Term 2, Week 6
The children have had a lovely week getting in to the Christmas spirit.
In our Literacy lessons this week we have been learning about lists, what these are and how and why we use one. Our learning challenge this week was to write a letter to Santa, including a list of what we would like him to get us for Christmas. We thought carefully about the type of language we needed to include in a letter. On Friday we took a lovely walk to the local postbox to post our letters off to Santa!
In Maths we have been learning about 'Shapes with 4 sides' and the children completed the following activities:
Identify and name shapes with 4 sides - this activity involved the children sorting a variety of shapes into two different hoops, one hoop was for shapes with 4 sides and the other hoops was for all other shapes.
Combine shapes with 4 sides - for this activity, the children were provided with different shaped pieces of paper. They were encouraged to identify the shape of the paper and then fold this paper to see which other shapes they could create. When the paper was unfolded, they were also given the opportunity to identify the shapes created by the folds.
Shapes in the environment - this activity challenged the children to identify which shapes they could see in real life, such as 'square' windows and 'rectangle' doors.
For PSHE we learned about 'diversity'. We played a game which involved the children sitting in a circle. They took turns stating a fact about themselves such as "I have brown eyes" and if this fact was true for anyone else, they would stand up and all switch places. We discussed the importance of us all being 'different' and how this makes us unique.
Our Understanding of the World lesson this week was all about the traditional Christmas story of Mary and Joseph. The children enjoyed learning about Christmas, and were able to make links to our play, as they recognised some of the people from the story.
NEXT WEEK:
ALL children should now have bought in their costume for the Christmas play. If your child has not brought their costume in to school please ensure you have done this by Monday morning as we will be doing a dress rehearsal during the week and performing to the rest of the school.
IMPORTANT:
Our Apples and Pears have been working really hard on their Christmas play, and they are excited to perform this to parents on Monday 15th December at 9:30am. We look forward to seeing you there.
Have a lovely weekend,
The EYFS Team.