We have had a super week this week, reading the story ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ where Oliver who only eats chips goes to stay with his Grandad and is challenged to find the potatoes in his vegetable garden. The deal was if does not find them, he has to eat whatever he has found. The children really enjoyed exploring the vegetables (and tasting some beetroot!), role playing the story in the small world area and creating healthy food plates in the creative area.They also drew and wrote about their favourite character as well as imagining a strange vegetable that Oliver might find in the garden and what might happen if he ate it! I loved the idea of the sparkly strawberries that made him invisible and the tiny orange that made him shrink! 🙂
In Maths we have been measuring and comparing length and height, using the words short, shorter, shortest and long, longer, longest to describe length and short shorter shortest and tall taller tallest to compare heights. They had great fun measuring lots of things in the classroom and in our outdoor area – including eachother!
It’s great to hear so many children keen to have a turn in the lucky dip box for reading at home 5 times a week. This runs Monday to Monday and each read must be recorded in their reading record. If they read one or the Collins EBooks, please remember to record that too. Our Little Wandle group read sessions are recorded as Group Read as the children read in a small group with me. When reading with your child, please encourage them to re-read a sentence after decoding (sounding out) so they begin to recognise more words and build their fluency.
Next week we will be completing our learning about Easter and why it is special to Christians. Lots of the children have made Easter Gardens following our discussions around this and will bring these home next week. They are also hoping to complete their carriers to keep an egg safe so we would really appreciate it if you have any general recycling resources they could use – small cardboard boxes and tubes – that you please send these in. Thank you.
On the final day of term (Friday 22nd) we will be having a special dress up day (just for our class) as we did not get to see much of each other on World Book Day due to all the exciting events going on in school that day. I have said to the children that I would love to see them as their favourite characters again and they can bring the book they are from so we can share them (and maybe have a little Easter Egg Hunt in the afternoon!) There will be no PE that day.
Please remember if you have any non-urgent queries, please send me an email on beech@crowmoorschool.co.uk
Hoping you all have a lovely weekend.
Miss Jones & Mrs Kenny