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We have been working on our literacy skills through our transition topic, The Three Little Pigs. We have been writing about our favourite part of the story and also discussing the three different houses. Which of the three houses would be the strongest? Which one would take the longest to build? We wrote about our straw house. How it looks, what shape it is, what colour it is and what might be inside it.

  

We have started to look at  time this week. We have looked at the clock and talked about hands, the clock face, minute, hour and o’clock. We have learned that when the big hand (the hour hand) is at the 12 it is o’clock. We have to keep our eye on the clock in the classroom and each time the hand of the clock reaches the 12, the first boy or girl to say the correct time gets a sticker! We made our own clocks making sure we put all the numbers on in the correct order and we also put on an hour hand and a minute hand.

                

We used our drama lesson this week to fuel our imagination about our topic The Three Little Pigs. This helps us in our imaginative writing. We all had to pretend we were The First Little Pig. We had to gather straw and build our house. We then had to tell the others all about our house. How tall it was, how many windows and doors it had, what it was like inside. We then worked in pairs and told our partner all about the straw house we had built. At the end of the lesson, we then had to swap character and become the Big, Bad Wolf and we had to huff and puff and blow all the straw houses down!

  

We have also continued to build the three different houses for our classrooms. We were painting a brick pattern on to paper to make the brick house role play area.

              

We have also been building houses using straws, sticks and bricks and then finding out which of the materials used made the strongest house.

              

         

              

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.

Several children have not brought a full gym kit back to school since returning after the Easter holidays. Please ensure your child has a full gym kit in school.

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.

The school will be closed for the May Day holiday on Monday 6th May.