Welcome back. The children have been busy sharing Christmas news. They bought in a favourite toy to talk about and then completed an observational drawing of the toy. We had some excellent drawings and some of the children were very confident to share news in front of the others. We are encouraging children to speak in front of a group and answer questions in a sentence.
We have been practising our gross motor skills, kicking a football in the outdoor area. We have some promising footballers for the school team in future years.
In mathematics we have been exploring what happens when you take something away from a larger group. The children realised that this means you have less when we counted out biscuits for each of the children at the tables during snack time and Mrs McCloskey took one off each table, because she was hungry! When they went to take a biscuits one person did not have one and they were able to say why this happened (and Mrs McCloskey put them back).
We also made use of the weather to go outdoors and see what patterns our footprints made.
Next week we will be counting and practising writing our names.
