Newsletter 26.05.17

In F2 this week there has been a lot of dressing up and exciting fairytale role-play. "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales." It's hard to argue with Albert Einstein! So the teachers have been reading a lot of stories, further fostering this budding interest. We will be having a dress up day on Tuesday too (see poster attached).

In Literacy this week the children have been building on their understanding and retell of The Gingerbread Man.  Using masks, the children have acted out the story.  With some reminding they were able to remember the refrains. Next week we will be drawing our story maps, ready to retell The Gingerbread Man with increasing independence and expression. Our end goal is to make some alterations and adapt the story to make it our own.

The children also made their own gingerbread people cookies and wondered whether they would run away.  Just to make sure they didn't, many children ate the legs first! The children also added their own unique facial expressions and buttons to their cookies using 'icing pens'.

For a simple Cookie cutter recipe we used -

200g softened butter
1/2 c sugar
2 c flour
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp ginger powder

In preparation for our up and coming EYFS show, the children have started making decorations - gingerbread men decorations ofcourse! Many of the children were challenged using scissors to cut out their shapes but persevered, adding smaller shapes to create expressive faces and fancy buttons. You can admire them hanging in the F2 classroom. We also enjoyed a gingerbread man maths game.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/gingerbread-man-game

On Thursday MP1 invited us to watch the dress rehearsal of their show The Goblin Next Door. The stage and costumes looked fabulous, bright and exciting.  We were very impressed with the sensational singing and confidence of the children. It will be our turn on stage soon enough!

F2 enjoyed taking a close look at some tadpoles Ms Sara found.  We watched a short time lapse video of the amazing transformation that tadpoles go through to become frogs.  The children also found a dead dragon fly outside that we carefully put into a bug catcher to get a better look at. If you find anything interesting during your weekend adventures, we'd love have a look at school.

Have a great weekend!

Notices:

Dress Up on Tuesday 30th May -

Library - Please return Library books to school on Tuesday and put them in the basket outside the classroom.