Class One have had another busy day today. We enjoyed looking through quite a few of the Home Learning Journey books this morning and sharing pictures and information from home. We have worked together to play lots of number and shape games too and some children have also worked with adults to carry out focused number tasks. The children recalled Letters and Sounds from previous days and have found out about the letter ‘n’ today. We also decorated our gingerbread people and have spent time playing and sharing together in our outdoor area.

Everyone in Class One has had a lovely day so far! The children have been busy doing Letters and Sounds activities (lots of letter recognition activities and even a spelling quiz for the Year 1’s). They have also been very busy baking Gingerbread people. The children enjoyed helping to get all of the ingredients ready and mixing them altogether. Some children volunteered to show photos of their family and talk about who is in their family. At the same time, some children enjoyed learning their numbers through a game called ‘Run, run as fast as you can’ relating to the Gingerbread man story. The Year 1 children worked with myself during assembly time this morning to explore a set of instructions for baking Gingerbread people. The children needed to work together to decide upon the correct order of the instructions and used their Letters and Sounds knowledge to read the instructions carefully.

This afternoon, we are looking forward to PE in the hall – the children will be exploring different ways of moving in and out of each other and being careful not to bump into each other. We will also be getting out mats for the children to move in and out of.

The children were hoping to bring their gingerbread people home tonight but these will be home tomorrow – once we have had time to decorate them!

The children have had a great day in Class One! They have all enjoyed getting to know each other and have been very busy! This morning we read the book ‘The Rainbow Fish’ and discussed the meaning of the story. We talked a lot about friendship. The children told each other their ideas about what makes a good friend and we made a record of their ideas. They all had lovely ideas such as being kind, being helpful, sharing toys and being happy together. The children then started to decorate a scale to make a large class fish on a display board.

The children have shared books and have enjoyed circle time together. They were all very good in the hall at lunch time and had a good time playing on the field together.

Letters and Sounds – we looked at the letter ‘s’ today. We made the ‘ssss’ sound and found out the letter name. Lots of children tried very hard to form the letter ‘s’ in their Busy Bee books. The Year One children enjoyed working together to write a list of words that have ‘s’ at the start or somewhere in the word. They were very good at being organised and worked mostly independently and tried really hard to make sure their handwriting was clear.

We all enjoyed some indoor and outdoor child initiated time towards the end of the day.