Welcome back everyone and a Happy New Year!
Worship
We started the week by finding out about some special people who wanted to celebrate Jesus’ birth. We listened to a story called ‘A very Noisy Christmas’. Click here to watch at home. We all made lots of noise to cheer, sing and shout for Jesus! Jesus was born as a gift to all, symbolising hope, love, and salvation for everyone. Christians around the world celebrate Christmas to remember this, mirroring the joy of the angels, shepherds, and wise men who came together in Bethlehem to witness and rejoice Jesus’ birth.
On Tuesday we celebrated the Feast Day of Epiphany. Using our worship sack we all chose an object which would help us understand the scripture Matthew 2:1-12, which refers to the Magi from the East; foreign astrologers who followed a star to find and worship the newborn Jesus, bringing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Learning Landscape
This half term our ‘Learning Landscape’ has changed…we are learning all about space and our Solar System! We have already started to learn the names of the eight planets and some of their properties! We know that the sun is a hot star and planet earth only has one moon! We are well underway creating a wall display to show everything we are leaning about.
We have recreated the moon landing in one of our sand trays and also made a reading rocket planetarium, we have to use torches to see and there are stars twinkling in the darkness!
We have also been learning about ‘more’ or ‘fewer’. We have been playing a tricky game where the children have to say is Sam or Pat have more or fewer objects…we are finding the word fewer difficult to grasp but just like Sadie Spider we keep trying!
This week we have explored the shape ‘triangle’. We have been trying to tessellate lots of triangle shapes joining and fitting them to gether. One friend noticed he had made a hexagon! WOW!
Everyone has been practising their pencil hold and have been writing patterns we are getting so good…keep going everyone.
Meet Lucky Number 7
On Wednesday we met number 7! We watched the video before we started our exploration of the number.
We experienced the relationship between 7 and the other Numberblocks.
Practised counting numbers to 7 and started to use ordinal number names (first, second, third).
We noticed that 7 is also related to the number of the colours of the rainbow and the days of the week.
As with previous numbers, seven is created through adding one to the previous number, combining six and one. Each consecutive number is one more than the previous number.
I am sure you will agree that 2026 has started with some gusto! Next week will be even busier!
Have a lovely weekend everyone and I will see you all on Monday!
Stay safe and God Bless
Barbara