On Tuesday, we had an author, Anya Tuckwell-Jassar, come to visit, who read her book Flamingos. It’s a wonderful book which contains not only a story, but facts about flamingos when you flip it around, both fiction and non-fiction.
Our sound of the week has been ‘qu’. See if you can make a list of anything starting with these letters around fhe house or wherever you are at the weekend. The children have also attempted to write their names, having practised in sand trays, on whiteboards and on each other’s backs with their fingers.
You will soon notice a little friend inside your child’s bag as the pupils have been making and decorating salt-dough bees. We hope this will stimulate more discussion and reinforcement of what they have learned. They have also been practising their fine motor skills making collage bees with balls of tissue paper and done a wonderful job needing accuracy and concentration.
In circle time, we have talked about interrupting other people while they are talking. We did this through a story about a giraffe and a very busy zebra who would not listen to the end of the giraffe’s sentence. She would run away and not listen, leaving giraffe upset and frustrated. Giraffe was trying to invite zebra to a party. Zebra learned to wait until the end of giraffe’s sentence after several attempts and learned how waiting can yield exciting results! We are all going to practise being patient and waiting until our friends have finished talking if we can!
We ended the week with a collaborative drawing to express how we feel about bees.
Next week’s topic is all about transport and the children will end the week with a teddy bear’s picnic.