It was so lovely to see everyone who managed along to the coffee and chat this morning. Hopefully this blog will give everyone a further insight into the day to day activities in our classroom.
Our first few days in school were spent exploring our environment, making new friends and catching up with our friends from nursery
There are so many different areas for us to explore!
Our class book for the beginning of term was The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We have our class caterpillar on our window, but some of us noticed that on the book the caterpillar is not just green, it has parts that are blue, yellow and purple too, so we worked together to create our collaborative art caterpillar who now has pride of place hanging from our classroom ceiling.
In our literacy lessons we have been concentrating on Phonological Awareness (the building blocks of early literacy). We have focused on auditory memory through our listening games, visual memory by playing Kim’s Game and we have been developing our knowledge of syllables in words.
We investigated our senses and went on a listening walk – we then drew pictures to represent what we Saw, Tasted, Felt, Heard and Smelled when we were outdoors.
There are opportunities to develop our literacy and story telling skills across all of the classroom areas.
In Numeracy and Maths we have been investigating numbers to 10.
And developing our maths skills through play – here we are discovering symmetry!
Miss Bishop has been teaching us about algorythms and coding using the BeeBots.
In our PE lessons, we have been learning how to move safely around the school PE areas, how to work together as a team and developing our listening skills.
In our first Outdoor Learning session, we spent time exploring the different areas.
We really have packed so much into our first few days! I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend and look forward to hearing all about it on Monday.
