Spring 1 Week 6

Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 3:48pm

This week the children went on a visit to Joseph Jennings Court to visit the residents there as part of our community partnership. We have been learning all about care homes and we thought carefully about how we would need to behave once we were there. The children were absolutely incredible and were so kind and caring with the elderly reisdents asking them questions, sharing their favourite stories with them and creating some Valentines crafts with them. It was such a beautiful morning and the children formed some lovely friendships with the residents, they are all very excited to see them again at Easter.

We have also been learning all about Valentines this week. We learnt why it is celebrated and how it is celebrated. We have been busy making some Valentines cards and crafts which we hope you love! The children have also been enjoying learning about Valentines within provision by exploring rose petals in the water tray, our chocolate playdough, practising fine motor skills in our Valentines rice tray and painting/ drawing pictures of roses.

In Phonics we have been learning all about the letter 'k'. We have been focusing on how to pronounce the letter, objects that begin with the letter and we have practised our listening skills with some simple phonics games.

In Maths we have continued our learning on recognising and representing numbers 1-3 using our fingers, objects and by recognising amounts of 1-3 in stories.

We have also enjoyed a few mindfulness sessions to help calm us down this week and to support us managing our emotions.