This week we have been thinking about the different foods we eat. Yesterday we did observational drawings of some fruit from different places around the world. The children looked carefully at the fruit and then drew them; thinking carefully about what colours to use. Today we looked at where the food came from and then cut them up to taste them. We made a Tally Chart showing our favourite fruit.
We are pleased to be able to say that the Reception children will be bringing home a reading book this week. All children who have returned their reading books will be given a book on Monday. This book needs to be returned, in their plastic folder, on Friday. The children will also read in school but the extra reading at home will help support their learning.
This week will we be finding out what foods we need to eat to keep healthy, tasting a variety of exotic fruit, we will be counting out objects to 20 and learning about one more and one less and thinking about how the disciples felt at Easter.
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We have planted potatoes, spinach, beetroot, lettuce, radish, and rocket. We helped to sow the seeds and now need to remember to water them! We also planted some flower bulbs into our pots in the outdoor area. We are looking forward to having some lovely colourful plants. Indoors we have planted a sunflower seed. We are going to bring these home when they start to grow and plant them in our gardens. There will be a prize for the tallest flower!
We have been exploring symmetry, sharing and turn taking, thinking about how we can help others during Lent, finding out about the Life Cycle of a Butterfly and making cookies and cards for Mother’s Day. What a busy week! The children all did really well and settled back in with ease.
We held our Advent Prayer Service and thought about how we could bring peace to others. We made peace hearts to let Year 4 we are thinking about them this weekend.
We found out how people in Poland and Italy celebrate Christmas. Pietro helped us to learn about Italy and Julian about Poland. Thank you for the lovely spiced cake Pietro.
We had a fun day on Friday in our Christmas Jumpers and we also recorded our part for the Christmas video. The jumpers can be worn again on Christmas Dinner day next week. Next Friday will be our last day before Christmas so we are going to watch the Polar Express and have some hot chocolate and treats. The children in Reception are invited to come to school in their Pyjamas.
We started the week by making an Advent Wreath. We all helped to put in the leaves and holly. We then held a lovely Prayer Service.
We made shortbread to celebrate St Andrew’s Day.
On Tuesday Mrs Cannon came down to say that she had just had some very exciting visitors. They were two of Santa’s Elves who brought us a reply to our letters for Father Christmas.
We continued our preparations for Advent by making cards and writing a letter to the Residents of The Spinney. We hope that they make them smile.
We listened to the Annunciation Story and then took it in turns to act out the story. We talked about how Mary would have felt and if we would have said ‘Yes’.
On Thursday we had a very special Advent Service when we joined with Nursery to link with Father Paul. It was lovely to feel part of the Church community again and share the service.
We also managed to fit in daily phonics, number 5 work in Mathematics, learn a new word in our Word Aware programme and make Nativity pictures!
We have been talking about the season of winter and made some winter pictures.
We practised our scissor skills cutting out hands to make a very important wreath for Advent.
In our Literacy lesson we wrote a very important letter to Father Christmas. We are hoping that we might get a reply this week. We will let you know!
Our Word Aware word this week was ‘side’. Next week we will find out about ‘Up’.
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We have had a lovely week getting ready to share Concept Cat’s Birthday. The children wrote invitations, made cards and wrote out party food lists. We played pass the parcel and danced to disco music. The food was good and we then sang Happy Birthday and shared the cake.
We have been learning all about the Sacrament of Marriage. We look at some pictures of a wedding and then we acted out the service. The best bit was sharing the cake afterwards!
We celebrated Bonfire night by making firework pictures, recording our firework noises and making chocolate apples.
We have been exploring numbers 1-3. We have sorted objects and ourselves and also practised writing numbers. 
We met Concept Cat who is going to be helping us to learn all about words and their meaning. This weeks word was ‘Back’.
This week we will be finding out about Diwali, Remembrance Day, wedding celebrations and ending on Friday by dressing down for Children in Need. A very busy week!
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