William Morris

This week the children have been learning about our whole school artist, William Morris. We looked at some of his prints and the children described what they could see. There were a lot of flowers and leaves.

We looked at the 'Larkspur' print and the children used potatoes, cotton buds and leaves to print their own pictures based on this pattern. The children showed great concentration.

The children have also been showing us how well they are doing in their Maths. They are getting much better at describing shapes now and we have even started to look at some 3D shapes. The children have talked about a cylinder and cone. 

This week we continued to look at stories set under the sea as we had been reading the Rainbow Fish. They really enjoyed the story of Barry the Fish with Fingers. 

The school role play has been very popular. The children have been pretending to be the different teachers in Nursery which had been very interesting. They've been following the timetable and doing snack, phonics and story time.

Next week is Book Week and we will be focusing on the story 'The Gingerbread Man'. The children can bring in their favourite stories to share. 

Our sound of the week is 'e'.

Chinese New Year

This week the children have enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year and know that red is a lucky colour. They explored Chinese objects and talked about when they have celebrated a special occasion.

In Maths we have been carefully counting the animals and arranging them in different ways.
We had some great conversation about numbers on NSPCC Number Day. We think Henry wore the most numbers in the school with his pi t-shirt! We talked about  big numbers and what they would ask for if they could have any amount of money- lots of children thought £10 was a lot of money. Grace thought we could just ask for £1 and give the other money to children that need it.

We read the story of the Great Race and Mrs Wilson came and talked to us about living in China. She taught us how to count to 5 in Chinese.

In P.E. we watched a clip of a dragon dance and worked together to create our own dancing dragon. The children did very well moving up and down and shaking their heads to the music.

Next week we will be reading the story 'Rainbow Fish.'

Our rhyme of the week is Pat a Cake.

Our sound of the week is 'c'.