Good afternoon all,
A windy welcome to you all! Funnily enough, we have had lots of huffing and puffing this week! Let me catch you up on another marvelous week! I shall begin with the 3 Little Pigs! A little known fact, 1 out of 3 are excellent builders and I have a story to prove it! Children worked extremely hard this week creating another story book about the 3 little pigs. It is not very often Mr McGill lets children write the word ‘bottom’ in a story book! However, we all learned a lesson about not climbing down chimneys. In mathematics children comprised a range of numbers using tangible objects. We even created a game in pairs where a specific amount was broken behind our backs, then one part was placed in front of us. Children then had to deduce what number remained to combine into the whole part. A game I think will be enjoyed at home, with blocks, toys or even tea spoons! Linking to our 3 Little Pigs we are in the process of designing and creating houses for our pink friends. Some children are building a house of bricks, some a house of sticks and as you can imagine some drew the short straw and had to make a house of straw. If a wolf asks, they are all made of bricks! We wanted the children to trial different materials and take part in a trial and error process to tweak and improve. I cannot wait for you all to see the houses and the stories we shall safely tuck inside these designer buildings. The children have further explored the Feeding of the 5000 and even heard about other miracles performed by Jesus. We did our very best to unpick a very tricky word ‘miracle’ we discussed what it means and why Jesus could perform them. Jesus is not ‘magic’ he is the son of God. Children showed great awareness about this and as we continue to explore these stories children are sharing brilliant ‘I wonder’ moments and asking the key, how and why questions! At the moment of writing this Bug Club show be up and running this evening, electronic gremlins always linger but speaking to the IT rep I feel confident it should be live this evening. I shall send logins to you directly via Seesaw. Your child’s account will have a username – JMcGill password – changeme and School Code – hsx3. This will allow you to access a plethora of online resources and be another brilliant resources at home to continue this love of reading. It will be a really enjoyable experience for you and your child. If you need any support with this, please let me know. On Monday I will add new books for every children and ask for your feedback. This will run parallel to our bookmark sticker system. Thank you everyone for a marvelous week and see you all Monday!
With love,
Mr McGill
