Amazing Animals!

Date: 14th Jan 2024 @ 4:43pm

It was lovely to have the penguins back this week as we began our new topic of ‘Amazing Animals’. The children were very happy to see each other and we had to extend our sharing time to make sure everyone had the opportunity to talk about their Christmas and New year break. 

Thank you for sending the ‘All about me’ books back to school. The penguins have enjoyed sharing these already.

Our week started with our story ‘Lost and found’. We have enjoyed adding speech to this story and by the end of the week the children had made their own story maps identifying the beginning, the middle and the end of the story. We have been learning facts about penguins and other animals that live in the cold. 

During the week we froze some of our penguin toys and then tested where the best place was to help our penguins escape. 

The children have enjoyed having water colour painting, new rainbow words, snowflakes to cut and going on a zero hunt.

Our wow words from this week have been - perseverance, liquid, solid, freeze, melt, help, zero, challenge and smile. 

In phonics we have been reading words which have either the zz, sp or sl sound in them. Next we we will be looking at words that begin with sn.

Tuesday - 

I am sure you will have heard the good news from your penguin that we have now achieved all of our class compliments (we achieve a star when visitors and staff around school see the whole class shining together) After a class vote it was decided that the penguins would like a pyjama afternoon and to watch a short film. We are planning to do this on Tuesday afternoon.

The children have asked to bring in -

warm pyjamas / onesie 

slippers (optional as school shoes will already be in school)

Teddy (small soft toy)

Please send these in a named plastic bag if they will not fit in the school book bag.