This week we have enjoyed a number of activities to mark Children’s Mental Health Week 2022. We watched the Place2Be’s virtual assembly on the theme of Growing Together and had a super discussion about the people who help us to grow. We created our own support balloons highlighting the people who help us talked and discussed what makes us happy and the sorts of things we can do to help us feel better when times are not quite so good. We also enjoyed some yoga.
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In phonics our focus in P1 has been ir and ou and in P2 we have been learning about suffixes through adding ed and ing to words. We have been practising our sounds and working hard to blend our sounds together to help us read with increased fluency. Thank you for supporting the children with their reading at home.
In numeracy P1 have been learning to tell the time using o’clock and half past times on both analogue and digitial clocks and particularly enjoying this song to support their learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UvcqVGEMGbY. Please keep practising telling the time at home. P2 have been completing their block of learning on addition and subtraction by considering related facts and comparing number sentences. A favourite song this week for the children was https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-iAQI5k-8cQ , why don’t you have another listen at home!
This week we finished our Charles Rennie MacIntosh inspired roses, I’m sure you’ll agree they look great.
We have had great fun talking about pets this week and some children changed our home role play area into a pet shop with a vet section. The children have engaged in some super conversation during their play in the pet shop and have been developing their literacy and numeracy skills throughout their play.
We are keen to continuing building our pet shop and vet area in the next few weeks and would be very grateful for any donations of soft pets, pet toys, water bowls and small animal beds/cages which you no longer require. If you would like to donate any items please send them in with your child and we will quarantine them before adding them to the pet shop.
Have a lovely weekend and please remember that Monday and Tuesday are holidays for the school children. We look forward to seeing them on Wednesday 16th February.
Here are some the children’s highlights this week:-
Minny “I enjoyed everything.”
Ethan “I enjoyed making the Pets at Home and the vets.”
Cooper “I enjoyed making the support balloons.”
Hunter “I liked doing my maths, no my reading!”
Aylar ” I enjoying doing the pet shop.”
Jack “I liked learning my letters.”
Georgia “I enjoyed learning about everything.”
Kaylan “I enjoyed learning Mental Health Week.”
Cara “I have enjoyed everything.”
Poppy “I’ve liked learning about everything.”
Kyle “Everything.”
Dylan “I liked building the pet shop.”
Kade “I liked learning the words.”
George “Doing the numbers.”
Dexter “I liked building my train rushes.”
