28th January 2022
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Happy Friday! We have finally made it to the end of our “Circus” topic and the Nursery grown-ups have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about it with you. In C&L we have enjoyed sharing our final circus story, At the Circus, and have been talking about the word ‘opposites’ and what this means. It was funny listening to you share times when you argue at home just like our characters Eddie and Ellie. In Write Dance we have been playing the parts of the circus characters to the music and today enjoyed sharing our circus show to Red class. Take some time this weekend to watch/listen to the music and see if your family can work out who you are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pct1uEhAqBQ During our morning Forest School session Mrs Allen has been testing how strong you are by using the pipes to be strong “people” from the circus. Towards the end of the week, a stage was set using the crates ready for the outdoors. In the afternoons, you have enjoyed mark making using your hands and boots; printing mud on paper. We took this piece of mark making, alongside our Write Dance juggling ball circles, to show to the rest of the school as part of the writing competition. I think Mrs Moss was actually very impressed with our writing skills in Nursery! Our dough disco song has been very non Circusy as Emily chose yet another Spice Girls song, Spice up your Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r03_iLh_ng . I don’t know about you, but that tune is going in circles around my head. In the cabin we have learnt yet another new song as part of our daily Music session, Rain Rain Go Away. We are moving on to learning about pitch this term with this call and respond song. In Phonics we have been using our listening rules to pass the body sounds around the circle. We moved on today by starting to create our first musical composition as you chose which two sounds you were going to combine to create your own piece of music. In Maths we have been learning all about the square. We all know you can recognise it when you see it but our focus has been exploring the properties – four corners, four straight sides that are all the same length. We enjoyed watching you carry out your own investigation today as you had collected straight sticks and were trying to piece them together to make the square – tricky wasn’t it when they were all different lengths. Have a go this weekend and see if you can find a collection of straight sticks and make the square. A message for parents – next week you will be given your allocated time to come and visit us in the cabin on 9th February. This is an opportunity for you and your child to take a tour, play with table top toys and find a seat somewhere to share the Learning Journeys. Parent consultations discussing progress will take place after half term. We have talked to the children about only being able to play with a few friends on that evening and how we will use the bell (they are used to) as their “time to tidy” warning and moving on to allow time for the next children to arrive safely. Have a lovely weekend. It looks set to be tropical after the temperatures we had at the beginning of the week! Mrs Mander, Mrs Allen, Mrs Franklin, Miss Turner (am), Mrs Hampton (pm) and Miss Herlihy (student teacher) X |