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Category : Foundation Stage
This week in F2, we have enjoyed sharing all our Easter news, exploring Spring and celebrating the festival of Holi.
We went on a walk around the school grounds looking for signs of Spring… we spotted blossom on the trees, saw beautiful green leaves and even heard some birds singing. Then, in literacy we wrote “I can see…” sentences, thinking about all the beautiful things we saw.
On Wednesday we all dressed in our brightest colours to celebrate Holi … which is a festival celebrated by Hindus. It marks the start of spring and is sometimes known as the Festival of Colour. It’s all about getting together and having fun, no matter who you are. Everyone chases each other with dry powder paint and coloured water.
We embraced Holi, by singing, dancing and exploring lots of ways to use colour…we painted, we chalked and used dry powder paint on sheets and the pavement…though some of us did get it on ourselves! We all had such a happy time.
In maths we recapped our learning of doubles, odd and even numbers and we have been practising our number bonds to 10.
In PSHE the children shared their bedtime routines. First, we chatted about what they do before bed, what they wear, what time they go to bed, if they have a story, a special toy to cuddle and if any of them say their prayers … it was lovely for us all to hear and share our different routines. Then, we learnt about how important sleep is, as that’s the time when our bodies grow and repair.
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Home School Diary Wk B 18th March
We hope you all have a lovely Easter !
This week in F2 has been a very busy week!
In Literacy, we have been retelling the story of Oliver’s Vegetables through story mapping. We also looked at a set of instructions for making a vegetable soup. In small groups, we took it in turns peeling and chopping some vegetables from our story to make and taste our very own soup! After following a recipe to make our own soup, we then wrote our own instructions the following day to show others how to make it.
On Tuesday we performed our Easter Bonnet Parade to the whole school in the morning and then to parents/carers in the afternoon. The dancing was absolutely amazing and the children decorated some wonderful Easter Bonnets. We had so much fun!
On Wednesday, we got creative and made our own Easter cards for someone special to us. The children thoroughly enjoyed this.
The children arrived in colourful, crazy socks on Thursday to raise awareness for World Down Syndrome Day. The children attended an assembly surrounding the topic to get a better understanding and really enjoyed learning about it.
Finally, Friday was the last day before the Easter Half Term. We watched a lovely Easter Service by Years 3/4 and had fun hunting for Easter eggs!
We had a lovely day celebrating Easter and World Down Syndrome Day with our families.
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The children have made so much progress in the Hub, it has really been a busy term. Lola has enjoyed playing on the trampoline. She has managed to get the courage to go on the trampoline independently . She did a lot of laughing and jumping.
Connor is now able to put 1 to 20 into the correct order all by himself.
He can now also put the alphabet in the correct order independently.
He loves getting all the jigsaws and putting them all together. He gets so excited when he puts the last piece in. The progress is absolutely amazing.
Elliot enjoyed making his Easter hat. He loved showing all the other Hub children.
Connor has mastered the scooter and can whizz so fast now it’s hard to catch him.
So great to see all the children engaging and joining in together.
Yes, you’ve read that right! We have been tasting the food from the Gruffalo story in F1!
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Home School Diary WC 11th March 2024
We hope you have a lovely weekend, F1 Staff.
This week in F2, we have started our story, Oliver’s Vegetables.
It’s all about a boy who doesn’t like vegetables, only chips!
In literacy we have been retelling the story using our signifiers, sequencing the story, recalling the days of the week, writing sentences about what we can see in the garden (I can see mud/a bush/a pond) and finding out all about the vegetables in the story.
In maths, first we recapped our learning of 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle). We can say how we know what shape it is by counting its sides and corners. Then we learnt all about 3D shapes and their properties – cube, cuboid, cylinder and sphere.
In PE we practised for our Easter Bonnet Parade – we can’t wait for you to hear our amazing singing and see our fabulous dance moves!
On Thursday we spent time in our school library. We all enjoyed looking at all the fabulous books and sharing stories with our friends.
Friday was Red Nose Day. We all dressed in red and enjoyed lots of fun activities. We also found out about why we raise money. how it is used to help people and why it is important that we support charities like these.
As always, we have spent lots of time learning and discovering outdoors…we have been looking for signs of Spring, weeding and watering the plants that have started to grow, gaining confidence when using the climbing wall and pole, singing our days of the week song, chalking shapes and much, much more!
F1 had a great time today investigating flour, oats and fat and trying to make ‘crumble’. They loved exploring how the different ingredients felt in their fingers and how they changed when they mixed them together.
