12.5.23

Who can believe it is two weeks left of our summer 1 term?!
 
We have been busy as usual this week in Plum Class! In our maths learning we have revisited repeating patterns but this time we have extended our learning to cover more complex patterns such as ABBA and ABC etc. Understanding patterns is such an important skill in Reception as it helps children to make predictions about what comes next and form logical connections, an important foundation for later mathematical reasoning.
 
In our topic learning this week we have moved on from our learning about the growth of plants and vegetables and have begun to learn about those minibeasts in our garden which play such an important role in our food chain. We started by listing the minibeasts that we are familiar with and considering where we have found them in our own experience. We went out onto our school field and began to explore under logs, in between holes, beneath the soil etc and we found a huge variety of wrigglies!
We discovered that all of the minibeasts that we found were in dark, damp places, hidden from predators. We then thought carefully about the differences between the word mini beast and insect and we even learnt a new word- arachnid. Ask your child, what is an arachnid? We carefully spent time comparing arachnids, insects and other mini beasts.
 
 We are already onto 'Step 4' of our Big Bear Funk musical unit in Charanga! We are getting exceptionally great at keeping the beat of the song. To warm up our musical brains this week, we listened to 'My Promise' by Earth Wind & Fire. 

Our RE learning this week moved away from Christianity and we began learning about Judaism and the story of Hannukah. We listened to the story and thought about how this story made us feel. We then enjoyed making our own Menora's by cutting and sticking "jewels" and candles onto our template.

We continued to think about 'falling out and bullying' in our Jigsaw session this week and we have been exploring the impact of unkind words. We sorted out kind phrases and unkind phrases and Jigsaw Jenny helped us to pause, take a deep breath in and out to remind us to think before we speak. We are all so fantastic at being kind to our friends and adults who work with us!

A HUGE well done to all our plum class friends on Thursday in their first ever class assembly! Mrs Hammond and I were SO proud of you all. What a fantastic job you did! Thank you for coming along to support us.

Have a lovely weekend- don't forget to come back to school on Monday after all of those bank holidays!