In the spirit of Paddington Bear we really enjoyed getting stuck into making our own marmalade sandwiches for our instruction writing hook yesterday. We worked so well in pairs to spread the butter and divide the marmalade up! At snack time of course we ate them with mixed reviews!

In preparation for Remembrance Day at the weekend and for our school worship on Monday we have been revisiting some of our Reception Art skills and string printing our poppies. The children used their fine motor skills very carefully to lay the strings and then printed on top of them!

The stimulation of some whole fish caused quite a stir in Art class this morning.

“I’ve never seen one of those before!” – R

We started by identifying the parts of the fish we have been learning specifically in our Science – gills, fins, scales and then had a good close look at them.

As part of our bird exploration this half term we have been turning our hand to continuous line drawing of feathers. Some us found the ‘messy’ style of this kind of drawing very tricky to get our heads around but others managed to use this style to great effect!

1TH always visit the library on Friday mornings where we love sharing a story, choosing our own text to take home and spending some time reading in the rabbit holes with our friends. It’s a highlight of our week!

What better way to explore carnivores, herbivores and omnivores than to get hands on with some animal ‘poo’. We loved asking questions about our poo, exploring what was hidden inside and then drawing the animal we thought might have produced this!

We have been looking at the greater than > , less than < and equal to = symbols this week and using them with a variety of different Maths representations. Some of us were exploring giant playing cards and others using Numicon to draw around.

We’ve been enjoying getting outside in the cold sunshine this week to build, represent and play number track games on our big number lines. We collaborated so well to play some games together and showed off our number line knowledge.

We have been talking about the Creation Story which many Christians believe in (Genesis) over the last few weeks. We have acted this out and today we all chose a day and painted a section of the story to make a big class collage! We enjoyed singing ‘He’s got the whole world in his hands’ in assembly and we could all talk about something special someone had given us and how we would treat this gift well. Many children could talk about distinct actions we could take to look after our gift of a world.