We made a start into our mini topic Fairy tales with great enthusiasm. The children enjoyed listening and retelling Sleeping Beauty, making masks and acting it out. We compared it with Hansel and Gretel and looked for similarities and differences. We are developing our Role play corner into a Fairy castle with dressing up, so if you have any “royal” items that you can donate to enhance this, they would be most welcome.

Our science is closely linked to our topic. Miss Robbie is teaching us about use of materials. The three little pigs got a helping hand to build houses of straw!

We are continuing to learn 2 letter sounds and are practising reading and writing words with them. We are also using our sounds in phonics to sound out longer words. On Shrove Tuesday we made some pancake toppings and wrote about it, we retold a fairy tale, and we have been writing labels for our Gingerbread houses. We enjoyed a visit from Diane from Mearns Library who came to read a variety of stories to us, and we would encourage the children to visit the library to borrow books now that they have longer opening hours again.

In Numeracy we are using different ways to practise number bonds to 7, 8 and 9. We began to write, read and order numbers to 20. We have been exploring data handling and have learned about Carroll diagrams and Arrow diagrams. Next we will be learning about simple graphs.

In Art we learned how to mix secondary colours and used them to good effect when painting the Gingerbread man story.