The excitement is really starting to build across the lower part of the school as we have now begun our Christmas show rehearsals in earnest!  Next week, you will receive more information about the show along with details of your child’s role.  Please look out for these letters as we will be asking you to supply a simple costume.  Do talk to us if you need any help putting the costume together – as we have lots of spare dressing up clothes in school.

Of course, we also found time to continue our learning through lots of play! We read the book ‘Yucky Worms’ by Vivian French which is both a fiction and non-fiction text.  We learnt some incredible facts about earthworms; did you know earthworms have 5 hearts!

Here’s a youtube clip of the story being read aloud if you would like to revisit the book:

As the weather has started to get much colder this week, we have not found any earthworms as they are likely to be sleeping deep down in their burrows.  But incredibly, look what we were able to find!

Some of the children even made special binoculars to help them in their outdoor searches and imaginative play…

In our phonics lessons this week, we learnt the sound ‘r’.  Here’s the mouth shape and action for this sound:

And our star of the week did a super job of filling up her number bag with all things related to the number 8.  Here she is presenting her number bag to the class.

And our new number of the week has been chosen as number: