The children have settled straight back into their excellent learning this week.

We have started our new topic which is animals. We began by introducing the book Dear Zoo. We then told the children the very sad news that Mr Cunningham does not want any animals to visit the school. So the children decided to write letters to him to try and convince him to let us! Children asked for cats, dogs, rabbits and chicks. Hopefully we can persuade him and have some visitors soon!

The children have also begun to learn about the different types of habitats of animals and why they like to live in particular environments. We went on a very muddy welly walk to go and collect lots of different natural objects to make our own habitats in the classroom.

On Ash Wednesday the children had a small service in our classrooms led by Mr Cunningham and Miss Keogh where the children received ashes on their foreheads and said a prayer. The children then reenacted this during their discovery time thinking about the meaning of the service.

In maths we have been focusing on positional language. When playing with your children at home please could you encourage them to use words such as on top, next to, in between, under and inside to describe the positions of different objects.

Have a lovely weekend

From the year R team.