Flower Power

Today was so much fun as we got to bring our teddies into school and some of us had dressed them up using the 'flower power' theme. Cool man! We shared snack time with them and got to show them off in a whole school assembly. Iris won the best dressed teddy in 1MB. Well done Iris!

Literacy this week has also had a teddy theme as our work has been based on the story 'Where's my teddy?' We have retold the story in our own words, written descriptive sentences and created our own stories about the bears getting lost.

In Numeracy we have been learning the signs < and >for greater than and less than. We know the crocodile likes to eat the larger number! We have used the signs < and >to compare objects and numicon shapes.

In Science today we were thinking about how all humans grow and change as they get older. We looked at a selection of objects that a grown up would use to look after a baby or toddler and thought about when we might have grown out of needing them. We thought about the way in which we still might change as we grow up. The best bit was when Mrs O'Gara brought her baby in so we could ask questions and really see how we have become more independent as we have grown.

We are so lucky that two teachers from Bath Spa have joined us this week. Miss Mumme and Mr Ibbet are here for two days a week initially. They have their main six week block with us after Christmas. We look forward to all the exciting activities we will be doing with them.

We also welcome James to our class. He was even brave enough to stand up in front of the whole school to say hello to everyone. What a great smile you have James.

We have a busy week next week so please check the news letter for details. The first event is on Monday when the school calender photos are being taken. Each child needs to wear a t-shirt in their house colour and something black on their bottom half. Our class theme is cycling so any props would be most welcome as well. The overall theme is the Olympics.

PLEASE continue to bring in small glass jars for Green Day on Thursday. We only have 15 at the moment. Baby food jars are the best! Thank you.

Harvest Festival

A big thank you to everyone who kindly donated some produce for Julian House as part of our Harvest Festival Celebration. The whole school ended today with an assembly where 1MB sang Cauliflowers Fluffy with the rest of Key Stage 1. They were brilliant!

In Numeracy this week we have continued with Number formation work and have been writing 'teen' numbers, matched numbers to repeating patterns and used the language and symbols of addition. We have been taking care to say 'teen' rather than 'ty' at then end of the numbers. E.g. 13, 14, 15 etc.

In Literacy we have been learning the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and can now retell the story in detail using actions. We can use the correct language for story telling such as 'one day' and 'once upon a time'. We also talked about using linking word in our own writing such as 'soon, next and eventually'. Today we wrote about the three bears in the story and what they were like.

This week we also took part in Bike it. It was loads of fun! We had to cycle or scoot around cones. An instructor explained what to do and the some Year 5s and 6s came to help too.

As part of Green Day on the last morning of term, please can the children bring in as many small glass jars with lids as you can spare as part of a class recycling activity. Baby food jars and jam jars would be great. Thank you.