Children in Class 1 are now revisiting and securing their knowledge of the phonics sounds.

Miss Bellis’ group have been busy segmenting and blending 3 letter words using the magnetic letters.

Class 1 have been finding out about what different buildings are used for in the local area.  Today we went on a walk to find out more.

We saw the church that Harry’s Mum and Dad got married in and where we did our school play.  The Village Hall where Maisie and several other children have had their birthday parties.  The football field where the children do cross country and the play park – which we enjoyed using 🙂

We talked about all the different things in the village and why they are important.  Lots of children thought our school is one of the most important buildings so that children can learn.

The children welcomed a special visitor into Class 1 today.  Post woman Jen came in to tell them all about her job.

The children really enjoyed meeting her and they had plenty of questions to ask.

This week the children have been making up their own number stories about one and two more.  Some children even started to think about what would happen if there was one less.

The children used small world objects to help tell their story – e.g. There were 4 horses in the school field and one more came.  In pairs they worked out the new totals.  Some children will have this recorded in  their online learning journal – Tapestry.

If you see/hear your child using this language at home or in play, please do upload onto their Tapestry area.

The children in Class 1 have been finding out all about Chinese New Year this week.

In Literacy we read the Story of the race  – http://www.topmarks.co.uk/ChineseNewYear/ZodiacStory.aspx

Then in Maths we looked at what an ordinal number is and used the animals from the story to help us understand 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.

In P.E.  we leaned a Lion Dance and found out that Dragons don’t like red.

In art / DT the children made lanterns and lion masks.

The children found out how to write their initials in Chinese writing.

Finally some of the children enjoyed eating Chinese food for their lunch.

Gong Hey Fat Cho   🙂