Spring Term 1, Week 2
What an amazing second week back we are have had. We have loved our Outdoor Learning focus for Understanding the World this week, working in our books noticing the insects, bugs and other things that grow in our outdoor area - ensuring we move care to look after these creatures with empathy and love. We have been learning how to use the mud kitchen and digging the mound with confidence.
We enjoyed growing in faith, as we visited the church for our class Mass this week, learning from Father Phillip how we can always shine and twinkle, even in the darkness, like the stars do in the sky - guiding others in hope.
We have been working with high expectations on our marbling skills, getting closer to finishing our marbled notebooks to bring home, as well as being resilient as we learn to weave for a very special project we will bring home in March.
In Maths, as well as ordering amounts to 5, we have confidently been matching the numeral to these with confidence, knowing as we count in a 'staircase pattern' numbers are getting bigger by 1 each time. We have now started looking at capacity and mass, understanding how we know if something is heavier or lighter when we look at them on balance scales:
"The log is heavier than the feather. I know this because the log is lower.'
'The feather is lighter than the log. I know this because the feather is higher'
For Literacy we are enjoying our Talk Through Stories of the Rainbow Fish - and have been creating seascapes, retells and playdough fish all inspired from this learning - we are aspirational!
We have started our next Music journey - entitled 'Journeys' where we are using the rhythm and beats of train to help us create our own Music trains.
In RE we focused on the gifts the Wise Men brought Jesus, and considered what gifts we would bring Jesus.
We cannot wait for you to see our amazing learning in a few weeks time when you come in for parents evening and look at our Floor Books.
Happy Birthday Ivy.
Thank you to our Mystery Reader: Ms Johnson
Spring Term 1, Week 1
Happy New Year!
A huge welcome back to Mrs Guoite too - who has joined our Class alongside Mrs Daly, Mrs Piper and Mrs Barron.
We have loved returning to St. Peter's, and cannot believe we have campsite in the role play for our Explorer's Topic - with a big star to remind us of the journey of the Wise Men! We cannot wait to REACH in our learning this term.
We have loved taking our learning outside throughout the week - especially to see and use snow and ice in our learning. We have looked across the school grounds for signs of winter, seeing, noticing and wondering about the world around us and the changes in nature. We used high expectations to draw and write the things we saw on this walk. We spotted red berries and Ivy with some ivy.
In Maths we have continued subitise numbers, including linear and dice patterns. We have been recreating these and matching them to their numerals with confidence. We have continued our learning around shapes too in our provision, creating them with our pegs!
In RE we made constellations, empathetically thinking about the journey of the wise man who travelled in Faith and Hope in search of God's Love.