Hello and welcome back to our blog! I hope it’s more like Spring where you are, it’s still very cold here and we had snow again last weekend!

We have continued to revise all our sounds and tricky words and have been practising writing CVC words and simple sentences. This week we have also been writing lists. We wrote all the things on Mr Bluman’s shopping list. We wrote all the things in Miss Bonnar’s suitcase. We also wrote a list of all the ingredients needed to make pancakes. Best of all, we all got to make the pancakes and then eat them! Yum!

  

  

We looked at measure this week and used the words longer and shorter. We measured with non standard units, e.g., cubes, paper clips, hands, feet and string. We also estimated the length of objects before we actually measured them. We know that estimating is guessing. We also learned that to measure accurately we had to start at the top or at the edge and not leave any gaps.

  

In topic this week we were talking about Spring. We learned what the signs of Spring are and we discussed what happens in Spring e.g., buds and flowers start to appear after the cold of  Winter and some animals are born – lambs and chicks.  Although it is still very cold here, when we walk to our local library on a Wednesday we can see the daffodils and crocuses starting to show through the grass. Every week we’re going to look to see if there are any flowers yet.

We made daffodils in our craft time. We drew around the petal template and cut them out. We then cut an egg box. This was quite tricky and we needed  all our strength to get the scissors through the cardboard. We then snipped the egg box and painted it yellow to make it look like the trumpet part of the daffodil.

              

As it will be Easter in a couple of weeks, we also started to learn about the Easter story. We know that Easter is a very important time for Christians. We learned that Jesus was betrayed and sentenced to death on the cross. We all found this very sad but in the next few weeks we will be learning that this wasn’t the end and Jesus rose again! This made us feel a lot better.

Parent Notices

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. Also please note that all jewellery must be removed for gym.

Your child has been given a blue homework packet, please ensure your child brings this to school every day.

Open Doors – Every Friday from 3.00 – 3.15pm. Come into class and see all your child’s hard work.

Please check your child’s diary for show and tell.