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º 16
24.01.2020
Dates for your diary:
This week we have been…
• Wednesday 29th January: Phonics Presentation. 15:30.
• Reviewing our winter vocabulary – we use it every day
• Friday 14th February: Violin Open Class.
when we are getting ready to go outside.
o Reception H: 11:00.
• We have been celebrating Chinese New Year, we will
Reception G: 11:30.
continue celebrating next week.
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• 17th to 21st February (incl.): Half Term. School Closed. • We have been reading our storybook “The Runaway
Wok”. We created a story map and have been
practising retelling the story using actions – please
Please remember... find a photo attached to practise this at home.
• Library books can be kept for one week, they should be returned on • We watched a video about Chinese New Year and
Mondays. talked about all the special ways to celebrate it and
• Your child wants to write their name! Please help them to learn how its origin.
to do this. • We have been introduced to number stories 1-5. We
• See link to menu which has information regarding daily meals and are trying really hard to understand them.
snacks: http://compass-group.es/colegio-britanico/ • We are playing lots of addition games e.g. board
games, addition monster.

Activities to try at home

• Discuss winter – the clothes we wear, the temperature and
Next week we will:
the wind. We have a weather station in school and the
• Continue celebrating Chinese New Year.
children love looking at it and finding out more about the
• We will create our own Chinese restaurant for our role
weather.
play areas and continue to extend our learning about this
• Discuss different countries around the world and locate
celebration.
them on a map. • We will also continue to familiarise ourselves with number
• Try some Chinese food in order to celebrate Chinese New
bonds.
Year!