Rainbow books

Yesterday the children brought home a new special book; 'Rainbow words'. As explained, the children should be encouraged to write out these words in many different colours until they are confident to spell them. 

Rather than looking at all the words at once, focus on one a day, that way children won't become overwhelmed.

If there are any questions, please do ask.

Please return the Rainbow book on 11th March.

Our first week back

Welcome back everyone, it was so lovely to see smiling faces on the lining circle.

Here are some photos of the children exploring the loose parts in the sand today. They had a tube with funnels inserted, spades and slopes.

Look at the concentration going on here, I think these have to be some of my favourite photos of the learning in FS2.

Big Talk

Here is this week's picture, a scene from the beach

credit - Laura Pickens

What can you see in the picture?

Is there anything unusual?

What makes you giggle?

How many birds can you see?

Where is the man in the boat going?

Gold Book

Congratulations Bella and Freddy

Bella has been showing her reflective learning skills this week; using what she's learnt with Mr Woodward and applying this in the challenge areas.

Freddy is such a wonderful friend to everyone in class. He invited children to play his game outside and showed just how co-operative he is.

Smartie the penguin

This week has been safer internet week and the children have been learning about making safer choices when using laptops and tablets.

Smartie the penguin has helped the children to understand the need to ask for help. Click on the picture to read the story.

For some colouring pages - click here

Gold Book

Congratulations Maisie and Lexie

Maisie is showing her perseverance skills during our group reading time. Even though a word might be tricky, it doesn't put her off, she uses her phonic skills and works it out. I'm really proud of you Maisie.

Lexie always demonstrates her co-operation skills when learning with other children. Without reminders, she is able to share, take turns and gives her friends a hand if they get stuck. Wonderful qualities to have.

Big Talk

Following on from this week's theme, the Big Talk is based on Chinese New Year.

Credit - Vincent Noot

What can you see happening in the illustration?

This weekend I'm going to see a Lion dance in Leeds City Centre, details below

The weekend after, another dragon dance is happening at Leeds Town hall. For more information click here

Chinese New Year

This week we are finding out about the celebration "Chinese New Year" The classroom is full of new activities to try and today we were so lucky to have the help of Mrs Rogers, a specialist languages teacher, who taught us how to say some Chinese words. Look out for the videos on Tapestry by the end of the week.

Some wonderful learning so far this week.

Looking forward to more fun tomorrow. Can you teach your grown up the number names for 1,2 and 3?

Gold Book

Congratulations to Preston and Ellie-May

Preston has shown how reflective he is, just like Ria. He has been thinking about all the exciting things he can do in class. You've really made me smile this week!

Ellie-May has shown how resourceful she is when she completed this week's Mr Maker challenge. We didn't have exactly the same things he used so Ellie-May used her learning powers and found alternatives. I am so proud of you Ellie-May.