Thank you to everyone for waiting to ‘see’ me for the parents evening slots – it was great to chat to all and reassure you that the children have great days and are all progressing as they should be! Not least from all the hard work put in at home. Thank you parents.
Following on from Cinderella we turned our focus from lost slippers to shoe making. We had a class bank and materials shop enabling the children to take money out of the bank and pay for materials they needed to make their own shoes! Our circle time ‘ What is a bank? ‘ beforehand generated lots of interesting answers… including ‘… well you can rob a bank!’ !!!!
On Tuesday – 1 year since the start of the first lockdown we held a minutes silence to remember those people who have lost their lives to the corona-virus. The children did very well, being able to explain the problems that Covid 19 has caused us all over the past year.. the main consensus was the lack of swimming this year! We also went out onto the field ( with the nursery – who are in our school bubble) to say a prayer and plant a cherry tree to remember the people lost to corona-virus.
We have been thinking about 3D shape and deciding the differences and similarities between them – shapes that can roll or not roll and other ways to differentiate between them.
Tricky words or RED words have been back this week with lots of reading and writing practice of them.
For fine motor skills we have threaded ribbons around the shoe makers shoes and paired socks – after sorting all the socks most of the children decided to wear the socks!
Our materials shop stayed for the week and was always busy with a queue of customers.
The bank enabled the children to ask for the right money for materials they wanted to buy to make their shoes. The banker ( or customer if the banker had a taken a break!) wrote down their name and which coins or amount of money they had withdrawn from the bank.
More sounds this week – including ee, ar, or, ur, oi and oo. Our whiteboards are a great resource for learning and practising our sounds – a great example of ‘ur’ words below.
Making elves was a very popular activity that stayed for the week too…
Some 2D shape drawing in our outdoor classroom.
The 1 minute timer was used in the water tray to time how many elves could be fished out! The record was 79 elves in 1 minute!
Our science table caused lots of interest testing out the grips on various shoes from our role play shoe shop in slippy soapy water – some were deemed ‘ useless’ ! We decided the big work boots we had had the best grip.
We have 1 white vest left over from PE LAST week – its a white – probably boys vest. Please let me know if you are missing one!
Have a lovely weekend everybody.
Erin Bibby