Autumn is definitely arrived. the nursery garden is full of leaves!! We catch sweep them up fast enough. We hope the windy weather that is on it’s way will blow them away.
We have had great fun this week with all our learning! We have have been matching shapes, measuring worms (not real ones!), counting key on to a key ring and practising our fundamental movement skills with Mr. Nay, phew!!
Worship
This week in Worship we have continued our ‘Creation and Covenant’ topic with ‘The Sign of the Cross’. Our key words this week are CROSS, PRAYER and SIGN.
We learnt the words and the actions, we are so good at this! God is love. When we make the sign of the cross, we remember that He loves us and we are part of His family. Have a go here.
On Thursday we chose our first prayer leaders. They led us in our Worship and showed us how to make the sign of the cross and how we should hold our hands while we said a ‘Hail Mary’. Our worship was all about kindness. We heard about love and kindness in the Gospel (Luke 6:35) and spoke about how we have been kind to our family and friends. We then wrote down our acts of kindness and put them into our kindness bucket! We are so excited to fill our bucket.
Also, this week we made a prayer garden in our outside area. We made a HUGE cross of ‘ ‘Hope’ to put in the centre. We all then said a Hail Mary standing around our new garden. It was so moving. Take a look.
Meet Three!
We met a new Numberblock this week….3. We have explored the part-part whole structure. combining 2 with 1 to make 3.
‘Threeness’ of 3
At the beginning of the episode TWO lies horizontally to illustrate that he is still TWO even though he is in a different orientation. This idea is built on later when THREE changes his arrangement from a three block tower to an L shaped block. THREE is also represented next to TWO in a line from left to right. This places THREE as one more than TWO and TWO is one more than ONE. The staircase representation of ONE, TWO and THREE is a powerful image that helps children to see that the difference between adjacent counting numbers is 1.
Counting to 3
Counting involves knowing the order of the number names and assigning one number tag to one object or event. This episode uses the counting sequence “one, two, three” to objects and characters from well known stories. Click here to watch the episode.
If you want to have a go at writing three check your number mat. Don’t forget duck fingers!
Meet ‘d’
A busy week brain growing! The children were introduced to the new sound ‘d’.
Again check out you sound mat to practise how to write ‘d’ correctly. Once again duck fingers. If you want to recap the Read, Write inc. sounds click here. Don’t be tempted to race ahead with the sounds…take our lead.
Family Mass
This Sunday is our Family Mass at church. It would be so lovely to see all our families there. It starts at 9.30 am at Our Lady Star of the Sea church. It is our first family mass of the year and to welcome all our new families to school and church. We look forward to seeing you there.
Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you all on Monday.
Stay safe and God bless
Barbara