Class 2 have been using story stones to think of their own dinosaur facts! They were able to think of a fact, verbalise it, count the words and then write it down. They could also extend their thinking by explaining verbally more about their fact!

For example,

Alex told me “a stegosaurus has long spikes on his tail to fight away a Tyrannosaurus rex because he’s trying to eat him with his long, sharp teeth because he’s a carnivore”

Kai: “He hunts meat like other dinosaurs that’s why he has sharp claws.”

Layla G:  “palaeontologists find the fossils, that’s how we know they were really here ages and ages ago.”

In today’s P.E we were focusing on direction and speed.

We focused on the vocabulary forwards, backwards, sideways and direction. We talked about a car changing direction on a road and we practised this with our bodies.

We played lots of games which encouraged us to listen to the instruction and move our bodies accordingly.

We have had the best final week at school in the run up to Christmas.

We have

Made gorgeous decorations for our Christmas tree

Came back to school in our pyjamas when it was dark and had a cosy Christmas night in with a Christmas story, hot chocolate and lots of Christmas crafts

Created a seasons calendar ready for 2025

Performed our Christmas show, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, to our grown ups and blew everyone away with how confident and amazing we were!!

Attended our Christmas party full of fun and games, danced our hearts out followed by some lovely party food

Made our own Christmas trees

Joined in on Christmas jumper day and also designed our own Christmas jumpers

Created the cutest Rudolph cards for our grown ups

Wrote Christmas cards to our friends and family

This week we have been learning all about how to keep our teeth clean and the importance of keeping our teeth clean.

I have loved seeing all of the videos being sent in from home, recapping and securing your child’s knowledge of oral hygiene!

This week we have been on a walk around our local area. We observed and compared the various buildings we seen (school, nursery, houses, shops, church, metro station, and even George’s Nannies bingo hall) and we discussed how they are similar and different. We spotted many 2D shapes and we were able to discuss how we know it was that shape I.e. the road sign had three sides, therefore its a triangle. We observed the weather and talked about why it was very important we were wrapped up warm.

When we returned to school we recapped and discussed our walk and then made maps of our local area. We then challenged ourselves to recall which country and town we lived in, remembering that we must listen very carefully to the language used (country\town).