This week we started looking more closely at the trees around the school. We learned the words deciduous and evergreen and looked at which trees were starting to change colour and might shortly lose their leaves. We started to identify different types of trees by looking at the shape of their leaves. Our favourite leaves were from sycamore and oak trees. We also saw birch and lime trees around the school but we couldn’t find a holly tree – the children have been asked to keep an eye out when they are walking around Peebles! On Tuesday we did some bark and leaf rubbings – we were all amazed at the detail in the leaves, and also how hard we needed to press!

In phonics this week we learned the double sound ‘er’ in flower, driver and (for the Pokémon obsessed) Charmander! We’re doing a lot of sentence building – looking at what a sentence needs and adding description. The children are reading well in class, thank you for practising the key words at home. In numeracy this week we’re continuing with subtraction and have been counting in twos and talking about odd and even numbers.

We’ve been chatting a lot about being worried recently. We made ‘helping thinking hats’ to help us think about whether our thoughts are true and whether our thoughts are helpful. In circle time we also talked about what a good friend is and what a good friend does.