Our Bodies

This week we have been thinking about our bodies. We have learned about our skeletons and our bones. Some children wrote books about the skeleton and some children made careful drawings using black paper and white chalks.
We have thought a lot about keeping ourselves healthy this week. We found out why it is important to get lots of sleep and how we must go straight to bed at bedtime. I wonder if any of the parents have noticed a difference at bedtime at home?
We have learned about eating healthy food and eating a variety of foods. The children all made a plate of healthy food at welcome time and some children were able to draw their foods and label them.
In maths we have learned about doubling. Some of the children have enjoyed using our addition machine to work out doubling number sentences. May be you could also practice this at home?
Next week is book week. We will be doing activities with the Junior children and we are having a visitor called Professor Mango Pango who will be making poetry fun for us. On Friday you may dress up as a book character and please would you bring a story book and a cushion in for our whole school read?

Chinese New Year

This week it was Chinese New Year and we found out about how Chinese people celebrate. 'We were learning about chopsticks. You have to learn how to use them. Chinese people use them to eat dinner.' Rio. 'We use knives and forks and they use chopsticks.' Ciara. 'We made hand print dragons' Max. ' we went in a big dragon (mask when we were dancing)' Jamie. 'We did a dragon dance' Lucy. 'I was born on the year of the tiger' Ethan.


We carried on with the theme of 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' by making shoes for our toys. We sewed the fabric together just like the Elves did. 'You need to pull the needle all the way through.' Leo. 'You need to hold the end otherwise the thread will come undone.' Ethan. 'You might hurt yourself with the needle if you are not careful.' Sophia. The children really took their time and did some careful sewing and it took a long time so we will need to finish off after half term.


For the half term holidays we are asking parents to fill out a 'Star Moments' sheet to let us know of something special your child has done when they have persevered and tried hard to achieve something. This might be a model they have made, their swimming, reading or writing, dressing or undressing etc.

The Elves and The Shoemaker

When we asked the children about the topic 'InsideOut' they talked about their clothes turning inside out and the seams . We have use the story of 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' as a starting point of a mini topic on sewing. The children have really enjoyed this story and they all did some super writing following it and some of their own books in learning through play. We have had a shoe shop in our role-play and we have had some fantastic play in there. The children have been measuring each other's feet and using money to pay for the shoes. Next week we are hoping to have a go at making shoes for our toys.

We had our number day today and the children were very excited to look at each other's numbers. We did an ordering activity and we did some addition using our number shirts and our fingers. We hope we have made lots of money for the NSPCC.

We read a story by Jill Murphy early in the week and the children were all keen to have a Jill Murphy week. Many of the children remembered to bring a book in for us to read. Which is your favourite?Our home learning for this weekend is to look at some books and choose your favourite to draw a picture and write about. Please remember to do your own work and I look forward to seeing some lovely pictures and writing.