Blog Author: Mrs Coleman Harris

Dear Parents,

As you know we work with Monster Phonics to provide the children with a fun and structured way of learning phonics.  Monster Phonics regularly provides free Parents’ webinars to help parents understand phonics.  As we enter lockdown again, we would like to invite you to…

Class 1 Home Learning Timetable Friday 8th January 

Good morning Class One, 

I am sorry I haven't seen you for a few days but I am back today to help you with your learning at home and I cannot wait to see you all!

Mr Wynn, Miss Wood and Miss Stroud have told me that you have all been…

Today we started learning about winter and we explored ice! Nursery went on an ice hunt outside and they found a huge circular piece of ice in the mud kitchen! The children then used it as an ice skating rink for the mobilo characters inside! 

We have enjoyed a super Christmas week in class one! We took part in our Christmas service, had a special visit from Santa, watched a pantomime and enjoyed lots of Christmas treats! 

Wishing all at St Mary's a very Merry Christmas!!!

With love from Care Club xxxx

Today we made Christmas pomanders! We enjoyed using our sense of smell to smell the cloves and orange.

We received some very special mail from Santa today! We opened up our letters, read them together and talked about the things we have already done this Christmas to celebrate and spend time with our families. 

We worked as a team to role play and act out the story together in teams! We used some expression, story language and performed the story to the rest of the class! We have shown great imagination and creativity today!

We enjoyed taking part in our Christingle service this morning. We talked about what the different parts of the Christingle represent and lit our Christingles together. 

Next week we will be learning the sounds th and th. We will continue to recap all of the sounds learnt so far over the next 2 weeks and play some exciting monster phonics reading games to support our reading development. After Christmas we will get ready to learn all about the long oo  sound and…

Today we have enjoyed learning more about Christingle and we created our own Christingle for our service tomorrow. We talked about what the different parts of the Christingle represent. We were all very indepedent when creating our Christingles and it was a great activity to build our fine motor…