Friday 12th January 2024

5, 4, 3, 2,1 Blast off... we had an amazing first week back in Kangaroo class. We started the week with the story 'Toys in Space'. The children quickly picked up new vocabulary to discuss the feelings of the characters. As part of our activities this week the children had the opportunity to create their own space story, draw their favourite toys that they would take into space and use the ipads to practice their letter formation. At the end of the week we created some lost posters because Sam the dog floated off into space and went missing. As a class we thought really hard about how we could search for him and the children designed and made different modes of transportation that could be used to locate him such as jet packs and hot air balloons.

In our Maths this week, the children have looked at ordering numbers and investigated one more than a given number. As part of the learning, the children had the opportunity to use the unifix cubes to create the numberblocks and place them in order. We then played a game called hide and seek where the children worked in pairs. One child hid a numberblock whilst the other guessed which one was missing.

In our topic work this week this week we started to think about where we live. The children listened to the story, 'Me on a map' and then inspired by the story created a map of their bedroom. We loved the story, 'The Naughty Bus' especially when we discovered we had some naughty buses in school that had hid. We went searching around the school to find them. Luckily we have some eagle eyed children that found all the buses. In our PE sessions, the children have started their gym unit. This week the children played a washing machine game for the warm up and then had to make different shapes with their bodies.