Everyone quickly settled back into our school routines this week after the Christmas holidays.
There was lots of snow to explore in the big school field! Sledging was lots of fun. The children used their communication and turn-taking skills. They showed great determination too! Well done Tay Class.
Tay class had a great time today at the Christmas party. We all enjoyed some delicious ice cream and other treats when we got back to class.
Last week we continued with our literacy and numeracy learning. We enjoyed PE with Mrs McMaster – especially the big climbing frame and ladder. We made some Christmas cards…so look out Mums and Dads for these coming home in our bags this week.
Below are photos of some us engaged in play during ‘Choose Time’ last week.
The class listened to a story called ‘Leaf Man’ by Lois Ehlert. We then created some people of our own using leaves.
We’ve continued to learn about money, time and shape. This week we’ve been learning about repeating patterns. We listened to/watched songs about patterns and H enjoyed dancing along to one of them too. We also did some pattern activities on the iPads. We’ve continued to practice our phonics through songs and activities. We’ve practiced our listening skills through activities on the iPads. We’ve listened to stories and explored the books in class. Some of us came to school in pyjamas today to celebrate world book day.
We’ve enjoyed time outdoors in the playground, field, outdoor class and the trim trail. It’s been very chilly this week so many of us were delighted at the contents of ‘What’s in the box?’ yesterday: hot chocolate, marshmallows and cream! We mixed up our own. Two of the class drank/ate all three things. Some of us just liked the cream and marshmallows.
We’ve celebrated several birthdays in class too. ‘A’ has been singing ‘Happy Birthday’ regularly over the past two months so he was very excited to celebrate his own birthday and hear people singing to him. His big smile says it all!
Tay class did some process art inspired by photos, songs and videos of Autumn. We explored the colours: mixing different colours both on the palette and on the paper.
We continued our ‘All about Me’ topic. We watched and listened to songs about bones and created skeleton pictures with different types of pasta. ‘Dem bones, dem bones dem dry bones…’.
We listened to the colour monster story and sorted some different pictures into groups: sad, happy or angry.
Climbing, balancing and sharing space with our friends in PE today.
H and M enjoyed dancing to the number song today. ‘Let’s count forwards and count backwards. Move and have some fun!’
A made number block 20 with plasticine.
Exploring our new coloured slime… thanks to Mrs H. for giving us this. There are lots of colours.
What a quick (and busy!) term it’s been… below are some photos of what Tay Class have been doing.
Tay Class have had another busy couple of weeks. The classroom has been very warm so we’ve enjoyed lots of fresh air outside at the trim trail, kick pitch and the playground.
We listened to the story of the colour monster and coloured in our own monsters. We listened to lots of other stories too.
We listened to lots of songs and rhymes and made our own Incy wincey spiders.
B did great counting and stuck in the correct answers. Well done B!
A and M enjoying a story in the library corner. Great listening and looking.
C having a relax on the cool grass. Great idea C!
B took a selfie with his missing tooth. His tooth fell out but luckily Miss A found it on the floor.
The first few weeks of the session have gone well in Tay Class. The children have been very engaged during play and whilst exploring resources.
Our topic is ‘People Who Help Us’. We have been learning through songs and stories as well as playing with some emergency vehicles and a police station. We have used our art skills to make a variety of vehicles too. Some of the class added labels to diagrams of fire fighters and police officers and matched people to their vehicles.
