A bit of a soggy and windy week but we have not been deterred from our learning and finding out. We have been sorting socks (and hanging them up) shoes and buttons. It was really tricky because we had to sort them according to size shape and colour… guess what we were fabulous!! We have been working hard to recognise some shapes and their properties, we know that circle have no corners, triangles only have three sides, rectangles have two long sides and two short sides and four corners! Squares have four side which are all the same length…we even recognised a five sided shape and a six sided shape, wow! Listen to the shape song here.
Worship
This week in Worship we have continued our Creation and Covenant topic with ‘God Made Me’. Our key words were LOVE, SPECIAL and FAMILY.
We took a trip to our forest school area to explore our senses. We had a look in the pond to see our reflection, closed our eyes to see what we could hear and also thought about what we could smell. Our bodies are wonderful!
We revisited our story of creation which ended with God making wonderful us! We painted pictures of all the things that God made in our wonderful world to join our self-portraits for our displays in the classroom – we can’t wait for you to see them!
Here is a link to a song all about the things that God made. Click here.
We are so thankful for all that God has given us. Click here to listen to a story about God’s Wonderful Earth.
This week we kept our promise to Mrs. Tierney, Mr. Cornwell and Mrs. Nel and delivered their hand made with love crosses that we made with Justine from the willow growing in nursery garden, they loved them and they are now hanging in their classrooms. Mrs. Gregan wants us to make one for the hall as they are so beautiful!
Meet One
This week we met One. In the episode a little block falls from the sky, meets her numberling, one, and discovers one wonderful world of numerous single things that appear during the song, e.g. one sun, one smile. One also sings about being first in line and being lonely. Click here to watch.
Counting to 1
Saying ‘one’ when there is one thing to be counted
Concept of ‘oneness’
One is a single unit. If one is the quantity then what is being counted is arbitrary, and the size of the one is also arbitrary. e.g. one sun or one ant- there is one of each even though the sun is bigger than the ant. One is represented as a Numberblock, as a finger, familiar things, as a spoken word, as a movement (one hop), as a numeral. Related words for oneness, e.g. first and alone.
We have also been practicing write the numerals 0 and 1. Watch out for the sheet coming home with all the rhymes to help your child write numerals.
0 - round in a loop like an empty hoop
1- one line down like a stick makes a 1 that was quick!
Good luck!
Parent Meetings
This half term Parent Meetings will be held on the 9th October and the 16th October from 3.45pm -5.30 pm.
It is a great opportunity for you to meet up with myself and your child’s key person and have a chat. We therefore ask that you do not bring your child along with you unless absolutely necessary. Time slots will be in 15 minute intervals. The appointment time sheet will be available from next week. We look forward to catching up with you.
Our Body
Over the next few weeks we will be finding out about our body. We have got our skeleton out of the cupboard and looked at all the bones that are hiding inside our body. We have even chalked pictures of our skeleton, take a look. Here’s a short video to watch at home, click here.
Finally, we have learnt a new sound this week ‘s’ AND we have been learning how to write it - ‘slither down the snake’. Have a go at home and don’t forget to use duck fingers to hold your pencil.
Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you on Monday, hopefully for a sunny week.
Stay safe and God Bless
Barbara