English
Last Weeks Library Visit
We went to the Library last Monday and Mrs Nuttall read a story, chosen by a member of our class. We then all chose a book to take home from the library to keep in school, ready for our independent reading time!
Art & Design
Printing!
Sticking to the theme of Leaf Man and Autumn, Miss Brown came up with a lovely idea for Willows today. She asked them to print with the leaves they found outside and this created a lovely Christmas tree picture. We will be adding baubles with our fingers when they are Read more…
English
Describing our leaves
Today Willows went out into the school grounds and chose a leaf from the ground. They brought it back inside and used their adjectives to describe how the leaf looked, felt and sounded when we moved it. We got lots of adjectives such as ‘crunchy’, ‘green’ and ‘scaly’. We Read more…
English
Leaf Man read in Kaden’s Garden.
We started our topic off by reading Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert in Kaden’s Garden. It was such a wonderful spot to read this book. As we looked up, there were leaves falling all around us. Leaf Man even landed on Mrs Nuttall – she was very surprised! After reading Read more…
Growth Mind-set
Mental Health Awareness Week
Willows talked about what makes us happy, sad, angry and anxious. We learnt a lot of new things about our friends and it was nice to talk about our feelings. It was really exciting to hear some of the things that made them happy and we discussed ways we could Read more…
English
Books for our English over this year.
We have had some parents asking for a list of books we are going to be looking at over the year. These books support our English and our topic lessons so please, if you can nip to the library to have a look at them, that would be brilliant! Read more…
English
Meerkat Mail
It was a lovely start to our Monday morning. We read Meerkat Mail in pairs and as a class and looked at the different postcards within this book. Some children found it funny, some children related to the main character, Sunny. Working in pairs was great because it gave us Read more…
English
Bedtime Reading Star
In Willows we have a lovely opportunity for you and your child to sit back, relax and have a lovely hot chocolate each whilst enjoying a book or two at bedtime. Each week we will choose someone that has shown perseverance, hard work and has been an asset to Read more…
Mathematics
One more and one less
We have been practising one more and one less and started by making numbers with cubes. Some of us went outdoors to use our 100 square to JUMP as high as we could to the next number. We had lots of fun and love learning outdoors!
Computing
Learning to log onto laptops
Logging onto the laptops was hard work! We had to remember how to do capital letters and remember the password sequence. All managed to do it with the help from an adult or a friend! Whilst others were logging onto laptops, some children explored what we had on Read more…