Winter
Published 11/01/24, by Jo Macrae
This week we have been thinking about animals that live in cold places.
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Read MoreHappy New Year!
Published 11/01/24, by Jo MacraeThis week we have been focusing on being tidy and following the school rules. We have been checking that we hang our coats up carefully, putting any hats or gloves either in our coat pockets, hood or the box in the classroom. We have also made sure that we put our bookbags away neatly in their boxes.
We have a saying in school:
Choose it. Use it. Put it away.
We have been making sure everyone does this, both inside and out.
In phonics we have learnt 3 more sounds - ai, ee and igh . Please can you help us spot these in books and signs at home.
In maths we have been practising reading our numbers to 10 and putting them in the correct order.
Read MoreMerry Christmas
Published 15/12/23, by Jo MacraeWe have made it to the end of our first term!
Read MoreChristmas Excitement
Published 07/12/23, by Jo MacraeThis week we have continued making decorations and the classroom is now looking very festive.
Read MoreAdvent
Published 01/12/23, by Jo MacraeThis week has been much colder, so we are choosing to do our learning indoors a lot more. Some of us still enjoy being outside lots, so please send us with hats or gloves (named).
Read MoreOwls
Published 17/11/23, by Jo MacraeThese past 2 weeks we have been linking our learning to the book "Owl Babies". We know the story really well now and enjoy joining in with it. You can listen at home using the link below:
We have made owl pictures, written about owls and learnt lots of interesting facts.
We are enjoying our times in the Woodland, even with the weather getting colder and damper. We have been exploring and making things from natural resources.
In phonics we have now learnt all the single letters of the alphabet and started learning digraphs (2 letter one sound). We have learnt qu, ch, th and sh.
In maths we have been comparing numbers to see which is more and which is less.
Read MoreWhat a busy week!
Published 09/11/23, by Jo MacraeWe started the week with our first Muddy Monday. The weather was kind to us and we had great fun. We did mud painting, making leaf fairies and finding different colours in the woodland area.
Read MoreFireworks and Patterns
Published 03/11/23, by Jo MacraeThis week our learning has been based around fireworks.
Read MoreBread
Published 20/10/23, by Jo MacraeThis week we have been doing our learning through the story of The Little Red Hen. On Wednesday we all had a go at making bread and learnt about the ingredients needed and the methods to create the dough. We all took our bread home to try and lots of us returned saying we enjoyed eating it.
In phonics, the adults were seeing how many sounds we knew, and they were really impressed with all the sounds we could remember. Lots of us are now using these sounds to blend and read short words.
Thank you to everyone who came to watch our harvest worship, we loved seeing you all, even though it was quite daunting at first. We really enjoyed singing the songs to you.
It's amazing we have finished our first half term, and although we are all quite tired, the adults are impressed with how well we have settled into school.
We hope you have a good half term break.
Read MorePumpkins
Published 13/10/23, by Jo MacraeThis week we have been exploring different autumn vegetables. We had great fun washing then scooping out the seeds from pumpkins and using the pumpkins to make potions in. We also used vegetables to print with, printing with broccoli to make tree pictures.
We have been practising our autumn songs ready for the Harvest festival next week.
The adults have noticed how we are all expanding the range of children we chose to play and learn with, which is fantastic to see. We are able to turn take and share equipment with much less support from the adults.
In maths we have been looking at explaining our thinking when answering questions. For example, instead of just saying there are four objects, we have been explaining that it looks like a 4 numicon, or it is one more than 3.
In phonics, we learnt the sounds h,b,f and l, and practised reading the word 'the'.
Read MoreLeaf Man
Published 06/10/23, by Jo MacraeThis week we have been reading the book of Leaf Man. The pictures were all made with leaves. We went for a walk in the playground and woodland area collecting leaves and seeds and returned to make our own pictures. We also used the leaves to make rubbings and talked about the colours we saw.
In the classroom, we made a farm shop and enjoyed playing the roles of both the shop keeper and the customer. We recognised lots of different vegetables but couldn't name a parsnip, but we did know it came in soup and stews!
We learnt ck, e, u and r in phonics this week. We are getting much better at blending sounds together when reading the word cards.
In maths we have been showing our counting abilities, and remembering that we have to count each thing once and not to miss any out.
Read MoreRainbow Fish
Published 29/09/23, by Jo MacraeThis week we have been reading the story of Rainbow Fish.