What a beautifully snowy week it was!  We loved getting out and about in the snow and felt so lucky to have so much open space in our lovely school which gave us all the chance to experience that lovely crunchy sound you hear when walking on freshly-fallen snow!

On Thursday, Miss Cronin, Mrs Mooney and Mrs Morris couldn’t get to school because of the snow, but fortunately Goldilocks, Mummy Bear and Daddy Bear turned up instead and read lots of stories to the class! 😉

Baby bear turned up in the afternoon!

A huge thank you to all the parents and carers for supplying such fantastic costumes for the children on World Book Day.  We had a whole school assembly in the afternoon where we paraded our costumes and watched the rest of the school parade theirs.

In other news…

We learnt one new sound this week: a new sort of sound known as a trigraph.  It’s a bit like a digraph (where two letters sit together making one sound) but in this case three letters sit together making just one sound.

The trigraph we learnt is ‘igh’, as in ‘high’.  Although the word high is made up of 4 letters, it is only made up of 2 sounds, i.e. h-igh.  We decided that the action for ‘igh’ would be holding three fingers up high.

In our maths lessons this week we have been thinking about making repeating patterns.  We used lego pieces to make pattern towers such as ‘red, blue, red, blue, red, blue’ which we call an AB pattern.  We also had a go at making an AABB pattern, e.g. red, red, blue, blue, red, red, blue, blue.

Weekend challenge: Make a pattern using objects you have at home (e.g. spoons and forks, teddy bears and cars, cups and bowls, etc.).  Can you use these objects to make an AB pattern? Now try making an AABB pattern.  If that was too easy, find another set of objects to add to your pattern – try making an ABC pattern, an AABBCC pattern or even an AAABBBCCC pattern! Are there any other patterns you can make?

Finally, our new number of the week has been chosen as number: