounds in groups. We have been working hard on our initial sounds and blending three letter words through various games and activities. We enjoyed mark- making with salt and glitter to practise writing our names.

Maths
This week in phonics, we continued recapping Phase 1, Aspects 1-7. We also continued practising body sounds, letters and sounds in groups. We have been working hard on our initial sounds and blending three letter words through various games and activities. We enjoyed mark- making with salt and glitter to practise writing our names.

RECEPTION

Learning Journey
The traditional tale for this week was Little Red Riding Hood. The learners enjoyed making food for grandma, fighting off the big bad wolf and writing Get Well Soon cards to Grandma. In the art area this week, they weaved baskets and used different junk materials to build new and stronger baskets for Little Red Riding Hood.

Maths
All learners started off the week by recapping on halving numbers. They are all becoming so confident! Thanks to the game What’s the time Mr Wolf we started to introduce time. The learners explored the clock and learnt the different parts, such as: face and hands. Next week we will continue to learn about time and setting the clock to ​O ‘clock hours.

Literacy
In phonics this week… Ms. Vijaya’s group covered the trigraph sound ure and used it to segment words. They also practised writing sentences using tricky words and stretching these sentences to make them longer.

Ms. Helen’s group looked at the sounds oa and igh. They recognised these sounds in both reading and writing words. They also covered the tricky words you and they.

Ms. Niumai’s group have been recapping all their tricky words and writing sentences using these words. They have also been blending, segmenting and reading sentences with more confidence.

Learning Through Play!

9/5/2019

ICP/NURSERY

Literacy
This week in phonics, we have been recapping Phase 1, Aspects 1-7. We continued practising body sounds and and our letters and sounds in groups. We have been working hard on our initial sounds and blending three letter words through various games and activities.

Maths
In maths we are continuing to develop our counting skills and number recognition. We used pegs, objects and pom poms to practise our skills. We have also been learning to recognise 2D shapes through cooperative structure games.

RECEPTION

Learning Journey
This week we have been looking at the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have been busy sorting sizes of bowls, chairs and beds from the Three Bears’ cottage and we enjoyed making porridge!

It was fun reading two other books relating to Goldilocks with a different version. Goldilocks and just one bear by Leigh Hodgkinson and A Chair for Baby Bear by Kaye Umansky.

MATHS
In maths this week we have been trying our best with halving. We have halved: different objects, as well as halving our class. We really enjoyed having Frooby the Dragon’s help with halving too.

LITERACY
In phonics – Ms. Vijaya’s group have been recapping Phase 2 phonics and have been learning the digraphs ng and ai.

Ms. Niumai ’s group are looking at Phase 2 letter sounds, and trying to read Phase 2 captions.

Ms. Helen’s group are looking at the trigraphs ear and air.

In literacy have been busy writing a sorry letter to the Bear and making Wanted posters for Goldilocks. We discussed and drew our exciting holiday news in our writing journal.

We had an ice cream party, with extra play time, as we had filled our two jars (resilient and risk takers.)

We will continue to work on our personal goal: THINKERS this learning block.

We have discussed the meaning of being a risk taker and have taken part in activities that allow us to take risks!

Learning Through Play!

1/5/2019

Child Led Conferences

Thank you so much for coming and for getting involved in your child’s learning.
 The children absolutely loved sharing their learning with you all.
All the learners did a great job at explaining and exploring their activities and we hope that you enjoyed it too!

Reception Assembly

On Thursday, the Reception learners were such risk takers in their first ever assembly! They showed off their brilliant communication skills and were fantastically cooperative when sharing their learning all about dinosaurs.  Ms Vijaya and Ms Helen are so proud of every one of them. The practise definitely paid off, as they all did a wonderful job in presenting their learning. We hope you all enjoyed watching your own little star on stage.

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Learning Journey
This week we have been learning about Asian and African animals. We used non-fiction books and video clips to extend our knowledge of animals. We had fun observing and exploring animals from the continents of Asia and Africa. We enjoyed making paper plate  jungle animals.

Literacy
In phonics we continued practising our letters and sounds in groups. We have been working hard on our initial sounds and blending three letter words through various games and activities. We have also been busy practising to write our name on sand, shaving foam and glitter.

In phonics, the younger learners have been recapping Phase 1, aspect 1-3. We focused on learning body sounds.

Maths
This week we continued using our super powers to add and take away; we have been learning these through songs, rhymes and games. We also continued counting and matching the correct quantity to its number. The learners have had fun using marbles, feathers and teddies to help them with the counting activity.

Reception

Learning Journey
Run, run as fast as you can you cant catch me I am the gingerbread man! Our traditional tale for this week was The Gingerbread Man. The learners enjoyed using spiced play dough to design and make their own ginger people and spices to practise their writing. As a yummy treat, after our assembly, the learners made, decorated and (of course) ate their own gingerbread men.

This week, both classes also started working in their team tables as part of their transition to Year 1. The learners will be working in these teams for some activities over the next few weeks. Each learner has their own colour and special job during these activities and they are showing great cooperation and adaptability.

Maths
Reception classes have been continuing to cover doubling this week, along with addition and subtraction. Following on from doubling, will be halving which they will begin next week. Whilst making our gingerbread men, the learners used this hands-on experience to explore weight and measurement.

Literacy
Ms. Niumai covered the ur ( as in burnt) and the ow ( as in town). They used these sounds to segment words, and then read some real and nonsense words. These learners also used the words up and big to write independent sentences.

Ms. Helen continued to learn the digraph sounds ee and ch this week.

Ms. Vijaya have also begun learning the digraph sounds sh and th. The learners are now practising to read and match words with these sounds in them.​

Learning Through Play!

25/4/2019

INTERNATIONAL DAY
On the 12th April  we celebrated our International Day!  We enjoyed learning all about different traditional  games from around the world.  The learners also had an opportunity to try amazing food in our international food court.

iCP/Nursery

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 an animal from each continent. We have also been exploring different Tuff Spot trays with animals from around the world.

Maths
This week we have been using our super powers to add and take away through songs, rhymes and games. The learners have been comparing how much different containers can hold, and using language related to capacity. We have also been using mathematical opposites such as: big or small, tall, short or long, and wide or narrow, through pictures and games on the interactive whiteboard.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

Literacy
In phonics we continued practising our letters and sounds in groups. We have been working hard on our initial sounds and blending three letter words through various games and activities. We have also been busy practising to write our name on sand, shaving foam and glitter.

Reception

Learning Journey
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. Guess who they were?
We have been looking at the story of The Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad wolf this week. We also read a different version of this traditional tale The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig. We have been very busy forming teams getting ready for Year One. We designed and worked as a team when building our houses. There was a house made of straw, a house made of wood and a house made of bricks for the pigs.

Which house do you think is the strongest?

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

Literacy
In phonics – Ms. Helen’s group has been recapping phase 3 phonics and tricky words.

Ms. Nuimai’s group is recapping all phase 2 sounds and tricky words done so far.

Ms. Vijaya’s group is recapping all phase 2 sounds and are learning /sh/ and /ch/ and tricky words done so far.

Maths
This week in maths we have been practising our number bond songs and getting props ready for our assembly.

RECEPTION ASSEMBLY IS ON THE 2ND MAY THURSDAY
AT 7.45AM IN THE HALL.

We have been practising really hard for our assembly and would love to share our learning with Reception families.

We hope to see you all there!

Learning through play!

10/4/2019

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Learning Journey
Exit point
What a fantastic way to end our unit on Transport. We had fun exploring rides on Cambodian public transport. We were resilient and fantastic risk takers riding on a cyclo, tuk tuk and modern tuk tuk.

What a 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.

Literacy
This week we have been practising our skills on segmenting and blending three letter words using games on letters and sounds programme. We enjoyed  feeding Metal Mike with picture cards. We were also practising to sound out initial sounds in words playing various games using our sandpit area.

We continued practising writing our names on sand and glitter. We made marks with wheels on paint and glitter.

Maths
This week in maths we have been learning to form numbers​ tracing using Montessori material sand paper numbers. We have also been continuing to count from 0 to 10 , 11 to 20 and beyond, using counters and cooperative learning structure games.

We have also been making transport with some common 2D shapes. We made a train, boat,rocket and a bus.

Reception

Learning Journey
Exit point
To end an exciting and action packed Dinosaur topic the reception learners took on the role of paleontologist and went on a dig to iCAN play. They used spades and rakes to look through the sand to find different sized dinosaur bones. It was hard working finding all those bones but by working as a team and showing great perseverance all the bones where found. Next came the tricky part- putting the bones together to make a full dinosaur skeleton. There was lots of discussion about which bones went where, whether this dinosaur was a herbivore or carnivore and whether dinosaurs had neck bones or not. Finally after moving the bones many times the learners made the full T-Rex skeleton. It was hard work being a paleontologist but with cooperation and adaptability the students completed their task.

To end our dinosaur unit the learners looked at what dinosaurs liked to eat- plants or meat. We looked at different dinosaur teeth and tried to decide if it was a herbivore or a carnivore. Sharp teeth were needed to eat meat but short flat teeth were needed to munch on plants. The learners enjoyed working at, and visiting the dino cafe where they ordered for a herbivore or carnivore dinosaur. What a great unit of learning and we hope your little learner will be able to share all their new dinosaur knowledge with you at home.

Literacy
Ms. Niumai’s group have been revising all their high frequency words this week and recapping on the double digraphs ‘or’ and ‘ar’.

Ms. Helen’s and Ms. Vijaya’s group combined this week and recapped all their single letter sounds. After some confusion over v and w they revisited those sounds and segmented some words using either v or w.

Please note that blue reading bags will stay in school over the holidays.

Maths
Doubles, doubles I can add doubles – has been a popular songs in reception this week as we continue to work on our doubling numbers skills. After reading the story – How big were the dinosaurs? the reception learners went to the rooftop court and measured out how long a diplodocus , a stegosaurus and a triceratops was. They discovered that a diplodocus was the longest at 26 meters and a triceratops was the shortest at 9 meters.

Learning through play!

4/4/2019

iCANPLAY/Nursery

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.

Reception

Learning Journey
This week we have been learning all about the Velociraptors. We looked at non-fiction books and used the internet to find out lots of information about the Velociraptors. We then used this information to write a fact file on it. We worked cooperatively to make a large volcano using clay and papermachie. The children loved sharing their learning from this learning block and a fantastic way to end our Dinosaur topic, exploding the volcano eruption. For Expressive Art and Design, we stuck coloured templates of the feet and necks to a balloon to create 3D shaped dinosaurs. We have been looking at lots of new vocabulary linked with dinosaurs and paleontologists. We also coloured our paleontologist badges in preparation for our exit point, digging for the T-Rex bones in iCANPLAY, next Monday.

We have been practising some songs about the Triceratops and Stegosaurus. We worked collectively as a group, incorporating all our Personal Goals when setting up and tidying up our outdoor area. We are also working very hard to be risk takers and remembering to be respectful to each other.

Literacy
Ms.Niumai’s group have been revising phase 2 phonics sounds.
Ms.Helen’s group have been recapping all tricky words of phase 2 and digraph qu/. This group also practising blending with the sounds learned so far.
Ms.Vijaya’s roup have been revising all phase three sounds and digraph ‘oo’ and ‘ igh’.We enjoyed writing sentences with digraphs learned so far with finger space and full stop. We enjoyed making oatmeal cookies and discovered many digraphs in the ingredients which we used such as ‘ai‘in raisins, ‘oa’ in oatmeal,‘oo’in cookies, ‘ar’in sugar and ‘er’ in butter. Later we enjoyed eating them before our reflection time.

Maths
This week in maths we continued learning to do doubling of numbers up to 10 and using different small world toys to count. We enjoyed learning the doubling song. It is fun!

We are looking forward to celebrating INTERNATIONAL DAY on Friday 12th April! It would be great to see as many learners as possible dressed up representing their own countries on the day!

Learning through play!

28/3/2019

Thank you to all the families who joined us in iCAN PLAY and Nursery for our COME AND PLAY DAY and Reception for Family Learning Day! It was great to see so many families joining in with their child’s learning.

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Learning through play!

21/3/2019

It was a wonderful Wednesday afternoon sharing maths skills with all the learners in  primary.  Early years were very excited and did an absolutely great job selling the fruit kebabs, pasta necklaces and bracelets.  The Reception learners loved having a chance to buy products made by other classes in primary!

Our focus was making repeated patterns.

iCANPLAY and Nursery learners had so much fun counting and choosing their own pasta colours to create beautiful necklaces and bracelets by repeating the patterns.

Reception learners worked very hard to conduct a survey about people’s favourite fruit kebab choices for the Maths Day sale. Later we plotted our bar graph on the survey and finalised which 4 fruits we need to buy to make the fruit kebab. We also plotted our Kebab in patterns like ABAB, ABCD, ABAB and ABCDE. working together to make our poster for the Math Day.

For International Happiness Day we have been thinking of what makes us happy and how we can make others happy.

We also drew pictures and wrote sentences to record what makes us happy.

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Reception

Learning Journey
This week we have been learning all about the stegosaurus. We looked at non-fiction books and used the internet to find out lots of information about the stegosaurus. We then used this information to write a fact file. We worked cooperatively to make a large stegosaurus using different textures. We have also been practising some songs about the triceratops and stegosaurus. We worked collectively as a group, incorporating all our personal goals, to set up our Dinosaurs role play area in our classroom. We stuck pasta for bones onto dinosaurs and have been looking at lots of new vocabulary linked with dinosaurs and paleontologists.

Literacy
In phonics – Ms. Niumai’s group have been introducing phase 3 phonics.
Ms. Helen’s group are looking at phase 2 new tricky words and continue with phase 3 sounds.
Ms. Vijaya’s group are blending phase 3 sentences and continue with diagraphs ‘Sh’ and ‘ai’ words.

We have been practising using wow words in sentences for Big Talk. In reading we made great progress and able to read simple sentences using CVC words with learning facilitators and discussing stories, which are building our comprehension and understanding skills.

We have been busy drawing dinosaurs and writing the names of them in our writing journals this week.

We will be working on our personal goal: RESPECTFUL. We have discussed the meaning of being respectful and how we can work on being respectful at school and at home.

NEXT WEEK…

Learning through play!

14/3/2019

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Learning Journey

EXIT POINT
This week have been a very busy week. For our Exit point on Houses and Homes we had fun walking to big school from the back gate. On our way to big school we had fun exploring and looking at houses built with bricks and wood and also big buildings, small houses etc…… We discussed which material they have used building their houses. Is it strong? We ended our topic, Houses and Homes reflecting on our learning, looking at photos and work we have been doing throughout the weeks.

ENTRY POINT
On Wednesday we had our Entry Point introducing our new topic TRANSPORT! We brought in our own bicycles and scooters to share and rode at iCANPLAY. We made a 3D airplane and a bus and had fun taking photos with it. We used non-fiction books and video clips to find out more information on transport people use around the world.

Our role play area for this learning block is TRAVEL AGENTS! We will be building it slowly throughout the weeks.

Literacy
This week for older learners in phonics we have been revising initial sounds of s,a,t,i,p,n and blending and segmenting three letter words. Younger learners have been exploring objects and learning the words and identifying the name of the instruments being played.

We have also been drawing and painting our favourite transport. We focus on the sounds that begings for each transport such as….. b for boat, s for submarine, t for truck etc………

Maths
This week in maths we have been learning to count and recognise numbers through various games and activities. We have also been busy sorting different transport into air, water and land.

RECEPTION

Learning Journey
This week the reception learners focused on the three horned Triceratops. They looked at how it protects itself with its horns and frill around its head. Some learners made a large collage while others wrote fact files about the dinosaur. There was great excitement when the learners tried to get the dinosaurs out of the frozen eggs. They learnt that with the help of hammer and salted water they could easily recuse the dinosaurs.

To put into perspective the size of these pre-historic animals we estimated how many of the children’s foot prints could fit into one of the triceratops footprints. Some guessed 9,000 while others guessed just 5. After tracing, cutting and sticking their footprints into the large print they counted that 36 was the actual number.

Junk modeling and dinosaur foot print painting finished off the week.

Literacy
Learning Facilitators in Reception have noticed a big improvement in all the learners reading and want to take this chance to thank you all for your support at home. It so wonderful to see the learners building in skill and confidence with their reading.

This week in Group 1 have continued to focus on double letter sounds such as ch, the and ee.

Group 2 learnt the new sounds j and v this week and displayed their increasing blending and segmenting skills with words such as jam, Jack, van and vet.

Group 3 have made great improvements in their blending skills and have been building on this in a variety of activities.

Maths
Leading on from subtraction with objects last week we continued building on this skill to include subtraction using a number line. We will be practising this new skill over the next few week.s. The learners have also been busy getting ready for maths day next Wednesday. They have been surveying the other primary learners, making bar graphs and recapping on 3D shapes.

I’ve been excellent in using my cooperation skills in all of my learning this week! Great, keep it up!	I have been showing great adaptability during my first week at iCAN. Great, keep it up!	I have been working resiliently with blending and segmenting sounds in my phonics. Keep it up!

Learning through play!

6/3/2019

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Maths
This week in Maths we have been exploring and learning 2D SHAPES using cooperative learning structures. We played corners and enjoyed making different shapes in groups using wooden blocks.

We had fun counting and recogninsing numbers through number rhymes, songs and games.

RECEPTION

Learning Journey

ENTRY POINT
In Learning block 5 we’re learning about DINOSAURS! This week we had an exciting Entry Point. On Thursday 7th March Reception visited the Jurassic Kingdom Dinosaur Park. This was a fantastic way to start our new topic and test our knowledge of dinosaur as we encountered gigantic, realistic dinosaur models around the park. Lots of us got a fright when the models began to move and ROAR loudly in our ears. We were lucky enough to take a ride on some dinosaurs and also encounter the different dinosaurs in various environment areas. We enjoyed assembling the giant dinosaur puzzles in the park in a group working on our personal goals. We had a lot fun, it was a great way to begin our topic; Dinosaur. Before our trip to Dinosaur Park our learners were very excited as we had a brainstorming session about dinosaur in the beginning of this week and were excited to discuss about paleontologists and what they do. The learners were happily digging for dinosaur bones in the tuff spot. Everyone was very resilient, adaptable and worked cooperatively to find all of the dinosaur bones.

DINOSAUR PARK ADVENTURES.

I have been fantastic, super resilient counting numbers 1-10. Excellent, keep it up!	I have been working hard so hard on my phonics and reading skills. Great, keep it up!	I have been resiliently with my blending and segmenting sounds to form CVC words. Keep up the good work!

Book Week

27/2/2019

WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER FUN FILLED LEARNING BLOCK 5!

It has been a fun, busy week sharing stories of a super fantastic Author JULIA DONALDSON.

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Learning Journey
We enjoyed sharing the story THE GRUFFALO. We painted and made collages of the characters in the story to decorate out class door. We discussed the animals in the Gruffalo are all very different. How are we different from our friends? We continued thinking of differences between us. We enjoyed making snake scramble and it was very yummy. We also had fun making Gruffalo character puppets and had fun role playing the story. We enjoyed moving like different animals from the Gruffalo stories and looking at rhyming words.

Maths
This week in Maths the learners enjoyed counting how many friends the Gruffalo has? We sorted nuts into different sizes and practised writing numbers on the shaving foam.

Reception

Learning Journey
What a fun and busy week it has been.We decided that for book week we would focus on Julia Donaldson books. Each day we read a different story and completed activities based on them. We read The Scarecrows Wedding, Cave Baby, The Smartest Giant in Town, Charlie Cooks Favorite Book and Night monkey/Day Monkey. We started the week off by designing and making our door decorations. The learners coloured, cut and wrote lines of the story. Can you guess the stories we used to decorate? Tuesday we had bedtimes stories, Wednesday reading in the garden, Thursday listening to stories in different languages and books swap and Friday was the best of all – costume parade. Atop of all those activities the learners where busy in the classrooms designing clothes, making cave paintings, looking at rhyming words and sharing their favorite books with their peers.

Maths
This week the learners have been using different skills to add two numbers together. They tried counting on their fingers, using a number line and counting with blocks. They are improving their skills daily and will move onto subtraction next week.

Literacy
This week in phonics…… Group 1 have been revising their ch sound and practicing writing sentences using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Group 2 Have been practicing their blending and segmenting skills as well as working on tricky words.
Group 3 moved onto sound set 2 and blending words using these sounds.

Congratulations to our little FIREFIGHTER in ICP for winning the best costume from EYS!

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14/2/2019

CREATIVE ARTS WEEK!

Early Years had a fantastic, energetic start introducing our Creative arts week. Our theme was CIRCUS . We had fun exploring acrobatic games, making clowns with paper plate and pom poms and making yummy clown ice cream at iCANPLAY. We also had talented Mr. Serji balloon modeling with our learners.

iCANPLAY and Nursery learners had fun acting out and dressing up as clowns and dancing with our wonderful Ms. Julie!

Early Years had fun painting their faces with our Magnificent Ms. Maggie!

Reception learners had a super energetic morning visiting fly Phonm Penh!

Reception Minibeasts Exit Point!

To end our wonderful minibeasts topic the learners took a trip to ISPP’s butterfly garden on Monday. They where amazed to see so many butterflies flying around the enclosure, noticing their colour, pattern and symmetrical wings. They even got to see some very hungry caterpillars munching on leaves. As they strolled through the garden they talked about the different stages of the butterfly life cycle and how the butterfly uses its long tongue to drink the juice (nectar) from the flowers. They linked their trip to their knowledge of bees as they passed by some flowers with lots of pollen and commented on how bees use the pollen to make honey. The learners enjoyed using technology , iPad, to document what they saw. It was tricky trying to take pictures of the fast flying butterflies. Before leaving ISPP they again documented their visit and knowledge by drawing what they had seen and the different stages of the butterfly life cycle.

​The reception learners really enjoyed our minibeasts topic and have so much knowledge about bees, ladybugs, butterflies and spiders. We hope they share this knowledge with you at home and continue to build on their curiosity about minibeasts.

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6/2/2019

Creative Arts Week is coming up Next week, WEDNESDAY,THURSDAY and FRIDAY!
It’s going to be fantastic exciting week and great activities lined up such as Balloon shapes and magic tricks, Jumping Bean performance and carnival games. Reception will also be going to Fly Phnom Penh on Friday!

Our theme for Creative arts week is………..

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Learning Journey
We extended our knowledge on different types of houses and homes through looking at pictures and video clips. We were thinking of questions such as………..

What kind of home do you live in? What kind of home would you like to live in and why? Can you think of any other kinds of home?

We made large houses of the three little pigs and discussed the materials they used to build their house. We made an igloo with cotton and discussed that in some very cold places people live in homes made of ice. We also made buildings using wooden blocks and lego. We used a cooperative learning structure CORNERS to find out more information on different types houses and homes in groups.

Learning Journey
In Literacy, we have been sharing the story The Three Little Pigs. We continued to practise writing our names using different materials. In phonics we have been practising rhyming words and initial sounds in words.

Maths
This week we made houses with 2D shapes. We looked at similarities and shapes of the houses the Three little pigs built. We also practised writing numbers on the sand. We enjoyed making fingerprints on the numbers and sang ‘1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive’ number song.

Reception

Learning Journey
This week we have been continuing our topic of “Minibeasts” by learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. We enjoyed looking at powerpoints, songs, stories and pictures of butterfly. We have been busy making the life cycle of a butterfly using pastas, lentils and dry twigs. We also used our phonic skills to write the initial sounds of the different stages of the life cycle. We shared the story and later watched the video of the very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle. Later we watched the video of the life cycle of a monarch butterfly. We loved drawing the story map of ‘the hungry caterpillar. We enjoyed doing an activity trying to recollect what the caterpillar ate during the different days of the week.

On Monday the 11th January we will be going on a field trip, visiting ISPP’s Butterfly Garden. Please Kindly apply sunscreen lotion and dress your child comfortable clothes and trainers to the trip.

Maths
In Maths this week, we have learning about addition and number bonds of 5’s and 10’s using number line. We also created symmetry patterns on butterflies using paint and colour pencils.

Literacy
This week in phonics, we are now in groups and are working on the phase that suits our needs.

Ms. Nuimai’s group is working on phase 2 recapping the sounds.

Ms. Helen’s group is working on Phase 3 sounds.

Ms. Vijaya’s group is working on blending and segmenting phase 2 sounds

​We have been practising using wow words in sentences for Big Talk

​We are still working very hard on our personal goal: PRINCIPLED. We have discussed the meaning of PRINCIPLED and take responsibilities for our actions, be honest and make good choice.

I have a positive attitude and always try my best at everything I do. Fantastic, keep it up!	I have been a great thinker when learning about number bonds 5’s and 10’s! Fantastic, keep it up!	I have been working resiliently with number bonds of 5’s and 10’s with a number line and writing them. Fantastic, keep t up!

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30/1/2019

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Learning Journey
Over the last few weeks we have been exploring and learning all about seasons around the world! We looked at video clips about changes in the weather and seasonal patterns. For our EXIT point we drew seasonal patterns. We also shared the story The Tiny Seed.

On Wednesday we had our ENTRY POINT for our new learning topic ‘HOUSES and HOMES’. We shared the story ‘THE THREE LITTLE PIGS’ and discussed the different houses the pigs built. The learners enjoyed watching the teacher’s role playing the story THREE LITTLE PIGS.

For the next few weeks we will be looking at homes and houses built around the world!

Literacy
This week in phonics we have been revisiting initial sounds of s,a,t,i,p,n and blending and segmenting three letter words.

We have also been practising to write our names on sand and glitter.

Maths
In maths, we enjoyed making different patterns with teddies, seasonal patterns, Lego and animals. We enjoyed playing pattern games on the interactive whiteboard.

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Reception

Learning Journey
This week the learners were busy bees as we explored the important work bees do. They learnt about how bees collect pollen and nectar to make honey, the different jobs bees have (queen, dorm and worker) and even how bees are important for our fruit and flowers. The learners particularly enjoyed getting a closer look at homey comb, commercial honey and organic honey- it lead to a sticky and yummy exploration session.

Maths
Following on from our one more last week the learners have been using this new skill to add two groups of objects together and find the total number. They have been using the plus and equals signs when writing their own sums and thinking of different ways to make 5 ( number bounds to 5).
While learning about the bee hive the learners came across the hexagon shape, they explored how the shape fits together perfectly without any gaps.

I have been a super thinker during my bumble bee learning and sharing my knowledge with others. Great, keep it up!	I have been working resiliently with addition of 2 numbers and writing it down in a number sentence. Fantastic work, keep it up!	I’ve been excellent in using my cooperation skills in all of my learning this week! Great, keep it up

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22/1/2019

100th Day at school!

Early Years had a fantastic time Celebrating 100 days at school on Friday! We all enjoyed doing a 100th Day fitness fun in the hall and together we made 100 using our bodies. We had fun dressing up our decorated shirts with 100 things and sharing healthy snacks brought from home.

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Learning Journey
This week we have been learning all about winter. We have been looking at video clips on changes of weather patterns and activities people do during the winter. We made snowman writing , hand print snowflakes and winter tree with twigs.

Literacy
his week we have been busy in phonics finding words that begin with the letter sound s,a,t,p,i,n. We played various letter sound games such as I spy with my little eyes and silly soup

Maths
This week we have been practising forming numbers with various resources. We have been working hard playing games on number recognition using the interactive whiteboard. We also enjoyed measuring snowman with coloured cubes.

Reception

Learning Journey
As part of learning we are celebrating the 100th days of school. The celebration ran for one week and culminate on Friday when we brought 100 healthy snacks to share with other friends. The children had real fun celebrating various arts and creative ideas to celebrate the 100 days in school.
We skip counting of hundreds by making and counting 10 sets of ten poms-poms, Popsicle sticks, insects, finger prints .We created our own 100 day T-shirt to wear for the celebration on Friday 25th of January.

Literacy
This week in phonics, we are now in groups and are working on the phase that suits our learners’ needs. Ms. Helen’s group is working on phase 3 and Ms. Vijaya’s group is working on blending CVC words. Ms. Nuimai’s group is recapping s/a/t/p/i/n. We have been practising using wow words in sentences for Big Talk.

We are excited to take home our blue bags with our reading books with words from school so we can practise our reading at home.

Maths
This week the learners continued with learning one more- the first steps in addition. They have been given a set numbers and asked to find one more. Such as 4 cubes, add one more, now you have 5 cubes. They have been exploring this idea using different materials such as human bodies, fingers, pens, cubes and bears. They continued to work on this in this week using the mathematical symbol of + and = in a number statement.

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17/1/2019

EARLY YEARS SPORTS DAY!

The Learners in Early Years were absolute sports stars and were brilliant at showing the fantastic skills that they had been learning in PE. The learners also truly showed their resilience and cooperation skills during the events. It was great to see so many families come along to cheer for the teams. Thank you for your support.

iCAN PLAY/Nursery

This week we have been busy learning about Autumn. We looked at video clips and non-fiction books about activities people do in Autumn. We also looked at the weather patterns and leaves changing colours. In our tuff spot tray we had natural  leaves and information books and we  used a magnifying glass to look closely at the leaf patterns and the colours. 

Maths

In maths we have been practising arranging numbers from 1-10 using the Lego blocks and doing the structure game ‘line up‘. We also compared different sizes of leaves and measured them with cubes.

Literacy

In phonics this week, we continued to explore rhyming words. We have also been practising tuning into different sounds we hear in our environment. We had fun making marks on leaves.

Reception

Learning Journey

Red with black spots has been the theme for this week- that’s right, Ladybirds. These small, colorful beetles have led to many fun activities such as making rock ladybirds, potato stamping, ladybird spot counting and much more. The learners are still enjoying the campsite and the tent has become a class favorite. We have also been looking at the science part of ladybirds such as their life circle, body parts and how they protect themselves from being eaten. This week the learners enjoyed building houses out of Lego, learning about caring for minibeasts , what to do when you get lost and stranger danger.

Literacy

This week we have been assessing the learners on their phonics knowledge and skills, We  separated them into three groups. This will help us support the needs of each group and ensure the learners feel confident in all areas of phonics. The areas they will be covering are new sounds like j and v, blending skills and sounds set 1/2 (s,a,t,i,p,n,m,o,g,d,ck)

Maths

This week the learners have been looking at one more- the first steps in addition. They have been given a set numbers and asked to find one more. such as 4 cubes, add one more, now you have 5 cubes. They have been exploring this idea using different materials such as human bodies, fingers, pens, cubes and bears. They will continue to work on this next week before learning addition with a variety of numbers. 

On Friday 25th we will be celebrating our 100th day in school!
please check your emails for more information.

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11/1/2019

Welcome back to another exciting fun filled learning block 4!

Early Years Sports Day will take place next Friday, 18th January. Friday! Please come and join us at 8 am in iCAN at our roof top court.

Family Kite Flying!

Come and join the iCAN team on Saturday 19th January Olympic stadium (on the heill, near the pool) 8-10am.

Learning Journey
This week we have been looking at summer. We looked closely at the changes in weather patterns and activities people enjoy around the world during summer time. We enjoyed making  a summer collage, cutting pictures of summer activities people do around the world. We also enjoyed threading sun patterns and made ice-cream decorating it with shapes. We had fun making sandcastles and sunglasses. We also made sunflowers with paper plates. 

iCANPLAY/Nursery

Maths
In maths we have been recapping learning about more and less. We enjoyed playing mucky monsters on the Interactive whiteboard.

Mucky Monsters
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Literacy
In phonics we have been playing mix-pair-share using rhyming words. We have also been practising Phase 1 aspect 4- rhythm and rhyme and aspect 5- alliteration through letters and sounds games and activities. We enjoy playing games listening to the initial sounds of our names and objects.

Reception

Learning Journey
We had a happy and fun welcome first week back by starting Learning Block 4 with our new topic of MINIBEASTS. We had fun trying to walk through a big spider web and a thick wall of tall trees . We are investigating what mini-beasts are this week and we really enjoyed going on a mini-beasts hunt around our garden. We looked all around the school and garden with magnifying glasses and we took pictures of all the mini-beasts that we found. We were surprised to see so many insects and had a discussion about them after the adventure. We enjoyed making different minibeasts masks and enjoyed playing with the minibeasts in the slime. We also made binoculars using toilet rolls for our minibeasts hunt. We had great fun learning the different movements of the minibeasts. We used insect stencils to create colourful pictures and made mini-beasts using junk materials.

We will be working on our new personal goal: PRINCIPLED. We have discussed the meaning of PRINCIPLED and take responsibilities for our actions, be honest and make good choices.

Maths
In Maths this week, we have been recapping ordinal numbers and have been matching flowers to the correct number as well as ordering leaves and insects.

Literacy
This week we have been recapping all of phase 2 letter sounds and tricky words. We have been practising using WOW words in sentences for Big Talk and we have been trying to read words in our guided reading lessons with the big books. We were excited to discuss and draw our holidays and have been looking at names and pictures of different mini-beasts and have been trying to write their initial sounds. We drew our favourite mini-beasts in our journals too!