We are really enjoying our daily guided reading sessions. It’s a chance for us to enjoy books and talk about what we read, practise our phonics skills and become fluent and confident readers. It’s been wonderful hearing the children read their first words and sentences, what a privilege! I’ve loved reading all of the comments from home in their home school reading diaries. Thank you for all your support with your child’s reading, it’s so important and makes a huge difference.

Be sure to check out the guided reading support page here on the blog for more information and ideas.

We had a great week celebrating friendship. It was so lovely to see the children making cards for one another or inviting friends to play with them. The children really went above and beyond to make their friendship pal feel extra loved and included this week. Thank you for supporting and encouraging your children at home too. We ended the week dressed as our hero’s and it was lovely to see how the children had been inspired by their hero’s.

We LOVED our trip to Thorncombe Woods. We walked, talked, explored, looked and listened. On our way through the tall trees and beautiful bushes we kept an eye out for any characters from the Gruffalo. Although we didn’t spot any we did see some colourful mushrooms, a small wooden door at the bottom of a tree, some horses and a few bogs!

We loved going on a nature hunt and finding things that we thought were beautiful or that made us smile. We collected things of our favourite colours and things we were intrigued by. We’ll create some natural art with what we collected later on this week.

A beautiful trip with a beautiful class.

This week we’ve been investigating number. We started by finding numbers using lots of different resources. We found number 4 using dice, Numicon and dominoes. We found number 8 using clock faces, fingers and cubes. We worked with lots of numbers and found that there are many ways to show a number.

See what numbers we can spot when you’re out and about.

Today we kick started our creative arts rotation afternoon. Every Tuesday the children will rotate around three different activities. They visit Miss Baker for art, Miss Hudson for PE and me for drumming. In art today they created some colourful bonfire art. In PE they stretched out with some gentle yoga and in drumming we played a stop and start game and the weather game. We had so much fun, ask us all about it.

Over the last two weeks we have been practising our safe landings when jumping from a height and balancing confidently. We have loved using the apparatus and learning how to control our bodies to move safely and confidently.

We have been using our phonics knowledge to chop up words into their individual sounds so that we can write them. That’s right, we’ve been writing! It’s amazing seeing the children writing there own words, some for the first time. Even our bananas we’re getting involved in our phonics today!

It was great to see so many of you yesterday for our stay and play session. The children loved showing you their fine motor skills activities and it was lovely to see them turn into the experts!

Thank you if you could make it and keep your eyes open for our next session next half term.

We had a very exciting day today. We had a special visit from the local fire and rescue team who took us on a tour of the fire truck, let us use the water hose and taught us all about fire safety. We had an opportunity to dress up in some fire fighting clothes and ask lots of questions. We learnt what to do in the event of a fire at home, ask us to show you.

We are enjoying finding out lots about the children through our circle times and the golden box. We have been looking closely at our faces this week and noticing what makes us unique and beautiful. We have been painting self portraits and drawing ourselves on cut out figures. We really loved hearing the book, All About Faces. It talked about how our faces tell the world how we are feeling.

It’s been wonderful to see some of the home learning that’s coming in related to our Marvellous Me topic. Keep it coming! See the suggestions below for some ideas.