We read the story of Rosie's Walk this week. We all practiced using positional language and had a go at writing some words like up, on, in. Some of the children attempted to write a sentence.
This week we have been making decorations to sell at the fair. We hope to see lots of you at the fair on Saturday and you can then buy the decoration to decorate your Christmas tree.
On Wednesday afternoon we went down to our Woodlands area (formerly Forest School). We all enjoyed exploring the muddy kitchen and we looked for leaves to match and discover the names of the different trees. We all made a group hedgehog collage.
We are now preparing for our Christmas play. We all know the part that we have got and have taken a letter home with information as to which costume we need. We have started learning the songs and our home learning is to design a cover for our programme.
Friday 25 November 2016
Friday 18 November 2016
Doing The washing!
We had a very interesting week this week finding out about how people did their washing in the olden days. We had some very interesting ideas in our home learning about how we would do our washing if we didn't have a washing machine such as washing our clothes in the bath.
We had a visit from the museum to show us how the Victorians did their washing. The children got into the spirit of things by dressing up as Victorians for the day. Please look at our website to see some pictures.
We read the story of 'Mrs Mopple's Washing Line' and all the children had a go at writing about it. The children are getting better at writing the sounds that they can hear in words. For our maths we continued on with our learning about more and less by taking the washing on and off the line and counting as we did so. Perhaps you could also practise this at home?
Today we have been supporting Children in Need day by dressing up in spots and stripes and bringing our teddies in. We have collected lots of money.
We had a visit from the museum to show us how the Victorians did their washing. The children got into the spirit of things by dressing up as Victorians for the day. Please look at our website to see some pictures.
We read the story of 'Mrs Mopple's Washing Line' and all the children had a go at writing about it. The children are getting better at writing the sounds that they can hear in words. For our maths we continued on with our learning about more and less by taking the washing on and off the line and counting as we did so. Perhaps you could also practise this at home?
Today we have been supporting Children in Need day by dressing up in spots and stripes and bringing our teddies in. We have collected lots of money.
Friday 11 November 2016
Nursery Rhymes
We have had a fantastic week this week singing lots of nursery rhymes. The children brought in some really lovely home learning and the children were all able to sing their rhyme to the rest of the class.
The children have made paintings of their favourite nursery rhyme and some children have made models. Today some of the children chose to make some spiders in Learning Through Play. They were all wonderful and all different. The children were able to carefully count the legs to make sure that there were eight.
In literacy we had a focus on rhyme and we had a go at writing some rhyming words. We played with the rhyme of Humpty Dumpty and gave it some different endings. In Maths we did some data handling and we found out which nursery rhyme was our favourite. We used the language of more/less/fewer. Perhaps you could continue this on at home.
This week's home learning is to think about what we would do if we didn't have a washing machine. perhaps you could speak to some of your older family to find out what they did.
The children have made paintings of their favourite nursery rhyme and some children have made models. Today some of the children chose to make some spiders in Learning Through Play. They were all wonderful and all different. The children were able to carefully count the legs to make sure that there were eight.
In literacy we had a focus on rhyme and we had a go at writing some rhyming words. We played with the rhyme of Humpty Dumpty and gave it some different endings. In Maths we did some data handling and we found out which nursery rhyme was our favourite. We used the language of more/less/fewer. Perhaps you could continue this on at home.
This week's home learning is to think about what we would do if we didn't have a washing machine. perhaps you could speak to some of your older family to find out what they did.
Friday 4 November 2016
Autumn Time!
We have had a fantastic few weeks settling in and making new friends and learning new things. We particularly enjoyed our Teddy Bear week when we brought our teddies in and we all did some super writing about them. We read lots of teddy bear stories and had a picnic with our teddies at the end of the week.
This week we have been learning about Autumn and finding out about the Hindu festival of Diwali. We have listened to music by Vivaldi 'The four Seasons' and we have done some dancing. We learned a lovely new song about Autumn and many of the children were singing it as they were raking leaves and sweeping outside.
We read a lovely book called the 'Leaf Man' and some children followed this up with some amazing art work. Lulu's piece was chosen to go into an exhibition at the Harpenden Town Hall.
Next week is 'Nursery Rhyme week' and we will be doing various Nursery Rhyme activities. Home learning this week is to sing nursery rhymes with your child and to draw a picture and label it. We are looking forward to seeing these.
This week we have been learning about Autumn and finding out about the Hindu festival of Diwali. We have listened to music by Vivaldi 'The four Seasons' and we have done some dancing. We learned a lovely new song about Autumn and many of the children were singing it as they were raking leaves and sweeping outside.
We read a lovely book called the 'Leaf Man' and some children followed this up with some amazing art work. Lulu's piece was chosen to go into an exhibition at the Harpenden Town Hall.
Next week is 'Nursery Rhyme week' and we will be doing various Nursery Rhyme activities. Home learning this week is to sing nursery rhymes with your child and to draw a picture and label it. We are looking forward to seeing these.
Tuesday 1 November 2016
Our First Post
Welcome to the Willow class Blog. We will be writing our Blog at the end of every week. We will look at the comments on the Blog once a week so don't worry if your comments are not verified straight away. We will be commenting on our learning and we will also remind you of Home Learning and any extra reminders. We have had an exciting term so far and the children have settled really well into school and are enjoying their learning.
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