We were so excited when it started snowing very heavily this afternoon.  We all dressed warmly and went outside to have some fun in the snow.  Some of us attempted to make snowmen, caught snowflakes in our mouths and generally just hand fun! Timo had great fun sliding down on his bottom and many of us were excited to copy this!

Please note that if it continues to be snowy tomorrow we will definitely have some time playing outside.  Please ensure your child has a warm, waterproof jacket, cosy shoes, gloves and a hat, and if possible waterproof trousers or salopettes.  Thank you.

This week the elephants have been learning about the ow sound.  Today they made snowflakes and they did such a fantastic job that real snow fell later! They were all delighted that they had made it snow!

We painted our 3D models  this afternoon.  We worked very well as part of a team!  We are now very confident at identifying, naming and being creative with 3D shapes.

We also spent some time in the afternoon doing puzzles as we had recently told Mrs Duncan that we didn’t like puzzles and that we found them too tricky.  We had definitely changed our minds by the end of the afternoon but for many of us this is an area for development.  We should all be able to complete puzzles that are between 50-100 pieces. We will continue to work on this in class, feel free to also develop this at home.

We started our new maths topic today.  We are learning abut taking away.  We can call this subtract or minus too!  We watched a great video that we all loved.  We were eager for it to go on the Blog.  Please click here to access it.

We have started thinking about taking away 1 using numberlines.  We thought this was an easy strategy to use.  You could reinforce this learning at home by asking your child various taking away 1 sums such as 9-1,5-1 etc.  We also have been learning to solve sums where everything is taken away like 1-1, 4 million – 4 million, 3 hundred – 3 hundred etc.

Today we started our food topic.  We had a competition to see how many fruits and vegetables we could name in five minutes.  Elodie and Aila managed to write down 25 different fruits and vegetables.

Try zooming into the pictures below to see our very logical (and adorable) spelling!

We also learned that we should be trying to eat five fruits and

vegetables each day to keep our bodies healthy.  Abbey told us this was because of the vitamins!

We tasted five different fruits and vegetables.  We tried pomegranate, sugar snap peas, pineapple, mango and orange pepper.  We looked on the Internet to see how each of these is grown.

On Thursday we are going to be making a healthy fruity snack!

This week we are learning to use two new apps: Cbeebies Story time and Disney storytime.  Although the latter is very American, the addition of the iPads to the story corner have encouraged many of us to visit the story corner.  This makes Mrs Duncan very happy! 🙂

You could try downloading them at home.  We can also confidently use the following apps: BeeBot, free -flow and link bridge.

This week in music we were learning how to clap, move and stamp in time to different types of music.  We chanted a song to help us with this and listened to classical and pop music.  Our favourite part of the lesson was having free exploration with our handmade Chinese drums.

Please see the tab above to access the homework for this week.