Exploring Emotions in Early Years

This week, our focus has been on children’s mental health, creating lots of engaging activities to help the children understand and express their emotions. It’s been wonderful to see how much they already know about feelings and to build on that by exploring different strategies to help them recognise that all emotions are important—they make us who we are! We also enjoyed storytelling, using both familiar tales and our own creations to demonstrate different ways to manage feelings.

Although this has been a special focus this week, supporting children’s emotional well-being is something we do every day in early years. We encourage them to talk about their feelings and remind them that it’s okay not to be brave all the time. It’s okay to feel sad, frustrated, or even angry—what matters is how we understand and manage these emotions.

By creating a space where children feel safe to express themselves, we’re helping them develop the tools they need for a lifetime of emotional resilience. 😟😠😢😕😏😆😃

Phonics

In phonics, we have been revisiting Phase 2 and 3 letter sounds and the tricky words. Please keep practising the sounds at home until your child can read each one fluently.

For practice videos go to Little Wandle website and choose the section for parents.

Please use the link below to access the videos of the letter sound pronunciations.

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/ 

Thank you for your continuous support. 

Maths 

In maths we have been exploring odd and even numbers and double quantities.

Next week is half term and we are all looking forward to a rest. I hope you all have a good break and we look forward to seeing you after the holidays.

Mrs Sheehan

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