To infinity and beyond!
Some of our amazing space-themed provision this week! Creating moon rock paintings and making shape rockets! Lots of opportunities for collaborative learning and language development!
Moving pictures
In Design Technology we will making some pictures with moving parts. This week we explored slider tools and created a rabbit in a magicians hat!
Writing sentences
Reception have been working hard in phonics learning new digraphs, they are now beginning to write dictated sentences!
Programming a robot: buttons
We had great fun today exploring the buttons on the Beebot and Robot Mouse to give simple commands!
Comparing animals
In Science we have been comparing animals. Do you know the difference between a reptile and amphibian? Which animal family has wings and a beak? Reception created some animal collages which stimulated discussion!
Space
Our English text is “The Way Back Home” about meeting a new friend on the moon! We have had lots of exciting space-themed provision to explore!
Year 1 Spelling Bee
Congratulations to the winner and runners-up of the first Spelling Bee heats. Who will represent Mary Howard at the TSSMAT finals in the summer?
Party time!
Our Christmas party started with two special visitors!
We played lots of games and enjoyed our party snacks.
Merry Christmas from Maple class!
Christmas lunch
Our Christmas lunch was delicious today! We enjoyed the crackers, ice-cream and singing The Twelve Days of Christmas together!
The Nativity
An amazing morning in Church today bringing the nativity story to life!
Everyone looked fantastic in their costumes and the singing was beautiful. Thanks to Oak and Willow for helping us with our performance!
Panto fun!
We had a great time at St Andrew’s Church watching Rick Whittington! Lots of laughs and audience participation!
Dear Santa
We used the story of “Dear Santa” to create our own pages for a class book.