We have had a great first week back. It was good to see all of our friends again. Read on to find out we did.

Literacy
In literacy we shared our holiday news and wrote all about it. We are mastering our skills writing and using our sounds to help us to write tricky words. We are also making really good attempts at remembering to use joining words such as, ‘and’, ‘so’, ‘but’ and ‘because’. We have been learning that these joining words help to make our sentences longer and more interesting. We also learnt how to write an information report. We learnt that information reports need a title, two or three pieces sentences about what it is you are writing about and a sentence to finish off the report. We will be spending the next few weeks writing lots in this style of writing.

Numeracy
We have revisited counting money as this is a really important skill that we will need for the rest of our lives. We engaged in lots of fun activities including: playing interactive games on the smartboard, playing shop keepers, using activity mats to make specific amounts and playing with real coins.

IDL
We had great fun splatting paint all over this week as we learnt all about the artist named Jackson Pollock. It was messy but fun! We also learnt about the important of wildflowers. We learnt that some people mow these down or pull them out which is a shame as the wildflowers provide food and shelter for minibeasts. We would like to see more colour and flowers at Saint Nicholas and so we made seed splats.  We got to take one home and we will  throw the rest around some parts of the playground. Fingers crossed that they work! We also celebrated Earth Day by switching off our lights and discussing the importance of putting litter in the bin.

RERC
We spoke about the joy that Jesus’s twelve disciples must have felt when they learnt that he was alive. We also discussed how Jesus’s friends were very important to him and spoke about how friends make us happy and what we can do to make others happy.