Snowy Owls (Reception and Year 1)

Miss Smith - Class Teacher	Mrs Nunn - Class Teaching Assistant	Miss Deane - Class Teaching Assistant	Ms Nicholl - Class Teaching Assistant	Mrs Lux -  Class Teaching Assistant	Mrs Oates - HLTA

 Our learning in Snowy Owls

• We have loved launching our new sea-themed topic and have shown great creativity using watercolours during choosing time. It has been wonderful to see some children collaborating on their artwork, demonstrating fantastic teamwork and imagination.
• We have been showing great progress in our handwriting this week, focusing on our beanstalk buddies! Well done Snowy Owls!
• We have had great fun acting out our stories in drawing club.
• In Mastering Number, we explored one more by creating number block staircases! Super Mathematicians!
• We have loved being polar explorers this term, exploring the lives of explorers like Ernest Shackleton!
• We went gardening with Mr Charlton - we loved making nests for the birds!
• We have enjoyed creating sculptures using clay. We worked hard to mould the clay into a snowy owl and penguin shape!
• In Forest Friday, we enjoyed spotting signs of winter. We loved worked together!
• We had a magical time in our Jolly Post Office, creating and writing Christmas cards to our friends and family. 
• We have loved opening up the book advent calendar ready for our Christmas themed story time! 
• We have been showing our love of numbers! We’ve worked incredibly hard on our morning task, focusing on number formation and practising how to write each number correctly. 
• We had an absolute blast gardening with Mr Charlton! We rolled up our sleeves, got our hands muddy, and loved being fully immersed in the natural world around us.
• We have been practising travelling with a ball in different directions to develop our movement skills. We showed wonderful resilience and enthusiasm!
• In PSHE, we came up with a recipe for kindness!
• We have been learning the poem Autumn Time is Coming in Storytime, enjoying joining in as we think about falling leaves and changes in autumn time!

• We have been marvellous mathematicians. Reception have explored numbers to 5, practising our careful counting and recognising numerals. Year 1 have started our learning on addition, using the part whole model to add different amounts.
• We enjoyed a PE session in the sunshine and learned the rules of duck duck goose!
• We have begun our reading journey with exciting phonics lessons, while us Year 1 Snowies have been busy writing wonderful sentences about our favourite foods.
• We have been exploring numbers to 10 by counting on and counting back. We have used number tracks to support our counting when completing our workbooks.
• We started our new topic 'The Wonderful World of Me!