Wednesday 29 February 2012

Book Day

Just a reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day! You may wear Pjs to School!

Para liturgy Friday at 10:30am in the Church!

Tuesday 28 February 2012

Our class!

Here are some pictures of new displays in our room!
The children made Lenten promises and wrote them on leaves. They promised to be kind, to help each other, and to share with their friends! We put our leaves on a tree!






In our role play area at the moment we have a Music Corner, full of different instruments to play, and ways to record our musical creations!




We have also got our new Rainbow Ladder. Each day the children begin on the yellow step. If they are well behaved, do good learning and are kind to others, they will move up the ladder. If they are unkind or do not follow school rules, they move down. The children are in House teams and moving up the ladder gives them house points! We have house captains to encourage and keep track of who is awarded points!





Rob the Robot

You may hear your child talk about Rob the Robot. This is a wall display that allows the children to put together letters together to try to make words. Sometimes they turn out to be nonsense words (we refer to them as silly words), but sometimes we manage to make real words! The children love playing with Rob the Robot and treat him like another member of the class



Wednesday 22 February 2012

Time

This week in St Clares we have been learning to tell the time.
We made our own clocks which we can practice with, and can now all tell the time on the hour. We can even draw the time on blank clocks. We always remember that the big hand points to 12, and the small hand points to the hour of the time.
We should now be able to start learning the time at half past as well!

I have posted a link to a blank clock to make below, so the children can practise at home!

We have been so impressed with how quickly they picked this up and how much they have enjoyed using the clocks! The have even been telling the time using the real clock in the classroom!

This is the link to make a clock;
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/clocks/clock/


Here is a picture of our Time display in class!



Our Father

As we have now learned the Hail Mary prayer, we are going to begin learning the Our Father, so we are able to join in at Mass and in Assemblies.

Both prayers are shown below incase you want to support the learning at home!

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours
now and for ever.

Amen.


Hail, Mary! Full of grace, The Lord is with thee;
Blessed are thou among women, And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners, Now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Welcome back!

Welcome to the new term!
I hope you all had a great week off!

This week the children have really enjoyed looking at the story of Cinderella. Today we wrote a wish that we would like our own Fairy Godmother to make come true! Our wishes ranged from going on holiday to Spain to being able to stay in bed all day!

In RE today we talked about Lent, and discussed what we could give up. We also thought about the people who help us in our daily lives. We realised that without our Mummy, Daddy, Grandparents, families, and friends, we wouldn't be able to do very much!

Miss Smith

Friday 10 February 2012

Classroom

Today myself, Mrs Brooker and Mrs Carmichael have created a new book reading corner in the classroom. The books are colour coded by genre and are divided into boxes! We were lucky enough to be able to buy some new books to have in class! We hope that all children, and parents who attend our Reading meetings, will enjoy using the new area! We hope the the children will be enthusiastic about books and learn to love reading!




To help foster a good attitude towards reading, we will also be starting allowing the children to choose a book from school to take home every week to read for fun! The books should encourage the children to not only explore new books and genres but also choose to read for pleasure. We will let the children have a completely free choice on the book, and they can keep the same book again, or choose it again at another time if they have enjoyed it! After all, we all have a favourite book we love to read time and time again!

Thursday 9 February 2012

Displays

The children work so hard, and enjoy celebrating their work when it is displayed in class.
I have posted pictures below of our displays to share with you.


Half term!

It's half term!
The children have had a great term of learning all about Fairy Tales and are looking forward to starting our new topic of stories from around the world!

We had another successful reading session. If you want to come to our reading sessions you will need to complete a List 99 form with Mrs Teather in the office.

Emjoy the week's rest and we look forward to seeing you on Monday 20th February.

Wednesday 8 February 2012

Hail Mary

St Clares have been learning the 'Hail Mary' prayer, and will now be able to join in with the prayer in Church and assembly. We also learned about Mary being the Mother of Jesus.

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.

Amen.

Today we also enjoyed planting cress seeds and writing instructions about how to care for them.

The children have bought their seeds home, and their homework over half term is to observe and monitor the changes as the seeds grow, and record the changes they see on their homework sheet.

Please remember tomorrow is the last day of the week (Friday is an INSET day, no School for children!)

Monday 6 February 2012

Snow!

I hope you all enjoyed playing in the snow this weekend! St Clares had a little wander through it in our wellies but most of it had melted! The children enjoyed sharing their stories of their adventures in the snow over the weekend!