Welcome back to school and the second half of our Spring Term.

We hope you all had a lovely half term break.

 

This week in Maths we have been talking about who is four and who is five; we found out if more children are four or more children are five. We made birthday cakes with candles and matched the correct numeral. We have also been talking about time and sequencing. We read the story Jasper’s Beanstalk and did some activities linked to it:

 

After reading ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ we wrote about what happened on each day in the story and planted some bean seeds. We are planning on recording how they grow:

 

 

We have celebrated St David’s Day. We watched the story of how St David came to be the Patron Saint of Wales, we looked at the Welsh flag, leeks and daffodils and had Welsh cakes for snack. Following this we joined in lots of St David’s Day activities:

 

We celebrated Baba Marta Day. Many children brought in Martenitsa (bracelets). They put the Martenitsa onto their friends wrist for good luck. We looked at the Bulgarian flag and made our own Martenitsas:

 

We also celebrated Shrove Tuesday by learning about Lent, how to make pancakes and which toppings we like. We had pancake races and the children decided to use the walking stilts as medals, the cones as trophies and the crates as a podium for the winners. We finished the day off with the story ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’ and eating pancakes:

 

 

A big thank you to everyone for the fantastic costumes on World Book Day. We had a really great day. We showed our costumes, we read lots of stories and we watched a special World Book Day programme when Axel Scheffler showed us how to draw some of the characters in the books he illustrates and read us poems and stories:  

What a fantastic first week back.

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

Mrs Meddins and Mrs Dallow.