FS1 Continuing Student Learning Wednesday 8th September

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We hope you’ve had a nice time looking through your homes this week! As we’ve learned about homes, we found out that even though houses around the world can be very different, there is always a special room or space for preparing and cooking food. This special space is called the kitchen! 

Today you might like to have a really good exploration of your kitchen. Where is it in your house? Are there windows and doors in your kitchen? What kinds of things do you keep there? How does the kitchen help you and your family?

After some exploration, give your kitchen a try! Why not have a go preparing and cooking lunch or an afternoon snack with your family? You can choose a favourite family recipe or try something new using the ingredients in your cupboards and refrigerator!

If you need some inspiration, check out some of the recipes below!

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Research into communication, language and emotional development tells us that young children need opportunities to talk about and share their interests and family life with others. Once back in school, this book will help to create a sense of belonging and will encourage children to talk to their friends and teachers.

This book will come home from school many times throughout the year to be updated.

What we would like you to do now:

As this is a prompt for talk, we would like you to help your child to include some of the following:

• Photographs of family members and other special people
• Particular interests and hobbies
• Holiday photographs
• Special events (cultural or family celebrations)
• Pets
• Favourite foods
• Favourite music, TV shows, toys, characters etc..

You do not need to print everything. Children can draw their favourite things or cut out snippets from magazines or leaflets. Your child can decorate the front cover of their book anyway they wish!

We suggest, that at this time, you don’t use more than 4 or 5 pages. This will ensure there is plenty of space for your child to add and reflect upon their experiences and interests throughout the rest of the school year.

Enjoy starting to create this special book together!

About Our Learning Packs

Dear Parents

As Patana’s Continuing Student Learning (CSL) period continues into a new term, children and teachers will be learning what makes great lessons online and honing their skills on the technology; however, for our youngest students, screen time is not always so easy. Whilst our youngest students love working with their teacher onscreen, they also benefit immensely from hands-on, practical and creative tasks that aren’t always easy to deliver online.

If there’s anything our fantastic Foundation Team enjoy, it’s a challenge. So, over the last week, our team put together these fantastic home learning packs to bring Continuing Student Learning to life. Our home learning packs enhance our students’ learning and supplement our teachers’ home learning activities. They include activities that cover all aspects of the Early Years Seven Learning Areas. You can visit our CSL blog which includes some home learning ideas for our open ended resources, learning opportunities and key questions. The bags provide a fun, practical and creative learning opportunity for all of our Foundation Stage students!

Over the course of a 3 week period, the bags will contain materials that can support the learning from home. Your child’s class teacher will be in touch via email with instructions of how to access the blog for some inspiration. We kindly ask that you take great care of all the resources provided and return these to school at the end of the 3 week period prior to picking up your new bag.

We hope you enjoy exploring these packs alongside our CSL provision and as always, please do contact your child’s class teacher if you have any queries regarding the learning.

Kind Regards,

The Foundation Stage Team