This week we have been learning to listen carefully to the sounds we can hear around us. We have played with the animals to help with our description of them and mimicked the sounds they would make. We learned how to recognise the number of syllables in words and clap the beat of the word through games.

We listened carefully to number stories about greedy zero, penguin one, ticklish two and butterfly three to help us recognise what three looks like and how it can be represented. The stories were good fun to listen to and helped us when practising our number formation.

We took a trip to the MUGA and hall for PE this week and had so much fun playing with the parachute. It was smiles and giggles all round as we lifted it really high above our heads and listened to when it was time to run underneath and swap places with each other. We even managed to keep lots of balls from falling off it.

Our story of the week has been ‘The Colour Monster’ by Anna Lenas which explores how you can be feeling at different points of the day. It prompted some great discussion about times when we feel a certain way and it was lovely to see the boys and girls sharing their experiences with one another.

Finally, we had a little cuddle with Trumpet our class elephant who helps look after us and helps Mrs Denholm choose the star of the day.