On Monday morning there were lots of excited faces (and some tired faces) coming into class. It was so lovely to hear what each other did during the holiday and most were keen to share what they had been gifted during the break.

We started off the week by writing about what we did during the holiday and were encouraged to think about our favourite thing that we did. We are really starting to consider our sentence structure when writing and thinking about capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

In Literacy we have been practising all sounds that we have learned so far, rhyming, having a go at writing sentences and focusing a lot on common words.

We also started a new topic this week, The Past. We started by discussing what the past actually is and shared ideas such as the dinosaurs lived in the past and woolly mammoths are from the past along with Mary and Joseph. We then thought about our own past and shared with each other memories that have happened in our past. Mrs Agnew shared some examples of her past to help us with this.

We then drew a picture of something that has happened in our past and it was a joy to listen to important events that has happened in each other’s lives.

On Thursday we did our PE lesson in the classroom. It was so cold outside so we picked a Yoga session about a polar bear in the snow. We discussed the importance of Yoga and some of us found it challenging to hold the more difficult poses.

We needed a good rest afterwards!

To show how creative we are and get us thinking about ourselves as artists we read the story ‘The Dot’. We were then given a piece of paper with a black dot in the middle and were asked to turn the dot into anything we wanted. Some of us really used our imaginative and turned the black dot into something wonderful. We have proudly displayed these in our classroom.

The New Year has got us thinking about how we can keep our bodies healthy. We have started learning about Food and Health as part of our learning around Health and Wellbeing. This week we discussed the different ways we can keep our bodies healthy and then drew a picture of doing this. We already knew lots of ways to keep healthy such as eating vegetables, resting and sleeping, drinking milk and water and exercising!