Topic

‘Abracadabra’

‘Alakazamakazoo’ This week our theme has

been Magic!

‘Who makes magic and uses spells?’ Some of

the responses we received were; Wizards,

Witches, Fairies, Magicians and our Dads!

We investigated magic lamps: how they work

and what they do? We discussed whether or

not genies really live in lamps.

We looked at spells and even made

our own class cauldron. We had lots of

fun getting messy making spells and

potions especially making magic

bubbles. We also made some fairy

wands.

Numeracy Capacity and Measuring have

been our focus in Numeracy this

week. We have

looked at various sized

pots and containers

and investigated

which holds more

liquid and which holds less. We

were surprised to find that

sometimes a tall, thin container can

hold the same amount as a short

fat one.

We looked at recipes

for magic potions and

discussed the amounts

of each ingredient that

was added to the

potion. We made up our

own potions and

carefully measured out

what we needed either by

counting the ingredients or

measuring liquids.

News From FS1 Cairo English School Early Years Department

Volume 2, Issue 4, 2nd February 2017

ARABIC أعزائي أولياء األمورـ بعد التحية :

خالل هذا األسبوع: .قمنا بعمل مراجعة عامة على ما سبق دراسته من حروف

تعرف األطفال على شكل وصوت حرف ) ض ( من خالل قصة

ضابط -وقاموا باستخراج الكلمات التي تبدأ بالحرف مثل ) ضفدع

ضبع ـ َضوء (. -ضرس -

.قام األطفال بعمل نشاط ) ض( من خالل تشكيل الضفدع

تدرب األطفال على كتابة حرف ) ض( من خالل تتبع النقاط

داخل الكتاب المدرسي.مرسل مع الطفل ورق عمل للتأكيد على حرف ) ض ( الواجب :

وبعض الحروف األخرى.

Literacy Our focussed book this week has

been The Magic Blanket. In the

story, the children use their

blanket to pretend they were

visiting different places. We used

our class carpet as a magic

carpet and used our imagination to talk about

what we had seen on our magic carpet ride.

We needed to think of some magical rhyming

words to make our carpet fly.

In Phonics we recapped sounds learned so far

and introduced two new sounds. We looked at

simple words in, is, it and at and learned

how to break these words down into

sounds. ض

Reminder - Next week we visit the Puppet

workshop. If you haven’t booked your child

onto this trip please do so as soon as you

can by sending the permission slip and

required payment into class. Thank you!

FS1K having lots of fun making potions in the

sand and water play for our magical

theme...

FS1 Homework

2nd February 2017

Name: ___________________________

Numeracy Activity:

Watch the attached clip below with your child. It is a funny

little song about making a witch’s potion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3foTIHscfzs

Now help your child to make a potion or spell. Talk about what type of potion/spell you are

going to make and what will it be used for. There are lots of items you can use at home as yucky

witchy ingredients. For example, you could use things like: marbles for eye of newt, string for

spider’s legs, pieces of material for bats wings, there are many things you could use and don't

forget you can also use flour, pasta, mud, sand, rice, coloured water.

Pay attention to measuring the ingredients for example:

2 eyes of newt

3 spoonfuls of rice

2 cups of magical moon water

On the attached sheet help your child to draw or write the recipe for the potion/spell that you

have made together.

Talk Homework:

Look at the picture you received for ‘Talk Homework’ you received for the “Let’s Pretend”…

Can you see any magical people like Fairies, Wizards or Witches in the picture? Do you think they

are hiding? Lets talk about them: (Please write your child’s responses on the reverse of this page).

Questions to ask your child:

Can you see the castle? Do you think the Fairies are hiding in here? How many do you think

there are in the towers?

Can you see the yellow house? Who is hiding in here?

In the picture the children are having a party, do you think a magician is coming to do

some tricks? What type of tricks so you think he will do?

Do you like to watch tricks? What is your favourite trick? Why is this your favourite?

Can you do any tricks? What is the trick that you can do?

What did your child enjoy?

What does your child need more practice doing?

Remember: You should be guided by the pace at which your child wants to go.

If interest is being lost, leave the activities for a while and then come back to them later.

Do remember to give lots of praise and encouragement.

Name

Potion Name

Ingredients