Spring Term 1- POP UP

This topic has a creative and literacy and story writing focus. It teaches children how to make cards using very simple mechanisms and materials. Children will learn to write, sequence and re-tell traditional fairy tales. Children will mainly focus on the story of Cinderlla. We will learning about castles and palaces. At the end of the topic there will be a Year 1 Ball where all children will dress up as princesses and princes/knights.
We will also be learning about Winter and the change in this season through The Gruffalos Child and Stick Man which are books by our Author of the term Julia Donaldson.

So far this term.. Week 3
Wow, what a busy and successful term already. Children have come back from their holidays ready to work hard and have settled straight back into school! We have been talking about winter and recapping the months of the year and sequencing them. We have started working on our fairytale topic by reading the Cinderella story and acting it out in the role play area. This week the children have written some AMAZING stories retelling the Cinderella story. I was so impressed by their efforts and story telling skills. Well done! We have also been doing lots in maths and the children have been doing multiplication and division- I am so impressed with how quickly the children have learnt these new concepts and skills. Other things we are doing in maths are-