We have certainly hit the ground running this week! Our learning landscape has changed to help us encounter new and exciting adventures all about about ‘dinosaurs’.
We have created a dinosaur world and using our funky fingers disentangled some dinosaurs which have become tangled up in wool and string. Using scissor snips we have set them free!!
We have also been finding our about the origins of Bonfire Night and how to stay safe. We made some fabulous firework paintings. On Wednesday we make firework sparkle breadsticks, they were scrummy! We even learnt a new song called Five Fat Fireworks, click here to sing it at home.
Worship
This week in Worship we have started our ‘Prophecy and promise’ topic. We spoke about how Mary was chosen by God to be Jesus’ mother. Our key words were MARY, JESUS, ANGEL and BABY.
When we arrived at school we received a special letter. It invited us to learn all about Jesus and the wonderful story of how he was born. We all said, yes! We couldn’t wait to hear all about it! We watched a video all about Mary being visited by an angel, you can watch it here:
Our child led worship theme this week was ‘All Saints’. We spoke about how we can follow Jesus, live our lives well and be saints ourselves. Here is a video we watched after our Gospel reading.
We all sat in a circle and passed a hug around to share God’s love. We then discussed what our ‘superpower’ is so that we can be just like Saints and Jesus and share our power with the world. Some of our answers included sharing, helping and being kind. We are all amazing!
We spoke about how Mary had to trust God – we thought she might have been a bit scared and worried but she still said yes. We thought about how we could trust each other – we had a go with our elastic ring in the garden. We all stand in a circle and stretch it our further and further and then let go! We have to trust our friends to all let go at the same time! We love this game!
Meet 4
Great news…we have met a new number…4! Click here to watch.
We found our that 4 appears in lots of contexts, such as four legs on a table. This week we have become ‘4 detectives’. Four has the special property of being a square number. We even made 4 into lots of different shapes.
Counting to 4
4 is a small number and counting to 4 provides lots of practice in developing the skills of counting such as on-to one correspondence and saying numbers in the correct order.
Recognition of 4 without counting (subitising)A group of four objects is easy to subitise (recognise without counting) and we are getting very good at this!
Next week is going to be just as busy so have a good rest this week end!
Have a lovely weekend.
Stay safe and God bless
Barbara