Week beginning 26.02.24

 Week beginning 26th February 

It is just a short blog this week :)

I hope you all had a lovely half term break, the children have loved sharing all the different things they have gotten up to! It won't be long until the next one when we will hopefully have some sunshine! 

The children settled back into our routines well and I have noticed how grown up they seem, they have now completed half of the school year! Doesn't it fly by! 

This week we have been:

  • recapping taught sounds and reading lots of words with digraphs in
  • practicing our knowledge of tricky words
  • comparing length in maths - finding items that are longer and shorter. 
  • helping an injured triceratops on our dinosaur island. 
  • in drawing club we have been watching Popeye and drawing wonderful things from it - like Popeye, the spinach factory, something that would be too heavy for Popeye to pick up. 

Nursery:
  • in listening time this week we have been doing what is in the box looking at the sound o,  as well as exploring the new rhyme Mary Mary Quite Contrary, completing the actions and clapping the syllables and finding the odd one out. As well as recapping some of the sounds they have covered - s a t p i n m d g 
Staffing
  • I am sure you have seen the staffing update from Mrs Fairbrother, where she explains who is covering Class 1 when I am away with PGL. it will be Mrs Simpson in the mornings (which will be a lovely way for her to get to know the Reception children reading for Class 2 and Mrs Barnes in the afternoons). 
  • Thank you for your kind wishes for me, I really appreciate it. 
Recycling -  any boxes/plastic bottles etc needed for junk modelling - please and thank you!


I hope you all have a lovely weekend :)

Miss Lewis 

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