Money! Money! Money!

It has been a brilliant week! We have been practising our cross-country and have both beaten our times twice!  We have had really nice weather and we played a game with Sam on the playground.  We are learning about different types of sounds, but especially the ar sound in phonics.  Our favourite thing this week has been activity afternoon because we get to do fun things each Friday like baking with Mrs Leggett, puppets with Mrs Pimlott, forest schools with Mrs Nichols, arts and crafts with Mrs Brown and construction with Miss Holmes. In Maths we have been learning about coins and we counted them up to see how much the numbers on them made altogether.  We are really good at money!  We did some tricky work in our workbooks.  We drew toys like the old telephone in Toy Story.  We wrote about what toys look like and we used adjective words like shiny, dirty and old.  In performing arts we played music that was loud.  In French we learned about our family, like brother, sister, mummy, daddy.  Lunch was really yummy this week, my favourite was fish and chips today (Lucas).  We can't wait until next week! 

By Lucas Peacock and Harry Thomas

We will be looking at weights in Maths next week.  It would be wonderful to have children weighing and comparing various objects at home (including their toys!).  

We are also looking at boardgames in our topic lessons and have asked children to bring in their favourite board games to discuss and play.  We have been particularly inspired by Oscar's wonderful mathsy wooden spinning top board game and are hoping to design and make our own games!  Any interesting recyclable objects you may have lying around the house would be incredibly useful for your child to incorporate into their design.  

Dates for your diary:  

Wednesday, 29th January - Open Morning 9.30 -12.00pm

Friday, 31 January - House Cross Country 1.30 - 3.30pm

Cross Country note from Mrs Hood:

All parents are invited to watch our whole school house cross country event next Friday afternoon for reception to Year 6, 1.30pm start on top field (spectators may need warm layers).  Please send all children into school with their full games kit, including warm layers to wear under it, their fleeces and raincoats, and hats and gloves if it is very cold, and of course some trainers to run in.