Hello! Happy Valentine’s Day!
This week we began with an assembly and workshop on using the internet safely. The children enjoyed an active session finding out some sensible rules to remember if ever using the internet.
Our water tray turned into beautiful pink sand with some glitter too. Hidden in the sand were a variety of heart shaped objects – the children’s job was to count how many heart shaped objects they could find. After having a go at this they all enjoyed making heart shaped, pink sand cup cakes! We learnt about St Valentine, a Roman priest in the 3rd Century who helped young couples be married in secret; since Emperor Claudius was struggling to recruit young men into his army, he had decided it was because they had too strong an attachment to their wives. He therefore banned all marriages and engagements in Rome! Valentine was jailed for his secret marriages and it is said even wrote a love letter to the jailers daughter. Hence the tradition of our Valentine’s cards today.
Tricky words and cvc words were the selection at the beginning of the week – all the children were able to read and find the right letters to match the words they’d chosen.
We looked our names and found the blocks that would spell our names – we counted how many letters were in our name and then compared with a friend – ‘ Oh you have 6 letters I have 4 in my name – you have 2 more than me’ This was a simple and effective way to get some meaningful counting, comparing and finding difference.
This week was all about love and our families, we borrowed the dolls house from nursery for the week. It was busy all week with some super narrative between friends playing and re- enacting stories from their own home lives.
Some great reading and writing this week getting ready for our Valentine’s cards. All the children enjoyed having their hand painted and then a small heart placed in their palm before making the hand-print… some came out better than others!
The children’s own creativity had them decorating Valentine hearts…
This weeks circle time was thinking about who you love and why you love them? I can safely confirm that all readers of this blog were mentioned – mostly for cooking nice dinners!!
Some excellent pencil rolls, forward rolls, and balances this week in PE.
Lots of reading – from individual to group and caption or question reading. The children are really coming along and making great progress. We are very pleased.
It was lovely to see you all at the parent’s evenings this week. Ten minutes is such a short time, so please do pop in for a chat after school one afternoon if there is more you would like to discuss.
Have lovely half terms – I hope you enjoy a rest and some adventures too.