In Class One we have been enjoying an English Main Lesson where we put all the upper case letters we learnt last term into practice by writing short sentences.

We have listened to a magical story called Sachkin Pachkin over the first weeks and it has been lovely to see the words taking form on the page with some beautiful colourful illustrations.

It is very satisfying for the children to recognize the letters and sounds from Term 1 and relate them to the letters in their names and the words we are writing in our main lesson books.

At the same time we have found out that each ‘big’ letter has a ‘little’ letter to go with it. 

Practicing crayon grip and handwriting as we see which upper case and lower case letters go together is helping to extend our understanding of letters and sounds.  You can see some of our beautiful work in the photos.

In craft we began the term with stitching a simple Mothers Day gift filled with dried herbs of Lavender, Rose Geranium, Sage and Lemon Verbena.

Then we worked towards completing our Wonderful Weaving and stitching it into recorder bags.

Our work with wool has progressed from washing, carding and wet felting the wool, to weaving, and now we are ready to knit. 

Many children have begun their first knitting project which is making a pot holder.   We had a story about a farmer out mustering the sheep for shearing.  When taking the billy off the fire he burnt his hand.  But luckily his son had a great idea in using some of the sheep’s wonderful wool to knit his dad a pot holder.

It takes a while but with the help of our knitting rhyme we are getting there!

‘In through the front door, run around the back, peep through the window and off jumps Jack’.