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Today we answered a big question ‘ What in life is beautiful to you?’

The children said……

Lloyd’  Flowers are beautiful because they smell good’

Harley ‘ The weather is beautiful because it’s always different’

Izzy ‘ The sky is beautiful because it’s blue’

Jayden ‘ The sun is…

In Reception we have been busy drawing our own Blue Penguins.  I was very impressed with how well the children were able to create such realistic drawing and colour them neatly.

After we had drawn and coloured them we had a look at them all together.  We looked closely at them all and thought…

We are really enjoying finding out about Penguins in Reception. So far in the Blue Penguin story we have found out that the Blue Penguin is feeling sad. We thought of other words that mean the same as sad.

Here are our thoughts.

Upset

Crying

Down in the dumps

Miserable

We also…

How exciting it was to find a letter from the Blue Penguin in our classroom.

We had a think about what we had found out so far about Penguins so that we could write back and tell Blue Penguin.

We had a think about what we had found out so far about Penguins so that we could write back and…

The children have been using components to build their own circuits. They were given diagrams of circuits which they then had to work together to build to see if the circuit was complete.

In Literacy, we have been doing a lot of work based around the text, ‘The Robot and the Bluebird’.  The main characters have inspired us to learn about similarities and differences between humans and robots, and this week, we have learned about birds and how we can help to look after them.

We…

When the children were asked to bring in photographs of where they or their families had been on holiday, I was amazed how well travelled they are!

What a fabulous time we’ve had over the past week, exploring our new topic, ‘Where in the World!’ It’s been really interesting identifying where all our friends and family members have visited – we particularly enjoyed sharing these adventures with our peers. Aren’t we a well-travelled class!

I…

In Literacy, we have begun reading stories which originate from Central Asia and were ‘told in tents’.  We have enjoyed listening to some and we have also had a go sharing, performing and writing stories too.

In Maths, we have been exploring multiples, as well as finding factors and factor…

In maths we have been learning how to partition numbers into tens and ones. We have used the deans apparatus to find out how many tens and how many ones are in a two digit number.

The children worked really hard with their learning partners and independently, they had to look carefully at the…

For our topic ‘Around the World in 80 days’, the children have been looking at art from different countries. We have particularly looked at a Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, who painted “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa”. It has become a modern-day icon and Hokusai’s seemingly timeless images are…

Happy New Year! I cannot believe we’re in 2019 already – time certainly flies when we’re having fun!                                                                                  

On Monday, I spoke to the children about my new year wishes for our school family. We talked about how every one…