In F2 we have been very creative with our new space theme.  We have been learning about pointillism.  We looked at some pointillism pictures by some famous artists, then used our computer as well as different books to look at different images of space.  Then we were ready to create our own pointillism pieces using cotton buds and paint.  We started by decorating stars using pointillism, then moved onto creating our own space scenes.  We are very proud of our art!

The children in F2 have had lots of fun celebrating and learning about Bonfire Night.  Our literacy has been based around firework poetry.  We began the week sharing our own experiences of Bonfire Night.  We read the story of Guy Fawkes and talked about the different ways that we celebrate on 5th November.  Then we watched different types of colourful fireworks, spinning Catherine wheels and roaring bonfires on our screen, talking about the shapes, colours and sounds and writing a list of describing words.  Next we had lots of fun pretending to be fireworks, then we used these actions as part of some fantastic performance poetry.  We have also written our own wonderful firework poems using the sound word vocabulary that we generated.

In maths we have been focusing on accurate counting of objects and finding the number 1 more.  We have practised this by making our own firework rockets using the cubes.  We have also practised writing our numbers in sparkling firework sand.  

We have been very creative in our room this week, making firework art in a variety of different ways.  The children have been paint rolling, using both oil and chalk pastels to create different effects and we have also made 3D firework rocket models.  The children have enjoyed scrimbling different firework shapes in sand and drawing them in chalk on the ground in our outdoor area.

The children in F2 have had lots of fun engaging in our Autumn theme.  We collected lots of Autumn artefacts on walks for our discovery table.  We have looked at them carefully and made observational drawings and transient art.  The children shared what they know about Autumn and we thought of some questions about Autumn to explore.  In literacy, we shared the story of Owl Babies.  The children loved re-enacting the story – we were even lucky enough to have Bill the owl visiting our classroom!  We have been labelling characters and writing speech bubbles.  

We have been a very creative class, making playdough hedgehogs, painting Autumn trees and making leaf rubbing pictures.  In our outdoor space we have enjoyed conker rolling, pumpkin bashing to help our fine motor skills and making leaf collages.  We have been learning about harvest time: inside our classroom we have a bakery role play and outdoors we enjoyed our fruit and vegetable stall.

In maths we have been concentrating on numbers to 5.  We have been recognising numbers, comparing quantities (saying which group has more or fewer) and finding the number 1 more than an object.  We have filled number bags with conkers, sang Autumn counting songs and made a huge five frame outside to fill with objects for counting.

The children have made a great start with their reading and phonics and have shown great enthusiasm for our newly stocked class library with its beautiful new selection of books.  Keep enjoying reading at home and having fun with books!

 

Here in EYFS our current topic is ‘People Who Help Us’.  In F2 we began by talking about all of the people who help us in different ways.  The children have taken a particular interest in firefighters  so we have been doing lots of firefighter role play outdoors and learning about firefighters in literacy.  We have been making our own non fiction books all about fire fighters too and are focusing on writing simple sentences independently using our phonics and tricky words. On the creative table we have been painting fire engines and making fire collages.  

 We have been talking about times when we have been ill and the people who helped us.  The children are loving our doctor’s role play area and our hospital small world area and have acted out lots of stories.  

 In our discovery area we are thinking all about looking after God’s wonderful world by recycling.  We are sharing books about recycling and sorting different recyclable materials.

 In our maths area we have been playing lots of games to help our number recognition: bingo is a firm favourite!  We are counting groups of objects and comparing the quantities.  Some of us have even started counting in twos.  We are also adding and subtracting using objects.

 You can help your child in their learning at home by practising counting backwards from 20, as well as saying the number that is one less/fewer than a number.  Please continue helping your child to practise their tricky words that were sent home and to read their book for a short time each night.  Also look for writing opportunities throughout the day to build your child’s writing confidence: can your child help you to write a shopping list?  A sign for the door?  A little note or card for a family member?  Remember that  we love to share your home learning on Tapestry.

We  have been learning all about the Chinese New Year.  We have looked at photos and videos of Chinese celebrations and shared Chinese artefacts in our classroom.  We listened to the story of how the different Chinese years were named after animals and we moved around like the different creatures.  We have made pictures of Chinese dragons, made Chinese lanterns and written Chinese New Year cards.  We loved our Chinese food tasting session, talked about our preferences and used describing words.  We are excited to try some dragon dancing in our PE lesson too!

In F2 we are preparing for Christmas with our new ‘Advent and Christmas’ theme. We have a special class advent calendar of hanging stars, each with a little deed for us to do for that day: it could be saying a prayer for our family or sharing our toys. We are reading the stories about the first Christmas from our class Bible and acting them out in a variety of ways. 

We have a travelling crib which is coming home with a child each night. Inside is a stable scene, candle and a book of reflection for you to share as a family within your homes. We hope that you enjoy using them together.

We have had lots of fun in EYFS exploring the current season in our Autumn theme.  Here in F2 we started with an Owl Babies focus.  Baby Owl Bill actually flew into our classroom to answer our questions!  We made junk modelling owls and acted out the story using story spoons. We worked together to use our phonics to write a list of ideas for exciting new foods for Bill to try, as he was so fed up with mice!  We are now reading the story of the Enormous Turnip.  We loved acting out the story and will soon be retelling the story using a story map.  We have also been finding out facts about Autumn and making our own Autumn books.

In maths we have been doing lots of counting using autumn objects such as conkers and pine cones.  We have been using conkers to do some simple addition by combining two groups to see how many we have altogether.  We have also been doing lots of number recognition games, such as ‘I draw a number on your back’.

In our creative area we have loved exploring different Autumn colours, through paints and colour mixing.  We have been looking carefully at the world around us, then making pictures and collages of autumn trees.  We have been cutting leaves and leaf shapes to develop our scissor skills.  In our playdough area we have exploring making different patterns using a variety of autumn artefacts.  We have also used a range of materials to make our own hedgehogs.

Our children went on autumn walks and collected a range of Autumn artefacts for our discovery table.  We have been examining and describing them.  We are now using them to create our own ‘transient’ works of art, just like Andy Goldsworthy!  

We have been busy in our outdoor learning environment too.  We have been making lots of fabulous recipes and Autumn soups in our mud kitchen.  We are currently having lots of fun in our fruit and vegetable stall roleplay area, acting out the different roles and taking turns. A busy, happy class!

 

The children in F2 have made a great start to the school year.  We have been settling into our classroom rules and routines.  We have started the year with an ‘All About Me’ topic.  We have been talking about ourselves, our families, our likes and dislikes.  We have looked carefully at ourselves in mirrors and talked about similarities and differences.  We have made self portraits and pictures of our friends using paints, oil pastels and collage materials- we are learning to make decisions about what materials to choose and to be more independent. 

In literacy we have been reading the story of Elmer and reflecting on how, just like Elmer, we are all different and special.  We have made special houses for Elmer in our construction area and in the crates outdoors.  We have acted out the story, retold the story using a story map and made our very own characters for the story.  We have been making labels for our characters by listening to the first sounds in words and recording them. 

In maths we have done lots of work on number recognition, ordering numbers and counting groups of objects by lining them up and pointing at each one as we count. 

Over on our discovery table we are thinking all about our five senses.  We have been used torches, colour paddles, kaleidoscopes and viewers to think about sight and we are currently thinking about the sense of touch by describing objects in feely tubs.  We will soon be going on a listening walk around our school… and we are also looking forward to exploring our sense of taste!

Thank you to all those who attended our EYFS Curriculum Workshop, which focused on the objectives covered this year and how you can support your child at home.  Please have a go at using the Tapestry tool to share your home observations with us here at school, this insight is so valuable.

In EYFS we have followed the children’s interests in this last half term and created a topic called ‘All Creatures Great and Small”.  For the first part of the half term we have focused on minibeasts.  Our very own caterpillars arrived in the classroom and we watched them grow into beautiful butterflies. In F2 we read ‘Mad About Minibeasts’.  We had fun moving around like different minibeasts, describing them and writing our own minibeast riddles.  We have made junk modelling minibeasts and minibeast houses. We have had lots of fun searching for minibeasts both at school and at home, thank you for joining in and sharing your minibeasts on Tapestry.  In maths we have been solving minibeast number problems and using creatures to help us to find our number bonds to 10.

We have now moved on to learning all about dinosaurs.  A mysterious egg arrived in our classroom and we have been guessing what may be inside.  Our text is ‘Dinosaurs in my School’ – we will be thinking about the different kinds of mischief that dinosaurs might get up to if they visited our school!  We have been making dinosaur caves in the crates outside and painting fantastic dinosaur pictures.  In our role play area we have our very own explorers’ jeep for dinosaur hunting!  We are keeping our eyes open for strange happenings…

We followed the children’s interests and have focused on the story of the Three Little Pigs for the second half of our Traditional Tales topic.  We have had fun learning and acting out the story in a variety of ways.  We made a story map together of the story, then changed parts to make our own tale: The Three Little Jellyfish.  Luckily they managed to escape from the Big Bad Shark!  This topic has generated some  fantastic writing, both in school and at home.  Other highlights have been our outdoor construction site, where our builders have been hard at work making houses for the pigs, as well as some fantastic houses made in our junk modelling area.  Our children have also made some very creative puppets of the characters, deciding themselves what type of puppet that they would make and how they would do it.  In maths we have focused on heavier and lighter and have been weighing different materials using our scales, making predictions first.  We are also counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and beginning to use this skill to solve simple number problems, like counting groups of sticks.  We have also been measuring the pigs’ sticks using cubes and rulers.

In our discovery area we have followed on our work about plants and growing by thinking about healthy food.  We have looked carefully at a variety of fruits and vegetables and discussed healthy choices.  We are currently designing healthy meals and shopping lists for the three little pigs.

We are thinking all about Spring and growing here in EYFS.  We have been looking carefully at different plants as well as seeds, bulbs and roots.  We are doing lots of planting, both indoors and out.  We followed a set of instructions to grow cress seeds and we have filled our garden area with beautiful flowers.  In literacy we are continuing our growing theme by reading Jack and the Beanstalk.  We have been retelling the story in a variety of different ways.  We have even had a special visit from Jack himself in our classroom!  We are going to be retelling the story using a story map and then writing our own version of the story with a twist.  In maths we are continuing to practise our addition: we have been adding together the prices of flowers in our flower shop role play area.  We have also been halving objects by sharing them equally in two groups.  We have divided up different sets of magic beans between two people.  We have also used our halving skill to help us to halve up the snap cards to play the game.  We have loved building castles for the giant in the construction are, the junk modelling area and in the crates area.  

The children in EYFS are really enjoying our Under the Sea topic.  In F2 we have been reading Commotion in the Ocean.  We have been looking at the different describing words, moving like the sea creatures and making the sea creature noises with our musical instruments.  We have been writing our own riddles for under the sea creatures: using our phonics and tricky words to write a set of clues so that our friends can guess the sea creature.  We have also been making our own Under the Sea books in the writing area.  In maths we have been adding and subtracting in many different ways: using bead strings, objects and by drawing pictures to help us.  We are also halving groups of objects: we are dividing up groups of shells between two mermaids.

 

We have mermaids and mermen in our role play area too.  We have used our own artwork to create an underwater world and made ourselves tails from shimmering fabric.  We have engaged in underwater small world play both indoors and out, and enjoyed making submarines with the crates.  In the discovery area we are looking closely at shells, describing them and making observational drawings.  There has been some amazing creativity coming from our creative area as the children have imagined what creatures could be living down in the deep, dark sea.

 

In EYFS we have been learning about how Lent is a very special time when we prepare for Easter.  In our RE lessons we have been reading Bible stories about how kind Jesus was to everybody.  Jesus loves everyone and we are trying to be more like him.  We have thought about what we can do to be more like Jesus during Lent.  We all thought of a kind deed and hung it from our Lent tree.  What kind deed could you do at home today?

Here at St Mary’s we promote Tameside’s Talking Together initiative, which is designed to encourage speaking and listening skills amongst young people.  Talking effectively is so important for children to be successful readers, writers and in other areas of learning.  In school we create lots of opportunity for talk within our lessons and our daily routines.  Please visit Talking Together Tameside and Glossop for more information.

This month’s theme is the brilliance of books.  Reading helps to develop children’s listening and attention skills, their understanding and their spoken language.  This month’s challenge is to share a variety of books with your child at home: you can share home favourites, share our school library books and even take a trip to Denton Library.  Please share what you have read with us at school using Tapestry or your school reading record.  In school, we will be sharing and re-enacting lots of ‘Under the Sea’ books to match our theme.  Can you find any under the sea books to share?

We have loved learning all about winter during this half term.  We have read non-fiction books about winter, looked at how to use a contents page and made our own winter book.  Now we are focusing on the story of Stick Man.  We have retold the story through play and by following a story map and this week we are going to add a new page to the adventure.  We have had lots of different writing opportunities, including writing Stick Man speech bubbles and making Lost posters to help the Stick Lady Love to find him.  We have also enjoyed sharing our favourite Julia Donaldson books from home and telling the class all about them.

In maths, we have been counting backwards from 20. Try practising this at home, can you count backwards without skipping out any numbers?  We have also been finding the number one more and fewer than a number using objects.  Last week we started doubling using snowballs.  We can also double using our fingers!

We have been very creative, making winter paintings and pictures, making play dough snowflakes and snowmen.  We have used our camera to take photos of our own creations too.  Indoors and outdoors we have been playing and experimenting with ice: making predictions and asking questions about what is happening.  We have also been thinking about the birds in this icy weather.  We followed a set of instructions to make bird feeders which we have hung in our outdoor space and wrote our own shopping lists for the things that we needed to buy to make them.

We have been as busy as Santa’s elves here in EYFS!  We have been busy preparing for our “Nursery Rhyme Nativity”: singing and speaking in our loud, confident voices.  We are really looking forward to our performances.  

In literacy we have been reading the story of ‘Dear Santa’.  We are coming up with our own ideas to add our own pages to the story.  We have also been writing Christmas lists, letters to Santa and writing our own Christmas cards.  We have used speech bubbles and written our own little books to retell the story of the first Christmas.  In maths we have been ordering numbers to 10, 20 and beyond, as well as sequencing random numbers within 20.  We have been counting sounds accurately by playing an online game to count cracker bangs.  If you google ‘Topmarks Christmas Maths’ there are a range of fun activities in the 4-7 year old category.  In our discovery area we have been sorting and describing a range of Christmas decorations and objects.  In the construction area we have been designing and making sleighs for Santa.  Our creative area has been a festive glitter explosion!  We have been making tree decorations, designing cards and painting festive pictures to name but a few things.

We have loved our outdoor learning environment in this chilly months.  We created ice trays and troughs to investigate.  The children particularly enjoyed adding small world characters to the ice and creating their own stories. 

Every class at St Mary’s are preparing for Christmas by focusing on this special time of Advent.  In F2 we have made our own Advent calendar.  Each numbered star has a little task attached to it, based on prayer and kindness.  We are preparing for Christmas by carrying out a task each day.  We are reading the Bible stories about the first Christmas and our Sacred Space in class reflects this.  We have also started a travelling crib.  Each night a child will take home our special Advent bag.  Inside is a nativity scene, a candle and a special book.  We ask that you talk about the nativity scene together as a family.  We also invite you to light the candle and say a prayer together for anybody or anything that you would like to pray for in Advent.  We light the candle to remind us that Jesus is the light of the world.  Please record your prayer or share something that you talked about in the special book: be as creative as you wish!  We will share the book in class the next day.  We wish you a thoughtful and peaceful Advent.

We have have so much fun in our space topic, it has really brought out the excitement and creativity in our children.  We started the topic with some home learning where the children thought of things that they wanted to find out about space.  We used the internet and non-fiction books to answer lots of our interesting questions.  It turns out that the moon is not made of cheese after all!  Our main text was the Jill Murphy story ‘Whatever Next’.  We have acted it out and retold the story in different ways.   Baby Bear wrote us a letter asking for ideas of what to do in space; we used our phonics and our tricky words to write back to him!  We have been working hard at writing our ‘long legged giraffe’ letters: l,i,t,u,j,y.  Children have enjoyed practising these at home too.  In maths we have been identifying and describing 2D and 3D shapes.  We have hunted 3D shapes around the school and made space rockets from 3D shapes.  We have made space pictures using our 2D shapes.  We have also done lots of estimating and counting groups of objects using our moon rocks, as well as some adding by combining two groups.  We have done lots of creative activities including making cylinder  rocket models, oil pastel space scenes and play dough aliens.  Outside we have been ordering number rockets, blowing planets using our bubbles and making the International Space Station in the den making area.

To finish our autumn topic in F2 we have been thinking all about Bonfire Night.  We shared our experiences and watched firework display videos together.  We generated describing words and pretended to be fireworks, whooshing and popping and crackling!  We recited firework poems together and wrote our own firework poems based on the noise words we had listed.  We are getting good at using our phonics to have a go at writing new words.  We are trying to include finger spaces between our words too.  In our maths area we continued our firework theme by writing numbers in glitter with paintbrushes.  In the malleable area we used jewels and glittery play dough to make firework patterns.  In the creative area we have made oil pastel firework pictures and 3D rockets from cylinders.  We loved marble rolling in paint to make firework art too.  Outdoors we used the ribbons to create some fantastic firework dances, making weaving paths around each other.

Here in EYFS we have been learning all about autumn.  Our main text has been Owl Babies and we have had so much fun acting out the story and re-enacting it on our small world table.  We have been writing speech bubbles for the characters and labelling pictures of the story, using the letters we know to have a go.  We  have been very lucky to have a visit from owl baby Bill in our classroom!  We asked him lots of questions and we have exchanged letters since.  

We have been working hard learning our numbers and ordering them.  we have enjoyed conker rolling games which help us to practise identifying numbers.  We have also been using autumn objects to help us with our counting (using our pointing finger) and also adding two groups.

Thank you for all of your autumn artefacts, our table is overflowing!  We have enjoyed pattern making with them, looking carefully at them and making observational drawings.  We have also made owls, painted autumn trees and sang lots of autumn songs.

The children of F2 are settling well into our classroom routines and are exploring our learning environment.  We have enjoyed thinking about how we are different and special, just like Elmer the elephant.  We have acted out the story of Elmer and retold it using a story map.  We have even made our own Elmer books.  As another part of our topic we are exploring our senses.  We have talked about seeing and used describing words while looking through kaleidoscopes and viewers.  We have thought about the sense of touch and described items that we have put into feely tubs.  This week we are going on a listening walk to see what we can hear around our school.  In RE we are thinking all about how God made our wonderful world, including us!

Thank you for taking part in our number hunt at home.  We have enjoyed sharing all of the numbers that we have found in class.  You can continue to support your child by helping them to recognise numbers first to 10, then to 20 and beyond, and placing them in the correct order.

All of the children have settled so well into F2.  We have been familiarising ourselves with the class routines and how we use the areas in our indoor and outdoor learning environment.  We have begun our ‘All About Me’ topic by thinking about ourselves and what makes us different and special.  We have made self portraits, talked about our favourite books and songs, and roleplayed our own experiences in the home corner.  We are also learning about the story of Elmer and thinking about how fantastic it is to be unique!  Lots more fun and learning to follow…

As part of our bear topic, today all of the children in EYFS have enjoyed a teddy bears’ picnic.  To prepare, children in F2 have followed instructions to bake cakes for everybody and written lists of picnic food for teddy bears.  We have had lots of fun, singing teddy bear songs and playing games with our bears.  The bears have also enjoyed playing in our classroom: children chose to make dens for them in the construction area.  We have also been writing about them in our writing area.  If only our bears came into school with us every day!

A fantastic day was had by all at the EYFS sports day.  The sun shone for us and everybody was smiling!  All children participated in the beanbag balancing race, pick up race, egg and spoon race, and the running race (a firm favourite).  But the competitive spirit was most evident in the mum and dad races!  Our children showed excellent sportsmanship and were fantastic at cheering each other on.  

We had some special visitors in our classroom  who were teaching us about the importance of washing our hands properly.  We learnt about different germs and how they are spread.  We used special light boxes to look at where the dirt was on our hands that we couldn’t see.  We learnt how to wash our hands properly and we designed posters on our writing table to teach other people about this too.

We have had a wonderful time engaging with our bears topic here in EYFS.  Our main text is Michael Rosen’s ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’.  We have shared the story, reenacted it outdoors and retold it using a story map.  Next we will be changing the story to add our very own part to it.  We have also been retelling the story on our small world table and have made our own bear hunt puppets for the puppet theatre too.  In our maths area we have been grabbing handfuls of bears and counting them out in 1s and 2s.  We have been finding more more and less than quantities of bears too.  We have also been thinking about halving by sharing fruit between 2 bears for their picnic.  We have made playdough bears, plus bear caves in the construction area and in the junk modelling.  We have shared many bear books and talked about our favourites.  It has been lovely to see so many children engaging with our topic at home and bringing in work that they have produced.  What motivated learners we have!

Last week we finished our Gingerbread Man theme in F2.  We made our own gingerbread men in the malleable area.  We designed and made different vehicles in the construction area to help the gingerbread man to escape!  In literacy, we read the story from the sly fox’s point of view.  We learnt that he had no money and was so hungry, but the shop keeper refused to help him, so he ate the gingerbread man.  We came up with a list of suggestions for what the fox could have done instead: these included checking his piggy bank, eating at his friend’s house, going fishing, and even getting a job!  We wrote letters to the fox to tell him all of our ideas.

This week we started our new bear topic and are currently reading ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’.  We invite you to share different bear stories with your child at home.  The children can bring in their favourite bear stories to share with the class.

We have followed children’s interests on the investigation table after several children brought back shells from their holidays.  We have been drawing shells and pebbles, describing them and sorting them.

We have been busy planting and growing here in EYFS.  We have grown cress, sunflowers and beans. We made cress diaries to record how our seeds changed.  We are hoping to grow our very own beanstalk, just like Jack!  We have also created a garden area in our outdoors where we are looking after our new plants. 

 We have been thinking about God’s wonderful creation in F2.  We have been on a nature walk, looking at all of the wonderful things around us that we are thankful for.

F2 discovered that our mystery visitor that messed up our classroom was, in fact, the Gingerbread Man!  We had a letter and book from the Little Old Lady telling us that he had ran away.  We made Lost posters for her which described him.  We have learnt how to retell the story using a story map.  This week we decided to bake the little Old Lady (and ourselves) new gingerbread men and we have written out instructions for how to do it. 

 In maths we just HAD to eat some gingerbread men to make a pictogram!  Our pictogram showed how many people ate the head first, how many ate a leg first and who went for an arm.  The vast majority of our class are head biters!  We have been adding and subtracting using the raisins on gingerbread men; we have been measuring gingerbread men using a variety of materials and we have been making repeating patterns.

Our creative class have been making stick puppets to retell the story in our puppet theatre area.  We have designed our own gingerbread men and made maps of the Gingerbread Man’s journey.  We learnt a song about the story and performed it with instruments.  We used beebots in ICT to programme a set of instructions to help the gingerbread man to reach the river.  Over in our construction area we have designed and made bridges so that the poor Gingerbread Man does not end up in the fox’s mouth!  We have also loved taking on the different story roles in our outdoor learning environment.

Yesterday we got back from our lunch to find that our writing table was covered with tiny, dusty footprints and a trail of sweets and sprinkles!  The children and staff are very confused about who our mystery visitor could have been that made such a mess of our classroom.  We have been gathering clues and writing lists of suspects. It has caused a real buzz in our classroom.  Suggestions of the culprit have ranged from the elves from The Elves and the Shoemaker or Burglar Bill, to Donald Trump!  The investigation continues…

We had a fabulous trip to Cockfields Farm.  Thank you so much to our amazing helpers!  We fed lots of different animals as well as holding, stroking and cuddling lots more.  We met alpacas, pigs, chameleons and even a boa constrictor!  We learnt lots and had an amazing experience.  Bouncing on the trampoline together and eating our packed lunches were firm highlights too!

As part of our Spring theme we have been reading Jack and the Beanstalk.  We found magic beans in our classroom which grew overnight into a huge beanstalk.  We were lucky enough to have Jack himself visit our classroom!  We thought of lots of interesting questions that we could ask him.  We have been retelling the story in different ways and will be writing our own version of the story.  and We are also investigating plants.  We have been looking carefully at different plants and we will be growing our own plants too.

Ever since our Easter performance we have been music mad!  We have enjoyed using the musical instruments outside and are still singing our Easter songs.  We have been performing them on our stage too.  The children in our class have also been making their own puppets in our creative area, so we are following this interest and have set up our own puppet theatre.

During Holy Week we focused on the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection on the first Easter.  We loved celebrating Easter with our Easter bonnet parade, thank you parents and carers for helping us with our hats!  In our classroom we have been thinking about changes that happen in spring: flowers growing, animals being born, and a little bit of sunshine at last!  We have been writing all about spring, making observational drawings of spring flowers, and designing our own Easter Eggs.  Outdoors we have had lots of fun planting and playing with soil in our mud kitchen.  We have been adding and taking away using flowers.  We are all learning to order and recognise to 20 and beyond.  Some of us are learning to count groups of objects by counting in twos.

As part of our People Who Help Us topic, we invited our lollipop lady to visit our class.  We all made her thank you cards and presented them to her.  We had thought about questions that we wanted to ask her, and she told us all about her job.  We even got to hold her stick!