This week was all about our show – and what a wonderful show it was! Thank you to everyone for all your support and encouragement; at home, with costumes and in the audience. The children were really proud of themselves and rightly so!
Despite such a busy and exciting week, we managed to squeeze in some time for our phonics. We learnt two further sounds: h and l. Here are the picture prompts and handwriting sayings for these letter sounds. Both sounds can be quite tricky to say – be careful not to drop your jaw with either one – don’t say luh or huh, for example. For l, your tongue should touch the inside of your top teeth and stay there when saying the sound. For h, try putting your open palm in front of your mouth and feel your breath as you say the sound – very quietly. Hope that helps a bit!
Our Spotlight Story this week was the newly published ‘What the Ladybird Heard at Christmas’ by Julia Donaldson. We love these stories and, you may remember, we read the other four in the series earlier in the term. You can revisit the new one here:
What Children Really Want
We also read another version of the story of the Nativity – once again, a beautifully illustrated book – called A Christmas Story by Brian Wildsmith which you can revisit here:
We were inspired to create our own nativity scenes:
…decorate our class Christmas tree…
…and we got to work, wrapping and labelling Christmas presents to put under the tree…
In our P.E. lessons this term, we have been learning how to organise ourselves; getting changed in and out of our P.E. kits, arranging our clothes carefully on our chairs so we can find them when we need to change back into them and putting our P.E. kits away on our pegs.
We have also been learning how to find a space for ourselves in the big hall and how to move different parts of our bodies. We have loved our Friday yoga sessions and, yesterday, we were so excited to have three of our Year 6 children join us. They were very impressed with our yoga skills!
If you would like to revisit the session we followed this week, you can find it here:
Cosmic Kids Yoga
Have a lovely weekend everyone, stay warm!
Thank you for putting on such a fantastic Christmas show this week. We absolutely loved coming to see it. Charlie has also been telling us about all the other exciting things he’s been up to this week. The PE lesson with year 6 visitors on Friday was another highlight.