This week we had a very exciting visitor join us in Rabbit Class. Elfie has returned from The North Pole, and is causing all sorts of mischief in the classroom! We have also gone fully festive in Rabbits class and have got tinsel and Christmas lights all over the place! The children did a fantastic job of decorating the tree – I’m not sure there’s any tinsel left in the whole school!
We have been very busy rehearsing for our Nativity, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t also been working really hard in our lessons too.
In English, we have been learning about expanded noun phrases. Expanded noun phrases add more detail to the noun by adding one or more adjectives. For example
- a huge tree
- some colourful sweets
- the large, royal castle
We have continued reading ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’, and we reached the part in the story when Plop is looking through the telescope at the night sky. The children thought of some fantastic adjectives to describe the night sky and put these into sentences to write a description about the sky at night.
In Maths, we have moved onto looking at shape. The Year 1s have been naming and identifying 3D shapes and Year 2s have been looking at the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
As part of our work towards becoming a Dementia Friendly School, we have selected Alzheimer’s Society as one of our chosen charities. On Wednesday, we joined people all across the UK in dressing up as elves to raise money and awareness for Alzheimer’s Society. We discussed what memory is and how it works, we also thought about what dementia is and how it is related to memory. We did some activities that helped us to understand how we need our memory for our daily lives, how the brain is used in our day-to-day lives for different tasks and about dementia and how this may affect the memory of those people living with it.
In Science we have continued our work on the seasons. This week we thought about what the weather is like in the different seasons. We thought about what clothes you would need to wear in each season and what things you might need.
We have a busy week ahead of us next week with the performance of our Nativity on Monday at 2pm & 6pm. We have been practising really hard and can’t wait to perform it for you all. We will also be going to watch the pantomime on Wednesday – oh yes we are!
